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re: ULL Coach Robichaux discusses "Daddy Ball"
Posted on 3/29/17 at 1:51 pm to Jimmy2shoes
Posted on 3/29/17 at 1:51 pm to Jimmy2shoes
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Daddy Ball” in his opinion paints an unrealistic picture of how baseball, sports and basically life really works.
Our Jr High football team was like this. One of the parents coached, so their kid and his friends all played and they ended up benching some pretty enthusiastic kids. After one season half the team quit. High school ball subsequently suffered, and only a handful of people in each class ended up playing. The Jr High coach's kid didn't grow as much as he expected and ended up quitting his first year under the High School coach.
At that age, some of the kids are still growing and lack coordination. They are there to have fun and develop. A skinny but enthusiastic player in 7th grade may end up being a really valuable resource in 10th, 11th, and 12th grade.
Baseball and Soccer teams at the school took the opposite approach and actually ended up with big, competitive teams as the players developed. They generated revenue and ended up with a pretty committed team.
I played all three and I can say that football didn't really become fun until Junior year. I had a blast playing Soccer and Baseball. I would have played basketball too if not for the schedule conflicts. One of my teammates that didn't play a single down in 7th and 8th grade ended up playing in college.
This post was edited on 3/29/17 at 1:55 pm
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Posted on 3/29/17 at 1:57 pm to member12
My high school baseball coach was an arse
Pretty much all the helicopter parents had relationships with him. So shitty players would make the team over more deserving players just because their parents had a good relationship with the coach. You know the types of parents who would go to the coach and pressure him and say "MY BOY HE PLAYED SELECT ON THIS TEAM AND THAT TEAM AND THIS TEAM FOR THE LAST 8 YEARS AND BOY IS HE GOOD NO WAY YOU CAN NOT TAKE HIM FOR YOUR TEAM" even though the kid was arse in tryouts.
Stacked deck. The coach even tried to implement a rule that you had to play select ball to even tryout for the team, and it got vetoed by the school board since a large percentage of our students came from disadvantaged households who could not afford it.
Pretty much all the helicopter parents had relationships with him. So shitty players would make the team over more deserving players just because their parents had a good relationship with the coach. You know the types of parents who would go to the coach and pressure him and say "MY BOY HE PLAYED SELECT ON THIS TEAM AND THAT TEAM AND THIS TEAM FOR THE LAST 8 YEARS AND BOY IS HE GOOD NO WAY YOU CAN NOT TAKE HIM FOR YOUR TEAM" even though the kid was arse in tryouts.
Stacked deck. The coach even tried to implement a rule that you had to play select ball to even tryout for the team, and it got vetoed by the school board since a large percentage of our students came from disadvantaged households who could not afford it.
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