re: Parents who can't handle their kids getting cut

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not really just seen multiple comments, couple from you, about this being some weird thing.

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I don't even know how to search for whatever I may have said about young kids lifting weights, don't really give a shite but every time there's a thread about kids sports you are all up in arms with a big knot in your panties and have zero nose for sarcasm or humor, lighten the frick up Francis!!!

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I don't even know how to search for whatever I may have said about young kids lifting weights, don't really give a shite but every time there's a thread about kids sports you are all up in arms with a big knot in your panties and have zero nose for sarcasm or humor, lighten the frick up Francis!!!

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promise im not wound up tight, its just hard to tell sarcasm or humor between the horrible takes and advice. :cheers:

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A lot of these 6th graders are travel ball kids who have never been cut from anything before. They are upset... which I understand

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I don't understand it. 6th grade? Of course the older kids will get preference.

Do they not have after school teams the kids could go to, so they could build upon their skills?

There is nothing wrong going to another team and working on your skills for the next years try outs.

We all did this.
I was ok in 6th grade as a lineman, but not good enough to play with 7th and 8 graders.
Went to a team that was not as good. Our coach was a former NFL linemen.
I was able to learn from him and very grateful for giving me the chance to play on his team. I learned how to properly block down field, pull as a guard to knock the DE on the ground, and read what the defense was doing. If I did not go to another team I would not have picked up these skills or had practice to hone my skills. We even played the team I got cut from and bruised up a guy pretty good by the 3rd quarter that was old than me.

The next year I passed up 8th graders and started on the team as a 7th grader.

It takes hard work especially these days if you want to play on school teams.

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I can’t imagine the parents if my son plays HS soccer this year…there were tryouts and practice…and there’ll be games before he’s cleared from football. If goes out there and starts I may get shanked.

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I played football, basketball, and baseball in hs and that was the case my junior and senior years, go straight from one sport to starting in another, back then the coaches just tried to field the best team, I even did a few track events, absolutely no practice

The difference in a 6th grader and a 7th grader is big, but from 6th to 8th, there is night and day difference.

My kid is in 8th now, he is faster, stronger, tougher, more agile, and just a whole lot better than in 8th.

There would be no reason to be upset if your 6th grader didnt make the team.

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Turned lemonade into lemonade

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pretty damn tough to do, congrats!

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There would be no reason to be upset if your 6th grader didnt make the team.

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True.. In fact, the gauntlet is good for them.

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I hear a lot of 'put in the work' stories,

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a lot is genetics and technique, I was a pretty good athlete as was my dad and his brothers, dad was a sprinter, has/had a few records at LSU, he came home from work one day and a few of us were playing a little pickup football game, I was trash talking about my speed and my dad(in a suit and tie and dress shoes,) said "you aren't that fast because you really don't have good running technique" smartass me, "oh yeah, sure" he has us line up and race(I'm in cleats,) for about 50 yards, he absolutely smoked me and he was 45 and I was 17, after that I asked him to show me more of this technique stuff

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We had a 6th grade team and a 7th/8th grade team when I was in middle school. Not having a team at all for 6th graders is pretty stupid. For one, they're like 12, they should still have a place to play even if they suck. Two, a lot of those kids could develop a little later and having one less year playing is going to hurt the high school team they feed into.

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My son is on the 5th/6th grade team this year. They have it set up like that. And at that age, they're still very much learning. You're exactly right though. That's how it should be. To expect a 10 year old to beat out a 13 year old is retarded.


I worked with a guy who had a son that started playing football in the 9th grade. He just retired from the NFL and is a millionaire many times over. I wonder how many of the little hot shot travel ball kids are making what he made?