Coaching Flag for the First Time

Well, I may need to come at this from a different angle now that there's are new developments . . .

We had our league-wide flag football "kick-off" event last Saturday where the players and parents can meet the coaches and the coaches can hold a parent meeting and a the teams first practice. I got my roster and saw there was seven kids signed up for my team. We need 8 on the field. Of those 7, 6 kids showed up. A parent asked what will we do if we don't get more kids to sign up and I said we're going anyway. Hopefully the league feels they same way.

I met the coaches from the other teams in my division and one is a guy I coached with a while back who is coaching his son and the other guy is coaching his team that has been together for three years. My guys are new to flag football and several have never played organized sports before.

Also, I was counting on an assistant and now I do not have one. I asked the parents for volunteers and handed out my number in case they wanted to help out. No calls. Not that I can't handle six rookie kids, but we'll see what happens if late sign-ups bring the numbers up to the roster max of 12. It would be nice to split them up either way. Same thing for team mom. No calls.

Other than that, the parents seem okay, and being a parent myself I can see how people wouldn't want another thing on their plates.

It happens. At this point in youth sports not much surprises me. Just gotta keep moving forward with what you got! Roll with the punches.

Anyone been in a similar situation like low numbers or no assistant?