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Post by tim914790 on Feb 16, 2009 15:44:29 GMT -6
Guys where I am you can only play one sport per season. Way before my time you could play two. For Example we could have a kicker who played soccer as his main sport and kicked on friday nights for the football team. I am not sure the rules on how much playing time you could have from primary sport to secondary sport. But please let me know any experiences you have had with this.
Thanks
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Post by k on Feb 16, 2009 16:10:26 GMT -6
I don't know why anyone would ever want to let someone play friday night who didn't show the rest of the week.
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Post by redandwhite on Feb 16, 2009 16:30:04 GMT -6
We have worked well with our soccer program with our kickers. As long as the kid is good at communicating with both coaches, and the coaches communicate well with each other and the kicker, it is fairly easy to do. We just make sure that we plan our special teams segments when the kicker can be available. It would never work if the kid just showed up on Friday.Our current kicker will be a senior, and after just one year as a football kicker, probably has a better shot at playing college football than college soccer.
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Post by tim914790 on Feb 16, 2009 17:12:27 GMT -6
Sorry I should have clairified more but as neve rhaving the opportunity to do this I didnt look at the big picture. I assumed the communication would be there between both coaches and I would never attempt to do this with an every down player. I think getting the kicker 2-3 times per week would be plenty it it may force a staff to be more organized and prepared for special teams practice. It has been my experience that ST is kind of a laxed period at times and if you had a time where you know we have to work it now or you cant then everyone would be focuesed.
It just kills me that I had a kid in PE class for 3 years that would ask me to take him out to kick field golas and kick off in the spring he was banging 50-55 yard field goals and a nice high end over end kick into the end zone from kick off with ease. Of course it is differnet with pads on and a rush coming but still was very impressive. The kid wanted to play but would only do it if he could still play soccer.
PS it did not help that his baseball coach was telling him not to play. But thats a whole different thread.
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Post by touchdowng on Feb 16, 2009 17:34:32 GMT -6
We have a policy in our state's association that athletes must make the majority of the practice time and cannot on a regular basis leave early.
This makes it easy. "If you want to kick for our program tell your select soccer coach that you will be late to his practices and if he can live with it, great! If not, he can contact me and I'll explain the rule to him." In the past 15 years all but one of my kickers was a Fall select soccer player and all 9 or 10 of them came to all of our football practices.
I've yet to have one conversation with a soccer coach regarding our practice expectations. My kids plays select soccer and so far their coaches have been good guys who want kids to do more than just kick a ball. Sometimes kids will use soccer or other activities as their excuse.
Incidentally, we did have a select baseball coach who actually had his players sign a contract that promised that they would ONLY play baseball. This was a problem for me since his baseball season went from March through October. Once our district AD got wind of this, the baseball program was scheduled OFF of our fields. The baseball coach changed his tune real fast once he knew what he was up against.
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Post by outlawjoseywales on Feb 16, 2009 18:14:11 GMT -6
In Florida football is over before Soccer starts, our last couple of weeks the soccer boys are over there starting their preseason practices.
We also don't have any rules to how many sports you can play.
The only other Fall sport for men is Cross Country.
I have a number of kids who play three varsity sports-Football, Basketball and Baseball. However, I personally ask parents to limit their kids to two.
I like my receivers and DB's to play soccer, that really helps them in conditioning.
Baseball doesn't really help anybody but the QB's.
Basketball seems to not really be as much of an advantage to us as you might think.
Anyway, JMHO, which isn't worth much.
OJW
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2009 18:20:21 GMT -6
In IL, soccer and football seasons run at the same time. However, I coached at one school where we had a soccer player on the football team. He showed up every Monday for practice (we did full pads, full practice on Monday) and for special teams on Thursdays and of course every game. Worked great for us and the kids were very supportive of it; in fact it was there idea that he be a part of our team!!!
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Post by kcbazooka on Feb 16, 2009 18:39:51 GMT -6
I think it can work out - had a cross country kid who wanted to play football. He never missed a practice and did his running workout either before school or after football practice. We ended up not being in the playoff picture so I told him I would hold him out of our last game as the next day was the district cross country championship. He didn't want to so I let him play the last game but limited his time on the field. He nd his family were grateful for giving him a chance to play.
It helped that I was a track assistant and good friends with the cross country coaches - thought it helped helped all three programs fb, xc and track.
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