prossi
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Post by prossi on Apr 13, 2009 19:07:00 GMT -6
Looking to start a travel/ feeder team in illinois. Which is the best league? Is it better than house ball? Is it worth the hassle? Meeting allot of resistance with local house ball league. How involved can H.S. coaches get, what are limits. Thoughts?
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Post by davecisar on Apr 13, 2009 19:32:06 GMT -6
Pop Warner has very restrictive weights, the big kids wont be able to play, but well organized group. AYF used to be very similar to PW but now has unlimited in some areas. In House is often not very competitive, depends on the league. There are more independent unlimited leagues than PW and AYF combined, quality varies some are very competitive and very well run some arent. You have to do a bunch of research.
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Post by justryn2 on Apr 14, 2009 5:57:14 GMT -6
Hi Prossi, where in Illinois are you? There is a great league here in northeastern Illinois, TCYFL. Check out the website at www.tcyfl.net. Feel free to PM me if you want more info. |
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Post by Block_n_Tackle on Apr 14, 2009 16:24:00 GMT -6
Yes, where at in Illinois
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prossi
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Post by prossi on Apr 15, 2009 7:48:02 GMT -6
We are near ohare airport 4a school looking to start up a program. thanks for the help.
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Post by bobgoodman on Apr 16, 2009 6:53:27 GMT -6
What's house ball? Is that where they first organize a league and sign up players, then choose up sides?
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Post by darebelcoach on Apr 16, 2009 9:57:24 GMT -6
I coach with PRossi....house ball, at least out by us, is basically an in-house league, where they have kids sign up, "draft" them to 4 teams, and those 4 teams play each other, over and over again, for like 10 weeks.....basically there is little competition for th ekids to get better in a "house league"
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Post by bobgoodman on Apr 16, 2009 21:40:44 GMT -6
I coach with PRossi....house ball, at least out by us, is basically an in-house league, where they have kids sign up, "draft" them to 4 teams, and those 4 teams play each other, over and over again, for like 10 weeks.....basically there is little competition for th ekids to get better in a "house league" Why? Does the psychology of having few teams work against their competitive spirit? Or do you mean that there's little competition at the top? Seems to me that in a league with more teams, you might get more competitive, but only among the top couple of teams, and maybe the bottom two as well. On avg., from bottom to top, I don't see why there'd be less incentive to improve their game if you had 4 teams playing triple round robin than if you had 10 teams playing single round robin, especially if the draft is good enough to keep the competition close. |
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Post by darebelcoach on Apr 17, 2009 7:15:49 GMT -6
Well, the way we see it at our park district "in-house" league is like this....there are 4 teams, that play each other week after week....1 of the teams is usually stacked with the best players where as the other 3 teams are quite far below in talent....so if I am the top team and I am playing the worst team 3 times, how does that make either of those teams better? The better team is going to get inflated egos, not have to perform to perfection to beat the guy across from them....the bad team is going to realize they get their tails kicked every time they play tese guys and that too will wear on their minds and bodies.....now, it might not be like that everywhere, but the teams our park district puts together is like that...where as a true feeder team, the kids are playing together for 2 or 3 years, learning the same terminology, fundamentals, etc and traveling and playing different types of teams.....
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Post by bobgoodman on Apr 17, 2009 21:53:04 GMT -6
Well, the way we see it at our park district "in-house" league is like this....there are 4 teams, that play each other week after week....1 of the teams is usually stacked with the best players Deliberately? Why? How? |
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Post by coachgelb on May 14, 2009 13:19:25 GMT -6
Here is the link to a chicago based AYF conference.www.chicagolandayf.com They send teams to the nationals every year.
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