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Post by utchuckd on Oct 3, 2010 8:09:26 GMT -6
So our elementary basketball league had it's season opening tournament this weekend. It's the local county 5th-6th grade league. They like to have it wrapped up by Christmas, and since there are no other fall sports for those grades they just go ahead and start it. We had guys miss Thursdays practice for b-ball games. That's basketball in September! So we're gonna be working around b-ball games and practices from here on out. Our HC wants to not make a big deal about it and as long as they only miss for an actual b-ball game not worry about it too much. I, on the other hand, would like to say its still freakin football season and you need to be on the football field.
We bend over backwards to accommodate every body else enough. Usually there's a little overlap between sports at the end of the season, and at those times I don't have a problem working with them, but we still have 3 games and the playoffs to go. Way too early, imo.
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Post by bobgoodman on Oct 3, 2010 11:57:45 GMT -6
So our elementary basketball league had it's season opening tournament this weekend. It's the local county 5th-6th grade league. They like to have it wrapped up by Christmas, and since there are no other fall sports for those grades they just go ahead and start it. Are you sure it's that, or could it be the only time they can get courts & officials? What sports do those grades have in the winter? Of course all we had for outdoor sports in 5th & 6th grades (or any other grades at P.S. 108), weather permitting, were punchball and rope skipping, plus other occasional exotica the teachers made up, in the schoolyard. Indoors, just calisthenics/gymnastics & dancing/marching. I have a vague recollection I might be making up right now that they once tried to get up an extramural punchball match with another school. |
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Post by utchuckd on Oct 3, 2010 17:15:49 GMT -6
Considering I've lived here 34 of my 38 years, yeah, I'm pretty sure it's that. Seeing as how each school has it's own gym, and the officials are the same guys that have been doing it for the last 20 years, that's not the problem.
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Post by bobgoodman on Oct 3, 2010 18:40:33 GMT -6
So what do they do in the winter?
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Post by bigdog2003 on Oct 5, 2010 9:41:52 GMT -6
I had 3 kids on my baseball team last summer miss games to play basketball in may. Had to forfeit one of the games
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Post by mhcoach on Oct 5, 2010 10:04:46 GMT -6
Coaches
This is why we see so few 3 sport athletes anymore. Basketball, Soccer, Baseball, LAX, & other sports play virtually year round. We football coaches get restricted as to our practice time, when we can put on pads, how many games a season, etc. Players younger & younger are asked to make a choice. How does a third grader know how his body will grow? Most HS coaches frown on their fottball players playing other sports, I always encouraged it( except perhaps a QB). I loved when my Dlinemen would play LAX, it made them quicker & tougher. I encouraged my RB's & LB's to play rugby. IMHO it has gotten way out of hand.
Joe
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Post by daveinsarasota on Oct 5, 2010 10:36:58 GMT -6
I noticed that as well...it seems like most kids are playing 2 sports as most. For us growing up, it was the big three...baseball, football, and basketball...
My kids chose basketball and football. It is getting ridiculous. These parents think that by submersing their kid in one sport, it is going to get them a scholarship, or even a professional career.
If they have it, they have it...but in most sports, you are required certain tangibles. And if you do not possess those tanglibles...you are required to have an extraoridinary array of INtangibles. The tangibles are God given...and to be honest, so are the intangibles.
We just do our best, as youth coaches to teach fundamentals, so that those kids not so blessed, can have a productive youth and high school football career... I wish parents could comprehend that.
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Post by newb on Oct 5, 2010 21:04:07 GMT -6
Around here it's not so much basketball but soccer. At the MS level, our 3 best athletes all play in a soccer league on the weekends and it's ruining their bodies. We practice Mon-Wed, game on Thursday, light practice on Friday and then the kids get the weekend to rest up. Except that these kids play 2 soccer games on Saturday, 1 on Sunday, and then strap it up again to begin another week. We're now in week 6 and all 3 players have had nagging injuries, 1 hip flexor since week 1, 1 ankle since week 2, and 1 knee since week 2. There was one weekend where they had the full 2 days to rest up because they didn't have any soccer games and it was like a miracle. Not one of them was injured anymore except after the next weekend when they had games.  We've already talked to the parents about why it's not a good idea but they're all in it together (kids are all on the same team) and continue to let the kids play. I've spoken to all 3 kids on numerous occasions and just now learned that during bball season they will all be playing in an indoor soccer league. 2 of the kids say when they get to HS they will not be playing soccer no questions asked while the 3rd is a little unsure. So I asked the 2 who say they will give it up why they continue to punish their bodies like this for a sport they won't even play in a couple years and they all say, because it's fun.  |
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Post by bobgoodman on Oct 6, 2010 9:02:59 GMT -6
So I asked the 2 who say they will give it up why they continue to punish their bodies like this for a sport they won't even play in a couple years and they all say, because it's fun. Winner! Everybody's going to give everything up eventually, many knowing when that will be, so why'd they play it the 2 years before they knew they'd be finished? Same reason as everyone, unless they're getting paid: fun. |
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We've already talked to the parents about why it's not a good idea but they're all in it together (kids are all on the same team) and continue to let the kids play. 