|
Post by silkyice on Aug 1, 2011 19:14:52 GMT -6
Okay, since you apparently have ESL, let me restate: Why are your 2nd and 3rd string QBs (others?) missing an entire week of practice, including scrimmage? Church camp and vacation in Canada. One is an 8th grader and the other a 9th grader. Now find out that the kid who is supposed to play QB might miss the scrimmage for a baseball game. All of which sucks, but what can you do? Is that 4 QB's that might now miss? No problem for kid missing a scrimmage for a wedding, but it seems like you have a real problem here. What can you do? Start making stuff mandatory. That doesn't mean you kick them off the team, but at a MINIMUM, run the crap out of them. I would suspend them from a real game for missing. And if that doesn't work, then SEE YA. If this is allowed to continue, then it will just continue. What kind of program is that?
|
|
|
Post by airraider on Aug 1, 2011 22:46:32 GMT -6
Church camp and vacation in Canada. One is an 8th grader and the other a 9th grader. Now find out that the kid who is supposed to play QB might miss the scrimmage for a baseball game. All of which sucks, but what can you do? Is that 4 QB's that might now miss? No problem for kid missing a scrimmage for a wedding, but it seems like you have a real problem here. What can you do? Start making stuff mandatory. That doesn't mean you kick them off the team, but at a MINIMUM, run the crap out of them. I would suspend them from a real game for missing. And if that doesn't work, then SEE YA. If this is allowed to continue, then it will just continue. What kind of program is that? Well it was partially my fault... Last year (under another coach), they did not start until the second week of August. They did not play a fall scrimmage, and started the Monday of the jamboree. One kid, has NO choice... even saved up $1000 this summer to buy his own ticket to come home a week early.. but dad vetoed it... The other kid just moved in and will be an 8th grader... his church camp was already paid for prior to coming to the school... The other kid is a baseball prospect playing for a legion team that is playing in a regional tournament. This is the one who I think needs to get his priorities straight, but at the same time... he is a major baseball prospect, maybe that should be his priority? Not sure what to do... but dont want to paint myself into a corner with absolutes...
|
|
|
Post by blb on Aug 2, 2011 6:03:18 GMT -6
Church camp and vacation in Canada. One is an 8th grader and the other a 9th grader. Now find out that the kid who is supposed to play QB might miss the scrimmage for a baseball game. All of which sucks, but what can you do? I'm confused - are these kids on Varsity or are you coaching a lower level team? We have our Parents' Meeting in June so we can go over Calendar including when practice starts and excused vs. unexcused policy to try to avoid situations like that. We do give Freshmen more leeway than upperclassmen, however. MHSAA has rule that team must practice 14 days before first game. If a Freshman was to miss first week for example, we enforce that 14-day rule before he can play. We do not let Sophomores, Juniors, or Seniors come out after first day. If they're not there, they don't play. I can see after reading your latest post how you are a prisoner of previous expectations and circumstances this year.
|
|
|
Post by casec11 on Aug 2, 2011 8:05:20 GMT -6
Sounds like you have to bring back your 6 wide formation
|
|
|
Post by wingt74 on Aug 2, 2011 8:46:50 GMT -6
I agree with those saying can't hold it against the kid. But real quick...how many of you guys, when you were playing in H.S., would have told yer parents "nope, not going. Got a scrim" I know I would have
|
|
|
Post by airraider on Aug 2, 2011 8:47:27 GMT -6
Church camp and vacation in Canada. One is an 8th grader and the other a 9th grader. Now find out that the kid who is supposed to play QB might miss the scrimmage for a baseball game. All of which sucks, but what can you do? I'm confused - are these kids on Varsity or are you coaching a lower level team? We have our Parents' Meeting in June so we can go over Calendar including when practice starts and excused vs. unexcused policy to try to avoid situations like that. We do give Freshmen more leeway than upperclassmen, however. MHSAA has rule that team must practice 14 days before first game. If a Freshman was to miss first week for example, we enforce that 14-day rule before he can play. We do not let Sophomores, Juniors, or Seniors come out after first day. If they're not there, they don't play. I can see after reading your latest post how you are a prisoner of previous expectations and circumstances this year. Its a varsity team, but we are a very small private school in a very small private league. We have about 25 kids 10-12th and another 7 or so 8th and 9th... We dont have enough to field a JV (7th-9th in this league), so we just play our 8th and 9th graders up with varsity. Which two 9th graders will start this year... one of which started as an 8th grader last year.
|
|
|
Post by blb on Aug 2, 2011 9:22:08 GMT -6
how many of you guys, when you were playing in H.S., would have told yer parents "nope, not going. Got a scrim" I know I would have Me, too. Fortunately I was oldest of two kids. However, sister had to move her original wedding date because I was coaching a game that day, and did not accompany my wife-to-be out of town to her brother's wedding because it was Michigan-Ohio State game day.
|
|
|
Post by Yash on Aug 4, 2011 13:04:43 GMT -6
I got married this past saturday. I told my wife, July or November when we were planning it. No chance of having it during football season. We had a D coach miss our first game last year because he had to stand up in a friday night wedding. tough situations...
|
|