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Post by bigcoach38 on Sept 17, 2019 7:16:51 GMT -6
I never saw it done until recent years and hate it. Seems like a little league soccer thing that somehow has bleed through. Has nothing to do with sportsmanship or respect to me. Coach them up, if it is a serious injury do it I guess...that being said our new HC makes us do it and I shake my head every time.
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Post by blb on Sept 17, 2019 7:23:26 GMT -6
Went to a HS JV game couple weeks ago.
Before it started PA guy read announcement, apparently from state association, that teams would not be taking a knee during injury timeouts.
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Post by coachd5085 on Sept 17, 2019 17:53:40 GMT -6
Went to a HS JV game couple weeks ago. Before it started PA guy read announcement, apparently from state association, that teams would not be taking a knee during injury timeouts. Genius. Seems like that might be the smartest thing ever done by a state association.
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Post by cqmiller on Sept 17, 2019 20:17:02 GMT -6
I hate it... use it as a timeout. Had a parent of one of my players screaming from the stands that my kids need to take a knee when the other team's player had a cramp and I had them come over to the sideline. I never see college teams doing anything like that unless it is a REALLY bad injury. Update... had a parent email me again (now 8 years after I posted this) asking "why don't we take a knee during an injury?" Driving me nuts these soft-ass people.
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Post by edcubby on Sept 25, 2019 17:20:32 GMT -6
This is hilarious...I hate it!!!!
It has carried up from youth football. I never saw it until about 6 or 7 years ago.
It treats every injury like the kid is dying and I’ve told my players to “stand up, it’s a cramp for God’s sake.”
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Post by huddlehut on Sept 25, 2019 17:51:32 GMT -6
I'm a MS/HS football official. I've never understood the kneeling...but now days I hear coaches making their players - even the ones on the sideline - take a knee anytime a player is down. Makes absolutely no sense. Guess these young coaches grew up doing it and it's now being fed to the next generation.
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Post by newhope on Oct 4, 2019 7:53:13 GMT -6
For the first time ever, I'm getting questions about this. Some youth football thing that now moms think we're supposed to do. We'll kneel for a really bad injury. We're not kneeling for every cramp, bump, bruise and what not. Heck, we've got one JV kid we'd be kneeling for several times a game.
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Post by coachd5085 on Oct 4, 2019 8:20:11 GMT -6
I would tell the parents that kneeling actually isn't the best position for their kids to be in, as it could lead to their own athlete cramping up
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Post by fantom on Oct 4, 2019 8:34:30 GMT -6
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Post by cqmiller on Oct 4, 2019 9:54:57 GMT -6
fantomAgreed, but so many parents yell things or send emails about it, it drives me insane. We dress 25 kids this year against teams who usually dress 100+. I have 4 seniors, our best player got lost for the season after a devastating hit week 3 and won't play for the rest of the season. 6 freshman and 6 sophomores dress varsity and start for us on one side of the ball or the other, and I have parents emailing me and are wondering "why do you have the players come to the sideline and circle around you instead of take a knee when someone is injured?" I'm trying to get your 14 year old kid to focus on his job and coach him up rather than have him take a knee, risk cramping, and mentally focus on the fact that he is probably the next one to get injured when he has to go out there against an 18 year old senior for the next 20 snaps.
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Post by fantom on Oct 4, 2019 9:57:48 GMT -6
fantom Agreed, but so many parents yell things or send emails about it, it drives me insane. We dress 25 kids this year against teams who usually dress 100+. I have 4 seniors, our best player got lost for the season after a devastating hit week 3 and won't play for the rest of the season. 6 freshman and 6 sophomores dress varsity and start for us on one side of the ball or the other, and I have parents emailing me and are wondering "why do you have the players come to the sideline and circle around you instead of take a knee when someone is injured?" I'm trying to get your 14 year old kid to focus on his job and coach him up rather than have him take a knee, risk cramping, and mentally focus on the fact that he is probably the next one to get injured when he has to go out there against an 18 year old senior for the next 20 snaps. Actually, I deleted it because I posted it in the wrong thread.
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Post by cqmiller on Oct 4, 2019 9:59:30 GMT -6
Must have done it while I was responding... lol.
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