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Post by **** on Apr 4, 2016 11:42:04 GMT -6
You think its okay if 66% of your players quit their senior year? One of us read the OP wrong. I thought he meant two or three, not two-thirds. nltdiego
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Post by nltdiego on Apr 4, 2016 12:22:23 GMT -6
2 or 3.... If it was 2/3 I would probably be out of a job lol. Sorry for the confusion.
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Post by silkyice on Apr 4, 2016 12:29:04 GMT -6
2 or 3.... If it was 2/3 I would probably be out of a job lol. Sorry for the confusion. Ok. Changes everything. I read it wrong to begin with. Could actually be for the best. But even if not, I wouldn't sweat 2 or 3.
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Post by dytmook on Apr 4, 2016 12:45:41 GMT -6
I can think of one 3 year kid that quit before his senior year. He/his parents said he didn't get a chance to start because of xyz...well the kid was absent for most of the summer in Alaska with his family and came back fat. He did no work over the summer and it showed when he returned. he couldn't catch up and was an average JV player that year. Of course his mom still referred to him as her baby so yeah....
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Post by Chris Clement on Apr 4, 2016 18:35:57 GMT -6
Losing two or three out of say 20 seniors is nothing, it's just regular wastage.
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Post by coachbdud on Apr 4, 2016 21:57:18 GMT -6
a few is normal... if it is a ton then there is something driving them away
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Post by tothehouse on Apr 4, 2016 22:54:09 GMT -6
What about when a senior quits during a game.
We were playing a much superior opponent and 2 of the players in front of this guy got hurt. I said, "Joe (his real name). Time for you to go in at FS."
He says "why?". I said..."___ has cramps and _____ just got hurt. Need you in there".
First, and hopefully, only time a kid has said, "I'm not going in there".
At the time we sort of platooned some kids and this guy was only a defensive player. When he said, "I'm not going in there." I grabbed him...and we walked down to the HC and I said, "Joe will not be playing another down of defense the whole year. Hopefully he's got somewhere to play on offense".
And I stuck to my guns. I didn't even let Joe play scout team D. He basically was banished from my existence. And...I still don't talk to him...even after he has graduated.
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Post by John Knight on Apr 5, 2016 4:28:19 GMT -6
Had one of those tothehouse. He knows I know!
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Post by fantom on Apr 5, 2016 6:35:38 GMT -6
What about when a senior quits during a game. We were playing a much superior opponent and 2 of the players in front of this guy got hurt. I said, "Joe (his real name). Time for you to go in at FS." He says "why?". I said..."___ has cramps and _____ just got hurt. Need you in there". First, and hopefully, only time a kid has said, "I'm not going in there". At the time we sort of platooned some kids and this guy was only a defensive player. When he said, "I'm not going in there." I grabbed him...and we walked down to the HC and I said, "Joe will not be playing another down of defense the whole year. Hopefully he's got somewhere to play on offense". And I stuck to my guns. I didn't even let Joe play scout team D. He basically was banished from my existence. And...I still don't talk to him...even after he has graduated. We had a first year senior who wouldn't go into a game once but the circumstances were entirely different. He was a weight room guy-they called him "Big Swole" because he was always flexing- who, for some reason didn't come out for football until he was a senior. Late in a blowout win the DL coach tried to put him in and the kid started hyperventilating. Said he couldn't go in because he was having a heart attack. Turned out to be a panic attack. Later in the season he went missing for three weeks. When he came back he said that he'd been in the hospital with Mersa which, of course, got us concerned. The real story: His parents took him to the ER with a blister. The ER doc told him to keep in clean so that it didn't get infected OR EVEN become Mersa. Mom kept him home from school until it healed. Did we kick him off the team for missing all that time? And lose that entertainment value?
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Post by rosey65 on Apr 5, 2016 6:52:07 GMT -6
What about when a senior quits during a game. We were playing a much superior opponent and 2 of the players in front of this guy got hurt. I said, "Joe (his real name). Time for you to go in at FS." He says "why?". I said..."___ has cramps and _____ just got hurt. Need you in there". First, and hopefully, only time a kid has said, "I'm not going in there". At the time we sort of platooned some kids and this guy was only a defensive player. When he said, "I'm not going in there." I grabbed him...and we walked down to the HC and I said, "Joe will not be playing another down of defense the whole year. Hopefully he's got somewhere to play on offense". And I stuck to my guns. I didn't even let Joe play scout team D. He basically was banished from my existence. And...I still don't talk to him...even after he has graduated. We had a first year senior who wouldn't go into a game once but the circumstances were entirely different. He was a weight room guy-they called him "Big Swole" because he was always flexing- who, for some reason didn't come out for football until he was a senior. Late in a blowout win the DL coach tried to put him in and the kid started hyperventilating. Said he couldn't go in because he was having a heart attack. Turned out to be a panic attack. Later in the season he went missing for three weeks. When he came back he said that he'd been in the hospital with Mersa which, of course, got us concerned. The real story: His parents took him to the ER with a blister. The ER doc told him to keep in clean so that it didn't get infected OR EVEN become Mersa. Mom kept him home from school until it healed. Did we kick him off the team for missing all that time? And lose that entertainment value? HAHA!! Definitely keep those kids around! Those are the fun ones. One of my favorite OL was a back-up a few years ago. I was going to put him in late in a blowout, he says "nah, its cool, coach, put __billy__ in, his parents are here." The OL's dad was a HC at a neighboring school, and the kid only played to satisfy pops. He was at practice every day, did what he was supposed to do in practice, and never once wanted to work hard enough to see the field. Nothing says kids have to fight for, or even want to, be in games. The only time I get pissed is when the kids shirk during practice, and then cry when they dont play.
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