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Post by raider92 on Feb 1, 2018 17:27:06 GMT -6
What kind of attendance policies are you guys using? A former school of mine had a policy that if you missed 1 Day of practice for any reason you missed a quarter that week, miss 2 practices in a week and you don't play Friday. This also applied to injuries. What kind of procedures do you use to keep track of attendance?
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Post by cqmiller on Feb 1, 2018 17:32:37 GMT -6
We only practice 3 days each week. (Sub-Varsity is on Thu here and your 2s on varsity are your starters on JV)
If they miss a practice, what good are they? If they are sick, injured, etc... they still have to come and at least learn the schemes and gameplan.
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Post by CoachDP on Feb 1, 2018 22:37:40 GMT -6
With us during game week, if you miss one practice that week, you sit for one quarter. If you miss two practices that week, you sit for one half. If you miss three practices that week, you sit for the game. We don't have excused or unexcused absences. We just allow 6 absences during the season before you turn in your gear.
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Post by agap on Feb 1, 2018 22:51:02 GMT -6
We did the same as others have mentioned. If you miss one practice, you sit for one quarter and so on. After one season, players didn't miss practice real often.
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Post by chi5hi on Feb 1, 2018 22:52:13 GMT -6
Some absences or tardies are allowed.
On occasion a kid has a dental or vision appointment...we encourage them to schedule those appointments after school hours because, being a private school, academics are priority.
We also make allowances for after school tutoring which results in being tardy.
Anything else is deemed to be unapproved and results in removal from the week's game roster.
As for injuries and not dressing out, this is the decision of the doctor and team trainer, but we expect the player to be at practice.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 1, 2018 23:10:18 GMT -6
With us during game week, if you miss one practice that week, you sit for one quarter. If you miss two practices that week, you sit for one half. If you miss three practices that week, you sit for the game. We don't have excused or unexcused absences. We just allow 6 absences during the season before you turn in your gear. Don’t have excused or unexcused. So if a kid gets the flu and misses a week and sick one other time for one day, he is off the team? I am guessing/hoping I am misreading that.
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Post by 19delta on Feb 1, 2018 23:29:54 GMT -6
What kind of attendance policies are you guys using? A former school of mine had a policy that if you missed 1 Day of practice for any reason you missed a quarter that week, miss 2 practices in a week and you don't play Friday. This also applied to injuries. What kind of procedures do you use to keep track of attendance? This is probably fairly common and pretty much how my high school team operated. Of course, my high school varsity team had 70 juniors and seniors so there was intense competition at most spots. If a guy missed practice and his backup got the reps that day, it could be very difficult for the guy who missed practice to earn his spot back. I now live in a rural area and few varsity programs have more than 25 juniors and seniors. Typically, any attendance policy is going to need a little more wiggle room as a result.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Feb 1, 2018 23:44:59 GMT -6
We used to have a set policy and kids kept finding ways to compromise it and make us reword it. So now our head coach beats it to death year round with our parents that practice is mandatory and he excuses it if parents let him know in advance (talking at least a week ahead of time).
To be honest I can’t remember the last time a key player missed practice during a game week without prior notice. Maybe 2014 on Labor Day. The only kids that miss during the season in recent years are the turds.
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Post by ccox16 on Feb 2, 2018 6:22:35 GMT -6
no practice = no play. If they are unable to practice due to injury or being sick then they aren't going to be fully healthy for the game on Friday.
We've found that it has cut down drastically on absences. Them and their parents don't even argue it anymore.
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Post by Defcord on Feb 2, 2018 6:31:29 GMT -6
I have been part of policies like most of you guys describe. If you can't practice it results in lack of preparation for game, so you will see limited time.
The last baseball coach I worked for put in his attendance policy a "late notice" policy. I thought it was pretty interesting. If you have to make up a test and you text him 15 minutes before practice the day off that is considered unexcused tardy because you knew about it before that and didn't take responsibility. I liked the policy in addition to attendance because I have seen a ton of coaches frustrated by kids giving late notice for a legitimate reason when they could have let the coach know in advance so he could have made adjustments to practice script and not been surprised last minute.
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Post by fballcoach12 on Feb 2, 2018 8:34:23 GMT -6
If a player misses a practice without prior communication (excluding obvious scenarios that would prohibit it, car accident on the way) they are immediately removed from the program. I don't miss work without communicating with my supervisor and this teacher our players the same lesson.
We have a player miss about once every 4 years.
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Post by silkyice on Feb 2, 2018 9:17:49 GMT -6
If a player misses a practice without prior communication (excluding obvious scenarios that would prohibit it, car accident on the way) they are immediately removed from the program. I don't miss work without communicating with my supervisor and this teacher our players the same lesson. We have a player miss about once every 4 years. WOW! Would you get fired if you just one time were so sick that you overslept and didn't let your boss know until 8:01am that you were going to miss? I'm all for holding kids accountable and teaching lessons, but this just seems extreme. That being said, I can't remember a time when a kid missed practice and I didn't know beforehand, but if it happened, I don't think my reaction to it would be to kick him off the team.
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Post by Hitch & Pitch on Feb 2, 2018 9:34:53 GMT -6
I have a thing called Four Squares, Lunge walk 50 Yards, bear crawl 50, run five hit your belly 50 yards, backwards run 50.
If you have an excused absence meaning you notified me prior to lunchtime of your absence, you do two squares. Playing time is not guaranteed, if I like the effort from the kid that replaced you I may start him. A guy I coached with several years ago had a motto "don't let your backup on the field"...
If you do not notify me you do five squares. If you miss two days in a week you will not play that week.
If a kid is a frequent absentee, I will warn the player, his parent, and my administration, johnny is on their last chance next violation he's gone. I probably have to get rid of 2 or 3 kids a year, but very rarely are they major factors on the team...
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Post by newhope on Feb 2, 2018 11:02:34 GMT -6
If you miss without telling me, you're not playing that week and you're running. Do it again, and you're done. Other absences depend on WHY you're absent. I'm not going to punish a kid (and the rest of the team) because someone had to grandma's funeral. I am going to sit him for going to see his sister in a play. Was the absence unavoidable? Was the kid choosing to put something else above the team or was it beyond his control? Hard and fast rules have their place, but common sense, gentlemen, common sense. Why punish a kid when he did nothing wrong? Why punish his teammates? Why cause problems for yourself? "It's a rule" just doesn't cut it when the kid is not in any way at fault. Life happens
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Post by fballcoach12 on Feb 6, 2018 8:37:57 GMT -6
I've never been so sick that I've slept through an entire day of work without being able to communicate. Our policy states that the player may be dismissed (5 times this has occurred over a 20 year period), but we do have discretion for situations outside of a player's control. It is not a standard to punish players for when they can not communicate, it's a standard to eliminate players missing practice and making excuses. Maybe it is too strict, but it's amazing, when you have a standard and stick by it, all of a sudden people will attain it.
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Post by fshamrock on Feb 6, 2018 9:26:17 GMT -6
Injuries I'm a little bit more sympathetic and its a case by case thing. I once had an all state kid (awesome kid too) who towards the end of the season wasn't practicing full speed ever, had a tricky back that would flare up on him, so he sat for most contact drills as well as team. Had a sophomore kid that took all those reps, so one day he says he's got a pretty good bruise in the thigh and needs to go easy that day, convo went like this: "coach I gotta go easy today with this bruise on my thigh" "go easy all you want but plan on playing JV or not at all" "but Randy takes it easy every day because of his back" "last week randy had 14 solo's and a strip sack in the 4th quarter, if you want to get the benefit of the doubt make freaking plays on Friday night"
.....that's probably a little to real for some but I get tired of teenagers expecting the world to hand them the same chit as other guy when they don't produce half as much
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