Post by coachbigelow on Jul 17, 2008 17:09:26 GMT -6
So this is kind of a weird question for other coaches out there. Being a young coach and still learning I would like to hear what other coaches generally recommend.
Here is the back story, the team has a kid who has been a starter on the offensive line since his Freshman year on the varsity team. Been offered D-1A scholarships since his sophomore year, and has been a line anchor on two straight state championship teams. Now during this time, he played basketball in addition to football.
However this past year in which he was a Junior during the basketball season his shoulder was injured and he had to have surgery. Well this surgery may have cost him his senior year to play football.
This hurts our team a lot since we have another highly touted tackle we would have paired him with on the left side of our line. We still have a good team but having these two together would have helped us a lot.
He never was going to get a scholarship in basketball and luckily the college he has committed to verbally is staying true to the scholarship offer for now. However my question is this, after the Junior Year of football in which a kid has multiple school offers do you tell the kids to not play other sports or do you let them continue playing the other sports?
Just wondering for future reference. Course they could get hurt their senior year playing football but it seems just losing a whole year without even doing the workouts right now hurts you even more. Anyway what do you coaches think?
Here is the back story, the team has a kid who has been a starter on the offensive line since his Freshman year on the varsity team. Been offered D-1A scholarships since his sophomore year, and has been a line anchor on two straight state championship teams. Now during this time, he played basketball in addition to football.
However this past year in which he was a Junior during the basketball season his shoulder was injured and he had to have surgery. Well this surgery may have cost him his senior year to play football.
This hurts our team a lot since we have another highly touted tackle we would have paired him with on the left side of our line. We still have a good team but having these two together would have helped us a lot.
He never was going to get a scholarship in basketball and luckily the college he has committed to verbally is staying true to the scholarship offer for now. However my question is this, after the Junior Year of football in which a kid has multiple school offers do you tell the kids to not play other sports or do you let them continue playing the other sports?
Just wondering for future reference. Course they could get hurt their senior year playing football but it seems just losing a whole year without even doing the workouts right now hurts you even more. Anyway what do you coaches think?
