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Post by bigdog2003 on Jan 6, 2009 11:41:17 GMT -6
Would it be right for me as a middle school assistant to talk to kids that will be in the seventh grade next year when I am working for the recreation department during baseball season. The reason I ask is because they can still play rec ball, its non affiliated, at that age. I think that by seeing this kids, I have been watching them play baseball at work since they were 9 I have an idea of who could help the MS team and who should play rec ball. Would it be ok to talk to parents to tell them that their son would be a good player for the school team. By the way I am a volunteer at the MS, or should I not talk to them.
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Post by touchdownmaker on Jan 6, 2009 17:42:18 GMT -6
It would be wrong not to talk to them.
Hey maybe the rec ball coaches are bad mouthing you to try and keep them from moving up anyhow ha ha. Never know.
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Post by los on Jan 6, 2009 21:15:04 GMT -6
Nothing wrong with telling the kids or their parents, that the kid is a good enough athlete to play on the schools football team......I'd actually take this concept a step further and try to establish a working relationship with the youth football coach's, in this reguard.....I was a youth coach and had a great relationship with our schools jr. high coach's.....(while in theory) any kids in the in the 6th thru 8th grades could play for the schools jr. high team.....(in the cold reality of kids failing a grade or two and playing against some pretty old/big/mean 8th graders, lol)...their coach's preferred all 6th and most of the 7th graders play with us, to get more playing time and experience.....our league's age limit was "under 13 by sept 1st", so no 8th graders.....the main advantage(for the jr. high team) I could see, in this arrangement, was they had a more manageable sized team of mainly 8th graders, with a few exceptional 7th graders.....more efficient practices, and not a bunch of guys riding the bench or getting very limited playing time? We often sent players back and forth to each other at the start of every season.....an example would be = we occasionally got a good 7th grader out for youth ball, that was obviously an asset at a skill position but was too heavy to make our "ball carrier weight limit"....we'd send them up to the jr. high team, where most earned a starting position....then the reverse = they'd get a bunch of 6th and 7th graders out, that probably wouldn't have played much, and send them down to us, where they were usually an asset to our program......a bad situation would be = if you talk a kid into moving up to the jr. high school team.....and he ends up not playing much.....and can't go back down to the youth team, where he would get to play a lot.....we would take them back, but not all programs will....."something to consider", especially since you're a volunteer asst. and probably don't have the final say, as to "who" plays where? and how much?
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Post by bigdog2003 on Jan 7, 2009 9:00:52 GMT -6
We have a seventh grade and a eight grade team. That ensures that a lot of kids get a lot of PT in every game. I do have some say over who starts and where especially on the lines since that is the position I coach. What we do is that if we have any very good seventh graders, the eight grade coaches will work with us and at some point during the season will move them up, this year it was the last two games. We had two move up, one was the starting QB/MLB and the other was the starting WLB. They ended up starting the last three games really, because we played a seventh and eight grade combined game.
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Post by touchdownmaker on Jan 7, 2009 13:08:52 GMT -6
My suggestion is to only pursue a kid who can really help you right now.
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