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  1. Thanks for the reply! Some great Information there! Im still struggling with what is more important at this point. This player has been playing all his life and has normally been on teams where it was just known that 3rd base is his position. There are several players on the team who work just as hard and play the position much better than he does. I have no problem starting him as I do when the situation is beneficial for everyone. My main question is...which is more ethical, play him and sit another parents child (who is more qualified) on the bench, or sit him on the bench untill his skill level and attitude is in a positive consistant state and play him as much as I can when situations allows? At this age level what is the appropriate approach. I feel that they need to start learning to be competitive, but I also want each child to have fun and learn something to take to the next level with them.
  2. Lol no! Thats a great buy! Get it while you can
  3. That's easy to say when you have a 9 or ten person roster. What happens when u have a 15 kid roster. Are you supposed to be non compete at all?.....Some of the time? All the time? Who makes that call? As far as parents, is it fair to sit one parnets kid (comes to every practice, works ten times as hard as another) and put this other child in the spot they have worked so hard for? Thats a great topic and test (my score was 4 by the way) but it'd be nice if we could all live a textbook life and take a test and say hey this is what to do, but its just not that realistic. You have to make mistakes and learn, u have to do the wrong thing sometimes to learn to do the right! Anyways just thought i'd put a small spin on your post . Its just not always that easy. But I'd love to hear your opinion on my post "Coaching Parents" Thanks,
  4. I agree with the closed stance theory also. It gives the child a false sense of security when at the plate. When they make that stride from a closed stance they dont realize they are stepping straight. U have to remember 99.9% of the time the step out is in fear of getting hit by a baseball pitched. I have found when you use closed stance they get a few hits that build they're confidence and they actually work themselves out of closed stance usually all on they're own.
  5. I know this is probably an age old topic but here goes none the less. I coach (along with others) a 11-12 year old baseball team in a small town in NC. I have been coaching for 6 years now and have always said it would be much more fun without the parents . This year it seems to be even more difficult compared to 6-8 year old and 9-10 year old teams as I have moved up with my son. I have had a couple major issues this year with parents. 1st one is. I had a child who out of 20 practices he showed up 3 times and left early two of those. We had a game last week and he finally showed up. Well the coaches and I agreed it would be a good lesson for him to sit the bench for the game other than the counties mandatory one inning play rule. It's a continous batting line up so all kids bat on the roster. Well... we sat him on the bench and his father flipped out. Cursing in the stands and around other parents and they're children (this guy is a highschool math teacher in our county) we tried to explain to him the situation and he refused to understand our point and our reasoning for doing what we did. So my question is. how should we have handled the father and more importantly how should we have delt with the child. the child has now quit the team under his fathers influence im sure, and I feel horrible about that. I have always felt that we are preparing the kids for the next season which I might add next year there will be no continous batting order, no mandatory play time, and no garuantee they will even make the team. Did we have good intentions with the lesson we were trying to teach? Is it age appropriate to sit children on the bench at this age for poor effort and non-productivity? Next situation is a parent who has a child that is very athletically challenged. He is a 12 year old is very large and very slow. Gets down on him self and gives up in every situation when he makes a mistake. He has very little skill in the field. We have 13 players on our team and he is 13th on the list in ranking of skills to play the game. He is a very sweet kid with very very sweet parents who show up for every single practice and every single game. We have a starting 9 that play exceptionally well and work very hard as well as comming to all practuces. The parents are very upset because I dont have him as a starter, and doesnt get as much field time as some of the kids on the team. NOTE: My coaches and I make every attempt to play every kid as much as we can and remain competitive. There is no favoritism shown at all !!!! 1st am I age appropriate in setting these kinds of rules and enforcing them? How do you handle the parents in those situations? How do you reinforce the child and motivate him to do better without giving in to the parents desires for they're child to play every out of every inning of every game? Your thoughts would be appreciated, GA Manager
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