tduby1
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Post by tduby1 on Jun 12, 2016 1:52:33 GMT
We had a similar situation several years ago in soccer. The teams were done lottery style. (As opposed to draft). DS ended up on a team with a phenomenal father/son coaching team. They really taught, communicated and did a fantastic job teaching the boys. Best coaches either of my boys ever had. As a result, the team jelled fantastically. Went undefeated the whole season. (AYSO so all the teams were from our chapter).
For the end of the season tournaments, the higher up decided they were going to disband the team and redistribute the players across the other teams so another team would have a chance to win. Our coaches said no way and all of us parents said no way... So instead, they brought in the travel team and split all those boys amongst the other teams-- none for us though. And one of coaches played these travel boys all four quarters while the regular players were only playing 2 quarters!
But you know what....my son's team went undefeated the whole tournament. Big huge cheater team did come in second (they hadn't won one game all season so that WAS nice I guess). I was talking to one of the dad's some time later and he was bragging about how his boy's team came back from behind to win second place. Like I didn't know how that happened.
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MerryMom
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Jul 24, 2014 19:51:57 GMT
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Post by MerryMom on Jun 12, 2016 2:13:33 GMT
I'm surprised a coach with a good pitcher would allow his pitcher to pitch for another team because pitchers are limited to the # of innings in a week. Our league had a rule that if you used sub players, they could not be in key positions
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Post by fkawitchypea on Jun 12, 2016 2:15:53 GMT
Congrats on the win! I am so glad that ds has given up baseball. This is the only sport he has played where I found constant bad behavior by parent coaches. Football? Basketball? Lacrosse? All preferable to baseball dads.
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Post by anxiousmom on Jun 12, 2016 2:38:27 GMT
If I remember correctly, when my boys played soccer, when they had to find subs they could only pull from the younger teams. My older son played one bracket up from his brother and the younger was often asked to sub if his team wasn't playing at the same time. It helped that more often than not they had practice at different times so the younger would practice with the older's teams so that they 'knew' him.
But there were other rules-the sub couldn't skip his own game to play with the other team, the sub couldn't play the whole game and something else I can't remember. I also think they were really strict with subs for championship games.
I think the rules were put into place so that the coaches could cull subs as ringers only to get wins.
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Post by brookeq on Jun 12, 2016 3:04:50 GMT
We were short players today and pulled two kids up from the t-ball league. You should have to pull from the league below you I would think.
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Post by SockMonkey on Jun 12, 2016 12:57:12 GMT
Relevant.
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