A new coach needing to add security to a job that does pay money beyond the normal job. You have to build for the future as we all hope to do, but you have to give respect to the kids that are Juniors and Seniors, for it is school ball! Girls are not looked at like boys baseball and that's a perception that we all get confused when doing some of these thoughts on here. Every new coach has to lay out a plan with goals and ideas in order to get the job and lay out every angle to be successful. If a new coach's angle is to play the best of the best then that is a goal we all travel parents desire! However, if kids are equal in talent either freshman or senior, then the senior should play (jmo).
A lot of our 15 year olds in the travel world are just as good as the 18 yr olds in the travel world! The same thing applies in H.S., but once again (jmo) the senior should earn the right, that's what H.S. is about, because in travel ball we all try to put our teams together with the same birth year, and that's not fair to the kid with an off year (even though she is better), because we fear that kid will leave to a team with something better to offer or the ability to stay together longer.
We all try to put a team together to play together all the way through from 10U to 18U and we all know how that works out?(lol) So travel and H.S. isn't really much different except a H.S. coach has to deal with 14U thru 18U and do what is best for the team and the school.
To hear some one say I want to work with only freshman(4years) basically, and ignore the upperclassmen is not a coach, just another idiot with a plan to satisfy the boosters and the school board to get a job! I'm assuming this coach will never take a college job, as the kids in most college sports can leave after 2 years of playing.
I guess my final sumation is the coach is an idiot and looking for job security for the next 4 years, and I feel sorry for those Juniors and Seniors, but is really any different than the travel ball coach that wants the same berth years?
