Heard this phrase being thrown about the last few weeks...."Keep your options open"

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Over the last few weeks this phrase has been thrown about and wanted to see what everyone's translation is. Realize it can be different for certain situations....


"Keep your options open"

 

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You're not giving any context at all here ... thrown out to who by who?? I'm assuming it's in reference to tryouts, and maybe something like don't only look at or tryout for one team for next year ... but again, you need to give a little more context ...

 

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Sorry - in reference to end of season comment or comment made at a tryout by coaches to players/parents...

 

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If you are coaching and make this comment, it's one of two things... Keep your options open....we plan on letting you go for (fill in the blank for the reason) OR Keep your options open...as you are a great player and will be an asset to any team, even a better team that what we will field this year, I just want whats best for you.... I have heard coaches make this comment... some for the honest best interest in a great player, others because they want better talent, politics, etc. I'd love to see a thread started on the politics alone... maybe there is one.. I just haven't found it yet.

As a parent hearing this... you should always keep your options open. Being closed minded will only limit your DD's potential and opportunites. Being cut from one team opens many doors... If you take the negitivity and use the energy to make it positive, get better, try harder, it only helps your daughter become a better player. Being subjected to this ourselves, we took the high road, worked harder and found our DD had a talent with pitching. Had we not "kept our options open", my DD would not have had the opportunites she'd had.

I just hope all those parents/dd's being cut or not called back from tryouts take the high road. Too many take it too personally and cause too much drama. Good luck to all the young ladies giving it their all to play softball. I hope the passion for the game isn't overshadowed by hurt feelings and drama.

 

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Start making some phone calls

 

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To me it means don't put all your eggs in one basket. So many times people only tryout for 1 team and either don't make it or they make it and it isn't what they where hoping it would be. Eveyone should tryout for as many teams as they can to see who is going to give them the best opportunity. Travel softball is a one year commitment, every year players should be trying to better themselves and their situation. If where you already are offers those opportunities, great. But if not, you owe it to yourself to explore other options.

 

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If you are coaching and make this comment, it's one of two things... Keep your options open....we plan on letting you go for (fill in the blank for the reason) OR Keep your options open...as you are a great player and will be an asset to any team, even a better team that what we will field this year, I just want whats best for you....

And if you are a parent and you hear this comment, you are going to know what the coach means (i.e. - you're either not good enough or perhaps you are too good for that team).

 

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When a player tells me that she is "keeping her options open", it translates into "I am looking at other teams because you are not my first choice. However if I don't get the offer I want will *sigh* come back". I heard that song from one of my top players and set the course for finding (successfully) her replacement.

I would say the same applies to a coach making a similar statement; it translates as "I am upgrading my team and if I find someone better than you; well, bye-bye!"

 

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When a player tells me that she is "keeping her options open", it translates into "I am looking at other teams because you are not my first choice. However if I don't get the offer I want will *sigh* come back". I heard that song from one of my top players and set the course for finding (successfully) her replacement.

I would say the same applies to a coach making a similar statement; it translates as "I am upgrading my team and if I find someone better than you; well, bye-bye!"

that's what i think too

 

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When a player tells me that she is "keeping her options open", it translates into "I am looking at other teams because you are not my first choice. However if I don't get the offer I want will *sigh* come back". I heard that song from one of my top players and set the course for finding (successfully) her replacement.

I would say the same applies to a coach making a similar statement; it translates as "I am upgrading my team and if I find someone better than you; well, bye-bye!"

Pretty much agree....if you want to move on to another team...for whatever the reason...just say so. You can move on, your former coach and team can move on and it has been my experience that less people's feelings get hurt and everybody gets along. Nobody likes rejection...but being up front and honest is the only way to go in my book.