Teams Folding - Good Teams Folding

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Carol,

Some orgs have to tell you what they are going to do and for other orgs it is obvious.

John

 

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I noticed that 10u teams are dropping like flies? Is it no coaches or no girls to play. So sad.

 

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@John:

My bad for not including you in the "new-comers" to the 16u field. And you are right, we know exactly what we are facing with Doom 96, Lasers Gold, Lasers Black and other teams in the Ohio 16u 2012 field. Being the older kid on the block isn't much comfort.

I just wonder if families faced with try-outs have a similar understanding of what they are being offered as compared to what is already established out there.

 

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I noticed that 10u teams are dropping like flies? Is it no coaches or no girls to play. So sad.

It must be a lack of good coaching because there are tons of 10u players out there!!

 

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Maijer - thanks for the kind words. I have learned through the years that you cannot please everyone. I have personally made phone calls and sent emails for our players that have asked me. The good news is that 99% of the kids that I coached appreciate the effort and experiences and memories made. I make it a point to seek them out at tourneys and root them on. My next time around coaching (with my dd in a few years), I will not have a kiddo on the team. Everyone has options, including someone else could have stepped up and coached. Mike Robinson put this team together 2 years ago and I give him 100% of the credit for creating a competitive, fair and instructive environment that allowed us to have really amazing success given the fact that we were a new team. Coaching with Mike was the best time I have had in my coaching career. Anyone who was at the end of the season meeting will understand how much I will miss it.

Coach Murph

 

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It must be a lack of good coaching because there are tons of 10u players out there!!

Please send them our way as we have great 10u coaches in place again this year.

I know, this was pretty shameless. LoL

 

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After attending Jim Clark's ( Johnnies) end of season speach, I could only guess how Coach Murph felt. There are many coaches that have given much to promote fastpitch softball in this state. We sometimes are easy to judge coaches , but many put in long hard hours to help kids succeed. Some have no kids in the programs they work with. All you have to do is watch some of these teams play and you know they play with desire and class. Many don't get the credit they deserve, but will tell you they do it for the kids.

 

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Please send them our way as we have great 10u coaches in place again this year.

I know, this was pretty shameless. LoL

Shameless makes it sound like it's bad! I prefer Opportunistic!

 

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Maijer - thanks for the kind words. I have learned through the years that you cannot please everyone. I have personally made phone calls and sent emails for our players that have asked me. The good news is that 99% of the kids that I coached appreciate the effort and experiences and memories made. I make it a point to seek them out at tourneys and root them on. My next time around coaching (with my dd in a few years), I will not have a kiddo on the team. Everyone has options, including someone else could have stepped up and coached. Mike Robinson put this team together 2 years ago and I give him 100% of the credit for creating a competitive, fair and instructive environment that allowed us to have really amazing success given the fact that we were a new team. Coaching with Mike was the best time I have had in my coaching career. Anyone who was at the end of the season meeting will understand how much I will miss it.

Coach Murph

i also think mike robinson is a good guy.

 

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WOW Saphires are folding that team. Why ? I know they had a rough end of season is

that why ?

Westside,

Folding isn't the right word, it has just "played out" for this group. A rough end of the season was not the cause, but rather a symptom of a GREAT group of kids, players, families, that had come to grips with the reality that we were not moving forward "together" after this year, due to many just simply growing up and moving in new directions with everyone's support and respect.

We were 30-6 and ASA qualified after ASA States, having played in solid competitive tournaments, and then things just sort of relaxed, let down, and half the team started thinking about college or longer term sports (for them), while the other half was still focused more on competitive softball. We have been together for 4 years, with hardly any turnover, the nicest bunch of people, who were all still very competitive, that you could imagine .... but it was just simply time to move on, weird concept. They went out fighting hard in Chattanooga, and the families parted as friends after so many OUTSTANDING summers together .... hopefully lifelong friends all.

As proud as I (and the other coaches) are of the team's accomplishments over the past 4 years, we are much prouder of the drama-free family atmosphere, and the outlook for so many of the ladies as college athletes, future professionals, and future mommies (down the road) ...... and future coaches!

About half the team will reconstitute somewhere .... and I vouch for each and every one of them if they show up at your try out. Good players, good people.

Sorry for the ramble, ... really gonna miss this family .....

 

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@pickledad:

Your Sapphires team was indeed a "gem". I can tell from your post how great the experience was and how hard it is to see the team wind down. Best of luck to all the Sapphire coaches, families and players.

 

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Nice post pickledad

 

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@pickledad:

Your Sapphires team was indeed a "gem". I can tell from your post how great the experience was and how hard it is to see the team wind down. Best of luck to all the Sapphire coaches, families and players.

Thanks cgs & DiamonDad, the last thing is that it wouldn't be right to not give a shout out to the guys that made it happen, and have been great leaders and great role models. Jim Bondoni was the head coach, he coaches at Alliance High School, and Gary Gough from Hudson who also coaches multiple sports at Revere. Great guys, with fire in their belly, and "caring" in their hearts. Gary coached 1st base for us the 2nd half of the year with a Halo on for his "broken neck" (freak accident right before 1st tournament) ..... I will let it go now, just wanted to properly acknowledge the guys who are not on OFC typing their thoughts, musings, and ramblings, but rather getting it done in the dirt and providing great knowledge and leadership for kids.

Last thing I will say, is that I am still looking forward to watching the other kids who will still be playing next year, along with the younger guns (their sibs), and trying to figure out which teams to root for next year without a kid playing ... already rooting for BH95 cgs! If for no other reason you are a great journalist, lol! Gotta follow the National Champs as they move up to 16u as well, happy for Steve and all the work he put in with his own kids and their team mates.

Good luck to all though.

 

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Please send them our way as we have great 10u coaches in place again this year.

I know, this was pretty shameless. LoL

And too far! LOL

 

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Riptides

What the yell, Mustys avatar is now Kats avatar?!! You guys are crazy.........:lmao:

Second post on page one.......

 

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It must be a lack of good coaching because there are tons of 10u players out there!!

Or the coaches just have been burned so bad that they can bring themselves to coach again. Can you blame them?

 

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What the yell, Mustys avatar is now Kats avatar?!! You guys are crazy.........:lmao:

Second post on page one.......

only Musty would try to pull that off... and get away with it.

I'm sure the homegirl is going to be bustin' a move on him... KJBM, now is he "ridin' dirty"....?

 

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only Musty would try to pull that off... and get away with it.

I'm sure the homegirl is going to be bustin' a move on him... KJBM, now is he "ridin' dirty"....?

Lester go over to screen name change thread.....;&

So ridin dirty......

 

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Heres the video for our homegurl.....

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@4thefunofit- can speak for the Championship team...it is true and the reason is that both coaches decided to take their dd to "bigger organizations" This is a great group of talented girls and I wosh them al luck in finding a good team. Very nerve wracking time for many of these girls and families as well!! Hope the grass is greener for the coaches that left!

Grass will probably be greener on the other side for Lil'Murph in the long run.Anyone should be honored for Glen to accept thier kid on his team-excellent college recruiter.

Unfortunately being a long time text/email/phone softball friend and our kids being BFF's in the same highschool program,I'd rather talk to him about someone running over his dog,car repo'd or divorce(none of that happend,just for instance)-he'd accept those factors easier than dealing with leaving Championship.Best opportunity for his kid.

FYI-You were on Murph and Mike's team?That's a resume in itself and I know they will help you find an elite team and they should be happy to accept any of those Championship kids-I know,my kid played with them and loved playing with ballers and great parents.