Tryout thoughts...

[mike_dyer]

*I really want her to play for your team.
*I get that - but your expectations don't mesh with our makeup.
*She has always been a great utility player. But ALL her personal instructors tell us she needs to focus on one position. So we want her to try out for your team as a SS.
*That doesn't work with us. But I will help you find a team around here that needs you and your SS.
*I still want her to tryout for your team. You will love her.
*Please do not waste a Saturday and Sunday coming to our tryout. This is not a situation either of us would enjoy.
*See you this weekend - can't wait for you to see my daughter.

When all is said and done this is the type of situation that will result in a thread on a forum, not unlike this one, about a coach who isn't fit to be coaching.

 

[Hilliarddad3]

Never thought Id see a walking talking rectums until this week.... OK Ill get timeout from the Bear, but Ill do my time in the penalty box, but worth it....

 

[mike_dyer]

Martyrdom complex much?

Say, when you get back watch this video and tell me what Hannah Rodgers does after the ball is pitched aside from:

1. Field the ball

2. Throw the ball.

http://youtu.be/gdLJIQGBGnY

I keep hearing that it's ssssssoooooooo much more complicated at "the highest levels" but it seemed to work exactly as I said for the final out, and all of the rest of them, in this years WCWS. How much higher does one have to go before all of this complicated technical stuff that I'm not privy to starts happening?

 

[Lester]

Most of the larger organizations do like we do by posting on our website coaches information and what the teams are looking for so interested players can check it out and do some homework before tryouts. We also have players that do state they want to try out for coach XYZ and it is noted on their form. If that coach does not have a need the other coaches will have an opportunity to talk to the player if they fit their needs.

We do not really build the teams as an A,B,C team. As an example; Last year three of the four 16U made it to ASA USA and the fourth finished 7th in ASA Eastern Nationals all were competitively balanced. Ladies from all teams have the opportunity and guidance for college exposure at the level they are seeking to play.
Team fees will vary from team to team as well as travel expenses. One team did do a lot of long distance travel in half their events.


As far as building a team around athletes and placeing them where the coach feels they fit best as some have stated. That is how it is done in most HS programs and a lot of college programs but would be hard to do with paying travel players/parents today.Very tempting for a lot of coaches, Its hard to pass on a gifted athlete, power hitter or a true slapper...

Actuallly, the 4th had the ASA/USA bid and chose PGF instead.

 

[hot corner]

Martyrdom complex much?

Say, when you get back watch this video and tell me what Hannah Rodgers does after the ball is pitched aside from:

1. Field the ball

2. Throw the ball.

http://youtu.be/gdLJIQGBGnY

I keep hearing that it's ssssssoooooooo much more complicated at "the highest levels" but it seemed to work exactly as I said for the final out, and all of the rest of them, in this years WCWS. How much higher does one have to go before all of this complicated technical stuff that I'm not privy to starts happening?

You keep saying that but we can already tell you know don't know much about softball. You keep forgetting the third part on the defensive side and just as important. That is catching the ball. You have to field the ball, throw the ball and catch the ball. Go back to wresting room where you probably don't know much about that sport either.

 

[ificanbelikeu]

When all is said and done this is the type of situation that will result in a thread on a forum, not unlike this one, about a coach who isn't fit to be coaching.

I see it as a coach who is putting the TEAM above the player. Do you get that concept?

 

[cobb_of_fury]

Fair enough.

I think we need a list of teams and coaches that award playing time based upon performance and a list of teams that award playing time based upon what a kid or their parents wrote on a paper 8 or 10 months earlier at tryouts. One may be more appealing to you than the other.

The world don't move to the beat of just one drum. What might be right for you may not be right for some.

This^^ is true Mike but always remember;
A man is born, he's a man of means. Then along come two, they got nothing but their jeans.
But they got, Diff'rent Strokes. It takes, Diff'rent Strokes. It takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.

 

[mike_dyer]

You keep saying that but we can already tell you know don't know much about softball. You keep forgetting the third part on the defensive side and just as important. That is catching the ball. You have to field the ball, throw the ball and catch the ball. Go back to wresting room where you probably don't know much about that sport either.

Ahhhhh, yes. I frequently forget that each player has to field the ball then throw the ball and then also catch the ball that they just threw. My bad. Thank you for schooling me, nub.

And you're right, I don't know much about anything, especially when compared to a person who somehow teaches kids to field balls, throw them, then catch their own throws and make outs.

All jokes aside though, Raymond Babbit, catching a ball, batted or thrown, is fielding a ball. Get an adult to ask the adult who does the stats on the team you play for how they calculate something called "fielding percentage." That should help clear up some of the confusion you are experiencing, pumpkin.

 

[mike_dyer]

I see it as a coach who is putting the TEAM above the player. Do you get that concept?

Yes, and I completely agree with it. Why do you ask?

 

[ificanbelikeu]

Yes, and I completely agree with it. Why do you ask?

I asked the question because it seemed like your view was the complete opposite in your statement.

 

[mike_dyer]

I asked the question because it seemed like your view was the complete opposite in your statement.

Who do you think starts threads about "coaches who aren't fit to coach"?

 

[ificanbelikeu]

Who do you think starts threads about "coaches who aren't fit to coach"?

D*****BAG disgruntled parents......

 

[mike_dyer]

D*****BAG disgruntled parents......

So, the sort of parent who maybe sends an email demanding that their kid play SS and SS only before they even tryout and then insists on coming to tryouts even after being told not to more than once?

 

[Hilliarddad3]

In today's times software calculates that for the intelligent ones.....

 

[Hilliarddad3]

Nobody is saying it's a new game, what they are saying at the Higher Levels of Travel and there are, it is being played at a stronger, faster with quicker reaction times needed due to the technologies of the bats today, that the less experienced kids can handle. If you don't have fast enough reaction times to do it all offensively and defensively, you aren't even being looked at....

 

[mike_dyer]

Originally Posted by mike_dyer

The world don't move to the beat of just one drum. What might be right for you may not be right for some.

This^^ is true Mike but always remember;
A man is born, he's a man of means. Then along come two, they got nothing but their jeans.
But they got, Diff'rent Strokes. It takes, Diff'rent Strokes. It takes, Diff'rent Strokes to move the world.

I missed this somehow. Must have been a bunch of spam in the way.

You know man, a lot of people complain that there are too many teams and the talent is spread too thin. I disagree, I think that the way things are is great because Everybody's got a special kind of story, everybody finds a way to shine.