3 sport athletes

[bipbopzot]

This day and age,do coaches promote it or discourage it?

[2seamfastball]

This day and age,do coaches promote it or discourage it?

 

who cares if the coach promotes it or not?????????????? why would they promote it, most kids play 1 maybe 2 sports anyway.

[Gerry Bertier]

It shouldn't be the coaches decision. Its the players and any coach that doesn't like it needs to get over it. Students are only in high school once, and only a small percent will play college athletics. So if you have the skill and ability to play 3 in high school, do it because after high school you may not get any other opportunities.

[bipbopzot]

who cares if the coach promotes it or not?????????????? why would they promote it, most kids play 1 maybe 2 sports anyway.

 

I figured the peanut gallery would have something to say. typical hayseed comment.

[66in74]

In our area coaches don't promote it. In fact they really discourage a player from playing multiple sports.

They want "their" players concentrating on the sport "they" coach.

 

Example:

Last year our son played baseball and football. During January on the days he didn't have baseball practice he would go lift weights with the football team.

The baseball coach criticized him for doing that!

[2seamfastball]

theres alot of coaches discouraging 2 sports much less 3------usually it s the football coaches wanting all the kids in the weight room. also alot of kids end up in just one sport for their specialty.

[DrTrojan]

This day and age,do coaches promote it or discourage it?

 

 

It depends on the school and classification. Small schools need their best athletes participating in every sport in order to be competitive. Larger schools? Not so much....

I understand that the Farragut baseball coach does not allow his players to play football. That might not be true but That's what I've heard.

Also, there are some sports that don't go together. It's rare that you find a wrestler that's a top notch baseball player.

Why? Different skill sets apply. Baseball is eye-hand coordination...

More on point, baseball players get better in the summer by playing better competition and seeing better pitching than they will see during the school year. If he is going to large AAAAA school, the football coaches expect him to be working out for football. If he doesn't play baseball, he gets behind his peers. And we haven't even mentioned the basketball coach who expects his players to playing in the high school summer league.

In AAAAA, most athletes would be relegated to being jack of all trades and master of none if they played three sports.

Thirty years ago, it could be done because football practice didn't start until August 15 and the kids actually had summers off to work or whatever. You didn't have all the Select baseball leagues. You had American Legion ball which was reserved for only the "best" baseball players in the area. You get my point....

[YellowCard]

I think that it's great that a player can excell at multiple sports and it should be the player's decision. But it's apparent that a player will be even better at one sport if he devotes all his time and energy with one single sport.

[ksgovols]

It shouldn't be the coaches decision. Its the players and any coach that doesn't like it needs to get over it. Students are only in high school once, and only a small percent will play college athletics. So if you have the skill and ability to play 3 in high school, do it because after high school you may not get any other opportunities.

 

 

This is it exactly. Less than 10% of male athletes in any sport are going to play on the next level regardless. Let 'em play. On the other hand, I certainly wouldn't expect a coach to 'promote' kids playing multiple sports. They just shouldn't discourage it. If 100% of Farragut's baseball players are getting full rides in college, then he's got a point. If not, it's ego driven and selfish to insist that his players can't play football. This is why the dead periods are getting longer and the regular seasons are getting shorter.

 

Let 'em play!