How is the QB selected for a youth football team?
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Anonymous
| I gave 3 boys, 2nd, 3rd and 5th and we are in TX now (went to college in DC). They are all still in flag but not a single one of them have had an opportunity to play in the QB position. All of them started flag in Kinder and our experience has been it’s the same 1-2 kids a season. What qualifies is the coach looking for at this level? Should I ask for my kid to have a chance next game or is that overstepping? This is a recreational league with a parent coach. |
Anonymous
| The coach is looking for his second n to be the QB. |
Anonymous
| Sorry—for his son |
Anonymous
| Have your kid ask if they want to play. You don’t ask. In my experience, it’s the kids who are fast. |
Anonymous
Our QB mostly throw or pass to the RB. I don’t see the QB run often. |
Anonymous
| Do not ask fool |
Anonymous
| Sign up to coach next season |
Anonymous
| Coaches son |
Anonymous
| Has been the coach’s or assistant coach’s son, on every team my kids have ever been on. |
Anonymous
| The coach for my DS had a little tryout like the first or second practice. Basically had the kids who were interested throw some balls to receivers. They picked a kid who was fast and had like the best arm of the group. It wasn’t their son but the coach’s son did get some snaps back there. The coaches who do this do want to win and probably won’t spend too much time on developing a kid if they aren’t coming as a decent qb already. Like others have said it is always good to volunteer to be an assistant or head coach if you would like your kid to get preferred playing time. |
Anonymous
| You have to volunteer to coach |
Anonymous
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Coach’s kid with the assistant coach’s kid getting some occasional snaps.
The exception being if there is the son of a higher level football coach (hs, college, pro) on the team. Then, that kid will also be a QB. |
Anonymous
| It's always the coaches son or someone associated. |
Anonymous
| I just want to point out that "the coach's kid" is sometimes legit. Not always, but plenty of times. Between my two kids, both were on many teams over the years where the coach's kid was legitimately the best one. And it makes sense. Usually someone volunteers to coach a sport because they played, and often at a pretty high level. So between genetics, and being trained by a live-in qualified coach your whole life, the "coach's kid" is going to start off with an advantage. Not saying this is always the case--and to be clear, neither DH or I ever head-coached anything ever--but people are so quick to assume if the coach's kid is the QB or the shortstop or whatever, that it is just favoritism. But sometimes it is not. |
Anonymous
oh yikes. spot on, coaches son is the main QB and the other kid, whose father also played in college, is the backup |