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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many people are frustrated with how the SJC coach runs the team.  Word is that he will finally leave in two years when his youngest kid (daughter) graduates from SJC.

He basically only plays the starters and/or his favorites, even if they are beating an opponent by 15 runs.

What's nuts is that he had a junior lefty pitcher committed to play at Tennessee...and he only gave that kid like 5 innings all season because he loved his 2025 star pitchers (three in particular who are also D1...but TN is usually a top 5 college team).

SJC lost a number of rising juniors who will likely be starters at their new schools because of how he runs the team.[/quote]

The SJC coach very explicitly lays out his rules to incoming players and parents. They know that playing time is not guaranteed, and that if they want to be on the team, the players must take part in the coach’s camps. There is no gray area, and the players know exactly where they stand. A lot of parents simply cannot handle the fact that their kid simply isn’t the next Paul Skenes.

We know parents who sent their kid elsewhere for this school year because he wasn’t playing much, but the real reason is that the parents kept sending their kid to these camps where he was encouraged to put excessive wear on his arm. He kept getting hurt and the coach wouldn’t play him, so he’s with a much lesser high school program this year.[/quote]

This past season Gibbs made clear that he does not see it as his job to try to develop all of his players. He is only in it for his own self-interest.  That’s why he overplayed a top pitcher who now has to get TJ surgery during his freshman year of college while other very capable pitchers got almost no innings.  Every HS varsity coach will say that playing time is not guaranteed, but most HS coaches will try to maximize development of all of the players to make the best squad overall and to give all of his players the best opportunity to earn playing time and college opportunities.  Gibbs simply does not do that.  He could easily have won the same number of games while at the same time opened up playing opportunities for far more players.  In my mind that shows how weak of a coach he actually is.[/quote]

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