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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not enough coaches and fields to accommodate extra freshman teams for most sports at the large public schools. Our private has three teams for many sports—essentially expand to accommodate interest, but they also have total control over how the fields are used and can bring in new (and pay) coaches. Our private also has intramural options in each season. Every kid does something physical 2 of 3 seasons/year per school requirements. [/quote]

They could field freshman teams of they really wanted too. The coaches get paid very little and they could squeeze in the practice time somewhere. Total nonsense.[/quote]

NP here. Interested in hearing your proposal on how to squeeze in more practice time. Let's try baseball, for example.   At our school, varsity practices about 3-6 and JV from 6-9.  Would you suggest cutting practice to 2 hours? 3-5, 5-7, 7-9?  On game days, varsity is at one school and JV plays the same opponent either home or away depending on whether varsity is home or away.  If you mixed in a freshman game, that would preclude varsity or jv games, no?

They don't play weekend games so it all has to be fit into the school week. [/quote]

Three hour practices don’t have to be done on the field. An hour in the cage or taking bullpens, running poles etc. give everyone 2 hours (or Jv plus freshman get 2 and varsity gets 3).  Entirely possible. [/quote]

PP here. I realized that my post to you could be misconstrued as being aggressive- I wasn't. I was genuinely curious how you saw it working (and I say this as a parent to a kid who would make our freshman team but probably not JV).

Given the number of kids who try out at our school, there would definitely be the numbers to support a freshman baseball team. [/quote]

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