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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am old enough to remember when kids played both ways.[/quote]

Even on a roster that size, there's still kids that play both ways.  Especially on JV.

My son's JV roster was around 60, but only about 25 saw the field on a regular basis.

And tbh, the kids that never saw the field seemed okay with it.  They were usually small.  Usually new to the sport.  And occasionally when they got out there, they looked completely lost and at times unsafe being out there.

It was probably 2/3 freshman and I expect half of that group won't return as sophomores.

Its just the way it works[/quote]

Thise kids wouldn't be out there if the team had real tryouts and cuts, like other teams do. 
So why isn't the coach holding tryouts with cuts? Football coaches aren't known for being softies. They're not holding tryouts and making cuts because there is a benefit to them. That benefit is fundraising.

Keeping a bunch of kids on a team that are never going to walk out on the field so they get their hopes up and get disappointed week after week just to soak them for funds is exactly the kind of weak ass garbage some coaches are known for.[/quote]

Yeah, maybe.  But I'd challenge your statement that kids are getting their hopes up.

They aren't.  There may be one or two that think they deserve more playing time, that are on the cusp of first team vs second team.  But those kids would have made the cut anyway.

all the other kids standing around know where they stand.  They aren't getting their hopes up.  They are just happy to be there.  They're not dumb.  They look at the starters, and see how much bigger, faster, stronger and more experienced they are.  They know.  There's no real disappointment[/quote]

You must be a football coach telling yourself bs to make yourself feel better about screwing over a bunch of kids. Stop stealing their money and make cuts. [/quote]

No.

I'm a parent of a freshman who was second string defense.  The team also had 3rd string defense and 4th string defense (which was really a mix; it had kids on 3rd string defense as well).  There were a lot of kids on the team.

My son would get frustrated bc he felt he deserved a shot on the field to show he could hang with the first string.  The kids on the 3rd string D joked at practice.  Goofed around on the sidelines at games.  Looked at instagram during film study.

They wanted to be on the team, bc it gave them a little status, or made the transition to HS a little easier, or just liked hanging out after school.

But it was clear where they stood, and they could depart at any point.  In fact, some did leave after a few weeks.

But don't act like those kids didn't get anything out of it just because they got zero minutes.  They were on the team for different reasons[/quote]

Good coaches rotate second string defenses in to keep the first string fresh. Are you sure your kid wasn't third string? [/quote]

I'm 100% positive.  He was second on the published depth chart in his position on defense.  It was not on the line, where some rotations do occur.

But lets be real, rotations like that don't typically occur at the youth level or at the JV level.  They put their best 11 out there.

At least that was my experience when I played, and my experience as a parent.  For example, I had to explain to him that last year, when he was a starter on his 8th grade team, he only came out when they were up by 3 scores.  So for many games, he didn't come out.  And now he was experiencing the other side of that coin as a JV play[/quote]

When I played, O line and QB didn't rotate. Every other position group had at least one sub who got significant time.[/quote]

Well, I imagine its different by area and program, but in our experience, that's not how its been.  On defense, LBs and DBs have not rotated.  Some interior defensive line rotations, but the ends dont rotate out.

And then, when up by 3 scores, coach yells "second team defense" and all 11 players switch[/quote]

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