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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our coach said emailed out a depth chart so we learned our son is on the second string and isn’t a starter. They are in first grade. Is this normal? It’s 5v5 flag football and the kids will stick to one of 5 offensive positions and 3 defensive positions for the whole season. No changes on positions. Most are 6 and a few 7 year olds. This is my son’s second year in the program. He’s a center.[/quote]

I've coached both of my sons' flag football teams from 1st through 8th grade. And, no this is not normal at all at the 1st and 2nd grade level. At that age every kid should touch the ball during the game at least once - maybe twice. At that age, everyone is just running the ball anyway. There might be one kid that can throw the ball and he's probably the only kid that can reliably catch the ball. There is a really easy ways to do get everyone a touch. You give the ball to your less the ball on 1st and 2nd down. If you don't convert then you give it to your best player. Maybe you run some diversion counter type play or reverse for your slower kids but every kid should touch the ball. Not every kid should play QB - because only a couple of kids really understand what to do and if you have someone at QB not understand then the play blows up.

I can tell you stories of guys that do it right. Like kids looking at me when I say on 4th down the ball is going to be handed off to kid X. They ask why? I say "That's there best player and he wants to get a 1st down." The coach on that team would always hand off the ball to his less talented kids on 1st and 2nd down to ensure they touched the ball. If they scored or got a 1st down - great. If not, he knew his best player likely would on 4th down.

I can tell you stories of guys that have done it wrong. Like 2 years ago, I was coaching my 4th grade son's team at the time, we played a team that handed the ball off to the one same kid 19 of 20 times. And the time they didn't he was off the field tying his shoes. He was really good athlete that we bottle up sometime and sometimes we didn't. They won by a couple of TDs but as a parent on that team I would've been livid that my kid was basically standing there on offense. Though looking at the sidelines of the other team most parents seemed to be okay with because "hey, we won."

I will say as the kids get older, center because one of the more important positions given everyone is an eligible receiver. The center is usually one of the easiest guys to get open and shot gun snaps become really important as teams want to get their QB back away from the blitz.[/quote]

Hopefully the OP can clarify, because there is a way that this questionable coach might be doing things similar to what you are doing. I try to be generous in my assumptions of a coach with the amount of coaching I have done, like you, and knowing that parents don't always get things right and understand.

I'm ok with a depth chart, as long as it doesn't mean the 1st string is taking 90% (or even 60% of the snaps). Kids get tired, not everyone shows up to all games, etc.

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