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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Believe me, you are over reacting to the lost 60 minutes of game time for the fall season.

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Then why support at all giving that time to some other kid(s)?  How is that benefiting the player sitting on the bench?  If sitting on the bench is "good" in some way shouldn't the kids getting that extra playing time benefit from the good of sitting on the bench more?

See -- there is no justification for limiting playing time of a u9 kid who does everything that the team asks of him/her.  Is the kid practicing hard?  Yes.  Is the kid showing up on time for games and practices?  Yes.  Does the kid have a good attitude and work will with teammates?  Yes.  But, even with all that the kid is not getting the same playing time teammates are getting.  Sorry.  That's very bad.  It would be bad coaching particularly at u9.  Frankly, it would be bad coaching at u17 too, but at u9 coaches should be fired for that stuff.

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That is definitely the part I don't get.  Someone can sit there and argue game time doesn't matter and at the same time justify loading up those game minutes with the same players over and over. [/quote]

50 minute game. 7v7 with a roster of 10. Please tell us how you get EVERY player the same number of minutes.

And then, assuming you can how many minutes a game per kid is that?

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You do it over the course of the season, not in each game. So you can give more minutes to certain players against certain teams and so on. In 2, max 3 games, it's done. [/quote]

Ok, 7v7
50 minutes
10 kids
10 games go!

Equal minutes over 10 games. How many minutes per kid for the season?[/quote]

Over the course of 3 games, every kid has a game where they start and play more minutes and games where they don't start and play less minutes.  Say 30 minutes for one game and 20 minutes for 2 games.  That will make it pretty close.  No one is saying exactly perfect, but that's better than 7 kids play 35-40 minutes per game and the same 3 always play 25 minutes per game.  [/quote]

35 minutes a game is to many?[/quote]

I think to follow the OP's case, there are 8 players on the team.  So 6 play full minutes every game (50 minutes) and his DC gets 25 and then the coach has some other player getting sub'd off. It was some scenario like that. [/quote]

And to distribute perfectly even would mean that all kids get about 43 minutes. A 7 minute decrease from 50 minutes from the special 6 and a increase of 18 minutes per sub up from 25 minutes.

Now could the coach do better sure. But in a game with no timeouts, even though subs are “unlimited” that just means number of players but you only get to sub on your possession unless the other team is subbing on their possession. You can’t call timeout to sub and you would have to sub 5 times per half assuming you could even get the opportunities do even do so. And, subbing takes time on a running clock.

While the idea and math seem good on paper it breaks down in a game where game flow is an important part. Managing 5 subs a 25 minute half would be ludicrous. [/quote]

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