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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, coaches support multi-sport players. Kids are expected to finish out their fall sport (football, soccer, etc). Once fall sports end, coaches expect them to prioritize the county team time commitments dover any other team.

My son's 5th gr team had an AAU player who tried to do both but the coach would not play kids if they were late or missed practice the previous week without a good reason and so he barely played the first half of the season, then he quit the team because his parents were piqued that he wasn't playing. He didn't know what they were running bc he skipped practice for AAU practices, [b]so he didn't add any value to the team. [/b]
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LOL.  You’re talking about 5th graders.  Thanks for being part of the problem.[/quote]

What problem? Encouraging kids to honor their commitments to their team?

5th graders need to attend practices for their teams so they know what's going on in the games. A kid can be great, but if he goes into the game and doesn't know what to do when the coach yells out a play or a press or an offense, he is hurting his team.[/quote]

Sports for 5th graders is supposed to be fun.  There is no “hurting his team” at this age.[/quote]

Its fine to have that approach for 5th grade! Those families should play rec league where you get to play whether you skip practice or not.

If a kid doesn't go to travel basketball practice, it hurts his team. Putting him out on the court is not fair to the other 10 players who attended practice and learned what they were supposed to learn. [/quote]

Keep being ridiculous.  You’re the type of parent who is ruining youth sports in this country.

Again, there is no hurting the team at this age.  Do you know why?  Because whether it’s rec league or “competitive” (LOL btw) these kids are 10 years old and it doesn’t effing matter.[/quote]

If "doesn't effing matter" to you, just sign your kids up for house ball. It doesn't matter, right? [/quote]

It’s not that it doesn’t matter *to me* - it doesn’t matter *at all*.  Seriously, what do you nincompoops think is going to happen if your prepubescent children don’t win the game on Friday because little Timmy practiced basketball with his other team this week?  Or God forbid, went to practice for a completely different sport?  You think the college scouts in attendance aren’t going to offer Billy that scholarship?

Taking sports too seriously at too young of an age (and 5th grade definitely qualifies) is ultimately just setting your kids up for failure.  But you do you, and good luck to your kids.[/quote]

I'm also not the OP but I completely disagree with you.  If you can't commit (even as a 5th grader), play house.  Coaches spend a lot of their own personal time to run practices and coach these kids, so when you have any kids that consistently miss practice (in county league), it messes things up for the whole team and it's irritating to the coach.  So if you know you're going to do this, don't sign up for county and play house instead.

That being said, 5th graders don't make their own decisions so this really boils down to the parents being selfish a$$holes and not thinking of anyone else but their own kid.  Sounds like you may be that type of parent.[/quote]

Why doesn’t the house league coach’s time matter, pray tell?[/quote]

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