Anonymous
Post 02/05/2026 17:50     Subject: Varsity Basketball
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is there a way to predict your place in the rotation for the following season? Or is now too soon? When is it ok to approach the coach on this?

The only question that the kid (never the parent) should ask the coach is “what specifically do I need to improve to get more playing time?”

Also, FWIW, many coaches care only about winning. The same coach who recruited my kid as an eighth grader worked is butt off to recruit multiple upperclassman out of state transfers, thus ensuring that he’d get no playing time.

At a public school?


Yes, at a public school. People post on this forum that publics don’t recruit. They shouldn’t, but they certainly do. I guess it’s some compensation that a coach at a public in another state offered to fake paperwork and provide a place to live if my kid wanted to play for him. We declined.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2026 11:25     Subject: Varsity Basketball
Anonymous wrote:Is there a way to predict your place in the rotation for the following season? Or is now too soon? When is it ok to approach the coach on this?


Yes, very easy. Look at who's left on the varsity team minus the current seniors, then look at who starts on JV this year, and figure out where your kid falls in the pecking order. Numbers 1-8 will get lots to decent playtime. 9-14 will not.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2026 11:21     Subject: Varsity Basketball
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is there a way to predict your place in the rotation for the following season? Or is now too soon? When is it ok to approach the coach on this?

The only question that the kid (never the parent) should ask the coach is “what specifically do I need to improve to get more playing time?”

Also, FWIW, many coaches care only about winning. The same coach who recruited my kid as an eighth grader worked is butt off to recruit multiple upperclassman out of state transfers, thus ensuring that he’d get no playing time.

I wouldn’t never demand or argue that my kid get more playing time. However as his agent/manager, I need to try and get him in the place that is the best fit and makes the most sense for him.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2026 11:17     Subject: Varsity Basketball
Anonymous wrote:Is there a way to predict your place in the rotation for the following season? Or is now too soon? When is it ok to approach the coach on this?

There is a way to predict and that’s by asking the coach. As a parent, I wouldn’t say right now unless you get an opportunity in a casual conversation. I won’t go out of the way to do it, but after the season you can ask. If the coach doesn’t have a plan for my kid other than him sitting on the bench, that’s not what where I’d want him to play.
Anonymous
Post 02/03/2026 21:49     Subject: Varsity Basketball
I just went to my first HS boys game in years. Fairfax vs Robinson. That was some of the worst coaching I have ever seen. Just bad basketball.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2026 15:16     Subject: Varsity Basketball
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Is there a way to predict your place in the rotation for the following season? Or is now too soon? When is it ok to approach the coach on this?

The only question that the kid (never the parent) should ask the coach is “what specifically do I need to improve to get more playing time?”

Also, FWIW, many coaches care only about winning. The same coach who recruited my kid as an eighth grader worked is butt off to recruit multiple upperclassman out of state transfers, thus ensuring that he’d get no playing time.

At a public school?
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2026 14:00     Subject: Varsity Basketball
Usually the kids who barely or don't play were happy just to make the Varsity team.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2026 13:19     Subject: Varsity Basketball
Anonymous wrote:Is there a way to predict your place in the rotation for the following season? Or is now too soon? When is it ok to approach the coach on this?

The only question that the kid (never the parent) should ask the coach is “what specifically do I need to improve to get more playing time?”

Also, FWIW, many coaches care only about winning. The same coach who recruited my kid as an eighth grader worked is butt off to recruit multiple upperclassman out of state transfers, thus ensuring that he’d get no playing time.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2026 11:59     Subject: Varsity Basketball
Anonymous wrote:Is there a way to predict your place in the rotation for the following season? Or is now too soon? When is it ok to approach the coach on this?


Two problems with this. You don't know who will be trying out next season and you don't know if your child will make the team next season. These are the type of questions that come up after the team is formed. All things considered, I would think your student would know about where they are in terms of skills compared to their potential future teammates.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2026 11:38     Subject: Varsity Basketball
Is there a way to predict your place in the rotation for the following season? Or is now too soon? When is it ok to approach the coach on this?
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2026 10:25     Subject: Varsity Basketball
Yup
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2026 10:25     Subject: Re:Varsity Basketball
Exactly what the others said. Same players unless there is a huge score discrepancy.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2026 10:07     Subject: Varsity Basketball
Same 7-8 players until there is a 20 point lead.
Anonymous
Post 01/15/2026 10:00     Subject: Re:Varsity Basketball
Any team that is trying to win games is going to play the same 7-8 kids every game unless winning by a lot.

Anonymous
Post 01/15/2026 09:59     Subject: Varsity Basketball
Does the Varsity team at your public rotate players or play the same 7 all game?