quote:Originally posted by BCRockets:
I have a kid who was all conference as a sophomore not coming out his senior year. I am disappointed in him for not accepting a leadership role his senior year, but I have come to realize that he saw baseball as a social event. All his friends were a year older than him, so now he feels baseball has nothing to offer him. He must have never really liked baseball, he just happened to be good at it.
As far as I'm concerned, I'd rather have someone who wants to play taking his spot.
We've also noticed another interesting trend at our school in all sports not just baseball. Kids are not coming out as Juniors, then deciding their Senior season they decide to come out. My take on that is they feel they may not play their junior season, so they don't put in all that time and get "nothing from it." Then they feel they have a better chance to play their senior years, so they come out. This is pretty disturbing to all of our coaches. I think it shows that the kids aren't getting what they should out of athletics. Any thoughts?
BC, I know what you're saying about the junior not playing and then coming out as a senior. We had a couple do that last year. My dad tells me that our coach told the players at a recent meeting that if you quit, you quit.
Skipper, our football coach I think said it best my senior year when we had several quit right before two-a-days.. "No point in worrying about them. I'm only worried about the ones who want to be here."