ironhorse posted:hsbaseball101 posted:You can suggest a student try out for a sport, but if he doesn't show up you can't keep pestering him about it.
Just devil's advocate here, but if ask a kid to come try out and he chooses not to, why keep harassing him to get him out there? It's obviously not important to him so he's never going to be committed to your culture. Just my thought.
As a coach it's hard to ignore talent when you see it. Last year I had a kid who was incredibly fast, but not that great at baseball. If he had some training he'd be a good track athlete. I asked him why he wouldn't join track, explaining that I would fully allow it even though they're in the same season as us, and he simply said he hated to run. I'd like to see him succeed and he's not going to do it in baseball.