Area Code Underclass tryout

This is just the initial email, but once your register they will send another confirming your spot. My son was at the Brewers tryout last year and it was by far the best event he ever did. There are more scouts and college coaches than kids.

fyi, that link to register is hot.  They may have some extra kids trying out this year!

JLC posted:

fyi, that link to register is hot.  They may have some extra kids trying out this year!

'splain yourself. Are you saying they have invited an abnormally abundant number of players?

roothog66 posted:

JLC posted:

fyi, that link to register is hot.  They may have some extra kids trying out this year!

'splain yourself. Are you saying they have invited an abnormally abundant number of players?

No, He is saying your link is HOT..... anyone can open it................ Congrats on the invite, good luck

ComeonBlue posted:

roothog66 posted:

JLC posted:

fyi, that link to register is hot.  They may have some extra kids trying out this year!

'splain yourself. Are you saying they have invited an abnormally abundant number of players?

No, He is saying your link is HOT..... anyone can open it................ Congrats on the invite, good luck

Ah, $#@^. Edited. Yeah, they may have a few extra attendees. Make sure you told them I sent you.

Just received an "application approved message.

I took a look at that link while it was available and found one question (actually two) on the application to be very interesting.

The question was, "Do you play high school football?  If "No"...why not?"

Curious why that question was on there...and specifically for football.  I can see asking if you play any other high school varsity sports...but odd that they singled out football and implied it was a "bad" thing if your answer was no by asking you to justify it.

Good question, I would love to know that.  Both of my kids play football and love it, but it hasn't seemed to be a bonus in terms of their baseball aspirations.

Just a wild guess here folks but isn't mid August the beginning of football season?  And the next tryout will likely also be in Football season, maybe they are trying to ascertain if you will have a conflict.

if they ask "Why not?", I think they have other motives.  Its an interesting question.

Just a shot in the dark, and biased by my own opinion, but...

I think there is something to be said for the conditioning drills done by football players, and the overall athleticism required of certain positions.   To the point that I think strength & conditioning coaches training baseball players could learn a lot from football S&C coaches (not a knock on baseball S&C coaches).

In general, I think playing other sports is good for overall athletic development, even if you have already decided on a primary sport.  It's good for proprioception, kinesthetic awareness, athletically moving your body, and being able to pick up and learn new skills more quickly in your main sport.

I saw a stat the other day (and I realize that 92.315% of stats are made up) that 87.5% of NFL draftees were multi-sport athletes.

So, maybe they are of the same belief, and it's a question to gauge the overall athleticism?  Agree that the "why not?" portion of the question is a bit interesting.

Student Sports also organizes the Nike Football camps. One year, I requested the names of the Nike Football players and invited the QB, wide receivers to our Area Code tryouts. The pro scouts always search for two sport athletes.

Bob Williams

"founder" of the Area Code games and Goodwill Series Int'l

In our school, baseball coaches clearly give preference to football players. A few of the football players are not the best hitters, but they regularly start. I think that coaches believe they are better athletes, they run and scramble better, and they are in general tougher (e.g. can play through injuries.)