Yr round HS coaching contact with players

They've just started year-round contact in Florida in the last couple of years, although they managed to work around it in years past. Our personal experience has been positive. Our summer HS program has been very relaxed and fun and takes place during the week, while the summer travel team is intense and competitive and, except for the big tournaments, takes place mostly on weekends. Our HS coaches have been supportive of participation on competitive summer teams, and we have been doing both. If 2B was a pitcher, it might be different, but the way my player sees it, the more ABs and the more game experience he can get, the better.

However, I have heard of two local HS coaches who are attempting to bully (my opinion) their players into playing only for the HS summer team. The threat is that summer HS ball is a tryout for varsity next year. Rumor has it that players with summer commitments to other sports are exempt, but the HS coaches don't want the baseball-only players being coached by anyone else. I wouldn't like being in that situation.

Edit: the way I understand the FHSAA rules, contact is OK, but mandating participation in summer ball is not. Someone will correct me if this isn't the case.

I don't anticipate a big difference. It has been a joke during winter ball where the city section coaches would be on the field in uniform and the southern section coaches would be sitting in a lawn chair next to the dugout. I don't remember what school it was but I saw one coach who had a walkie talkie with him during the game.

I don't know how this affects what they can do during last period "PE" with the players but once again it shouldn't make that much difference. If anything the players will get more useful training during the winter.

I understand that a lot of the ADs thought the vote was only for girls water polo or something of the sort. When they found out it applied to other sports they wanted to change their vote but couldn't get the 2/3 majority needed to revote.

2Bmom,
The CIF southern section coaches have always been allowed contact during the summer except a short dead period in August. It was the fall season when they weren't allowed contact other than for "conditioning" during PE. Some coaches followed the rules on that and some didn't.

I have no idea what effect this might have relative to football coaches insisting on more time spent practicing with the football team but once again I don't anticipate any major issues at our school.