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We'd have to reign in the travel director, and when half the board tried it didn't go over well.
So instead we're trying to train the remaining rec coaches into better coaches. We'll see how that goes.
We're just a small town not a program, but we floated the idea of a little 'coaches clinic' last fall no one ever got around to it. Some of us (the coaches) talk about it, but time flies, scheduling is tough. We got sorta hamstrung last season because we had too many kids for 2 teams, not enough for 3, but we went 3 and we got stuck with too many of the kids that had dance/soccer/flaky and spent half the time just begging people to show up and trying to find subs, never mind doing that all over again for another practice, balancing fields, etc.
Just having dedicated time and space to practice and play, with a regular subset of kids that will show up goes so far.
Sure. hence 'properly trained coaches'. Hopefully one or two girls are taking private lessons too. But if you have this system in place at 8, 9, 10 years old, you can get enough kids enough reps that you can sorta fake it. Not winning any tournaments probably, but playing good softball, winning a few games, having some fun? sure.Can only have as many teams as you have pitchers. Not developing a pitcher with only 2x/week practice, either.