Mehhh disagree. Cuz its h.s. ball.I think thats kind of the coach's job. Maybe not force, but convince. Inspire. Motivate.
Not always easy.
Maybe if NBE has a stud 16u or 18u player or 2 he could bringem in for a practice. Make them feel inadequate and explain why. Tellem their joining the team before haha. Undercover type "prank".
I think he is a HS coach helping out a TB team..No. I get what you're saying as far as inspiring and motivating but that is not the purpose why a lot of players are doing sports in high school. Also a lot of situations at high schools they already know they have no chance at winning. And that changes their mental perspective why they're doing it.
High school has different reasons why students participate shear social fun is one. Another reason, have to take High School PE classes which include sports for two years. Everybody has different motivations.... It's High School
Coach NBE you may have it in your mind of what you would like to accomplish. But that may not be the reason why they are out there. I see this in travel ball also where coaches have a mindset what they want to do. But they have a collection of people with a different mindset. You can either lead them the direction they want to go. Or go move on elswhere in a direction you want to go. And select players that are in alignment with you.I am a HS coach, and I volunteer from time to time to help instruct technique with an organization I coached with for many years. This is a U14 team with 4 returning members and 6 new kids.
I try and keep it simple so that they don’t immediately tune me out. But it seems like these kids don’t care, with no hustle unless I remind them. There are only 10 kids so playing time is just about guaranteed. I show them how to field a ground ball properly (rolled ball) but they just continue to do it wrong. I stop practice to break it down further but that lasts one time around if I’m lucky. It seems as though they feel that all is well when they happen to have fielded the ball and make a throw. They must have done it right. The kids technique needs help yet I am told one of the Father’s thinks all is well and can’t understand why we haven’t moved on to more challenging activities. Geez it’s only December.
The HC is new but is aware of this but he gets the same results. None of these kids will attend the HS where I coach so no leverage there. What would you suggest I do (if anything)?
Thanks.
I'm a fan of coach to the a certain level and don't compromise that level. If they are 14uC players then coach to a B standard and expect them to catch up. Slowing down the drills and taking heat of balls only hurts the ones that are playing at the right level.
Or split the team and run drills at different pacing so try and bring the less skilled players up, while still pushing the higher level players.
But if you sink the whole team down you will lose the skilled players in the process.