For the past few years I was involved as a coach of Majors and Juniors Level LL.
This year I let someone else do it Because I cant handle Two teams any more.
I watched The team that is comprised of mostly Players I coached before This weekend.
Now I am glad that someone stepped in but I wonder why So many LL coaches coach a down play Non Competitive style of play.
You see our LL teams travel to play and for years the coaches I went up against were coaching pretty hard fast softball. We dont have travel teams locally But a lot of the LL teams we faced where made up of lots of Travel players.
Now all those Coaches are gone.
But this weekend as I watched my former players on the field I was astounded that they seemed to have went backwards in every catagory and skill.
I cant believe that girls that where Playing with all they had, are now playing at half speed.
Every one tells me "Its not travel ball so Lighten up". My reply to that is that our HS league is loaded with travel players so they need to get it NOW.
So just because you dont have the talent pool to draw from in LL does not mean that the coaches have to go about it like its a Sunday pick up game.
I may be way off base here but I hate the "Play it down" Attitude. I always go for it as a Coach No matter what I am coaching.
Guess I am just Old School.
This year I let someone else do it Because I cant handle Two teams any more.
I watched The team that is comprised of mostly Players I coached before This weekend.
Now I am glad that someone stepped in but I wonder why So many LL coaches coach a down play Non Competitive style of play.
You see our LL teams travel to play and for years the coaches I went up against were coaching pretty hard fast softball. We dont have travel teams locally But a lot of the LL teams we faced where made up of lots of Travel players.
Now all those Coaches are gone.
But this weekend as I watched my former players on the field I was astounded that they seemed to have went backwards in every catagory and skill.
I cant believe that girls that where Playing with all they had, are now playing at half speed.
Every one tells me "Its not travel ball so Lighten up". My reply to that is that our HS league is loaded with travel players so they need to get it NOW.
So just because you dont have the talent pool to draw from in LL does not mean that the coaches have to go about it like its a Sunday pick up game.
I may be way off base here but I hate the "Play it down" Attitude. I always go for it as a Coach No matter what I am coaching.
Guess I am just Old School.