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    Another HS Coach Thread

    You have coached her since 5th grade. This is most likely not new behavior but learned behavior. This should have and could have been dealt with much earlier. If after playing for you for 4-5 years they should absolutely know this behavior will not fly.
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    Need Advice from HS Coach Regarding HS / Travel Tournament Conflict

    When they make it rule no travel ball during season that pretty much takes away the choice doesn’t it? Whether it means there is no teams specific practices or whether that means there are no tournaments allowed in the state for high school age players it takes the choice away from them. It’s...
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    Need Advice from HS Coach Regarding HS / Travel Tournament Conflict

    Since you said the decision was easy, I would like to know why you think that? It’s well known that the vast majority of all softball scholarships come from travel ball. You are playing with talent developed by tournament ball coaches. Unfortunately you just aren’t going to develop any players...
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    Middle School vs. 12u

    That TB coach put in 4 years to developing your kid and sticking with her. The middle school coach isn’t going to do anything for her in just 2 seasons of 2 months per season. Why risk alienating the 1 person that has put in the time and effort for someone who hasn’t? Skip Saturday, let him...
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    Jordyn Bahl

    Read several of your posts after this comment….quit being a jerk in here. The board doesn’t need it
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    Jordyn Bahl

    I think only legal in USA. It will trickle down and up though. Leap is gonna be legal within 2 years in NCAA
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    POP TIME STARTS WHEN

    Pop times are a metric to isolate the catcher’s skills. If you incorporate the pitcher then you are adding variables you can’t control. By using this method a terrible pop time would look good with a kid throwing 62 vs one throwing 52 and vice versa. I was always told the whole reason it is...
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    I give up.

    Where from in Oklahoma?
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    Playing as a pick up for Major Tournaments

    Agree with others, know the role your dd will play. That's a lot money and time. Is she needed or is she just backup to have fresh legs? She may be used exclusively in pool games and sit or be pinch runner for bracket. Situations like this need crystal clear clarity on both sides or else people...
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    Clip from Fighting Softball Parents

    That's a good one! Where the full video and back story?!
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    Success with Barnhill “style”

    I actually see this quite often. I saw something curious this weekend too, something that I had to bring up. So I walked over to the fence and spoke with ump in-between innings. (DD was picking up with a team that wasn't even playing at the time so it was pure curiosity). They had wet the...
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    Perils of TB

    I have read a lot of these and I would like to point out that there is a huge difference in experience for the families and player when playing A or Gold ball. (Not just in name only) If you are playing Rec, C, or B, your experiences will vary greatly and most of those experiences will not be...
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    Field teams by age or select?

    At one point in tournament ball, it was considered a bad thing to be a team hopper. Guess some people got over that quickly. I have had the same 6 girls for 5 seasons, 2 girls for 3 seasons, and 1 girl is a floater. We play A ball and gold and beat the nationally known orgs more than we lose to...
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    Field teams by age or select?

    By reading this it sounds as if you will be playing against your teammates, which of course you won't. You will be playing against the same teams regardless of which team you are on. So same age division, same birthday until you hit 14u division or until you decide to switch to another program...
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    College Offer

    I agreed with everyone saying NAIA right up to the point you said you were in Alabama. Is that DI that you got 50% offer from Alabama or Auburn?? That would change some things for me. Just how I rate the cities Auburn Tuscaloosa Troy Mobile Talladega Birmingham Montgomery
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    Field teams by age or select?

    IMO, go by birthdays, keep the girls together and if you are lucky enough to retain most of them and the coaching has been good, you will be on a very strong team when it counts. (Recruiting) Don't get caught up in the "Select", "Elite", "Gold", "Prospects", "Elite Future Select", etc...
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    USSSA testing fieling masks....

    State Director for Utrip told me same thing. Seems funny to regulate something that isn't mandatory.
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    New rules everyone

    Which means their follow up rule will be mandatory face masks
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    10 signs that you should find another team...

    17) If your coach stands in 3rd base box and calls pitch location for the batter. You may want to step up in class You may miss out on a good coach with 4 & 7
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    Lotief?

    So one or two players found it egregious and the others reported what happened to them or what they saw. The one player left within two weeks of joining the squad. So let's just take her as the example. From what I have read, she did everything you are saying she should have done and then...

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