I guess this topic could have many different kinds of views. Let me share my question i have to get some different points of view.
This is my second year coaching for a local high school team. The head coach and I took over the program last year. The program is one that was way down and has been very tuff in the past to have any kind of competetive team. Last year when we began we wanted to get the word out that we were attempting to try an rebuild the program. Of the nucleus of the team that was coming back was at least 2/3 seniors. The rest was a mixture of the rest of the different classes.
Last year we were able to have a varsity and a jv team. The jv team after it turned out was a team that had only 4 players that had ever played organized softball. You can imagine what that was like for me. We ended up winning 5 games where the varsity only won 3 games.
My question is can a program hurt itself by sometimes taking those that could possibly play on varsity( like under classman),and putting them on a jv just to have two teams.
We had about three girls that could have played on the varsity last year, which i think took away from any competion from our senior class. Which may have made them work harder in practices and games.
Hope this makes sense, and would love any input.
This is my second year coaching for a local high school team. The head coach and I took over the program last year. The program is one that was way down and has been very tuff in the past to have any kind of competetive team. Last year when we began we wanted to get the word out that we were attempting to try an rebuild the program. Of the nucleus of the team that was coming back was at least 2/3 seniors. The rest was a mixture of the rest of the different classes.
Last year we were able to have a varsity and a jv team. The jv team after it turned out was a team that had only 4 players that had ever played organized softball. You can imagine what that was like for me. We ended up winning 5 games where the varsity only won 3 games.
My question is can a program hurt itself by sometimes taking those that could possibly play on varsity( like under classman),and putting them on a jv just to have two teams.
We had about three girls that could have played on the varsity last year, which i think took away from any competion from our senior class. Which may have made them work harder in practices and games.
Hope this makes sense, and would love any input.