Is it ok to tell basketball players not to play football?

Is it ok to tell basketball players not to play football?

 

I will play along. Where did this happen?

Is it ok to tell basketball players not to play football?

 

No.

Never, in my opinion. I would go so far as to say any coach who tells a kid not to play another sport is a coach I would not want my child to play for. A coach who does this is looking out for himself and not the child. If I were an athletic director who heard about this, there would be a talking to happening very quickly.

Is it ok to tell basketball players not to play football?

No lets kids play. Its HS!! If I'm the coach I want my players lifting getting stronger.

Is it ok to tell basketball players not to play football?

 

Any coach that tells a kid not to play another sport should be fired. It is never okay for coaches of one sport to discourage a kid from playing another sport.

Never, in my opinion. I would go so far as to say any coach who tells a kid not to play another sport is a coach I would not want my child to play for. A coach who does this is looking out for himself and not the child. If I were an athletic director who heard about this, there would be a talking to happening very quickly.

 

I agree Voice. However I have heard of coaches "strongly" suggesting that a kid should play select hoops or they wouldn't see action on the floor in the up coming HS season, thus creating an issue with playing summer softball. :irked:

I agree Voice. However I have heard of coaches "strongly" suggesting that a kid should play select hoops or they wouldn't see action on the floor in the up coming HS season, thus creating an issue with playing summer softball. :irked:

 

This should never happen! My thought is whichever coach asks a kid to choose, then give up that sport, if the athlete wants to drop one...

I agree Voice. However I have heard of coaches "strongly" suggesting that a

kid should play select hoops or they wouldn't see action on the floor in the

up coming HS season, thus creating an issue with playing summer softball. :irked:

Suggesting the kid not playing aau bball during the summer is a problem. But I feel if your a good player talent will win out. The coach wants to win.

I have seen that all the teams who make it to the state semifinals in basketball usually have about 6-8 players who play football... When you get to the state sweet sixteen in basketball. You need to be physical... Hint look at Madison central... Trinity

I have seen that all the teams who make it to the

state semifinals in basketball usually have about 6-8 players who play football... When you get to the state sweet sixteen in basketball. You need to be physical... Hint look at Madison central... Trinity

 

You need some strong guys. But I have seen first hand a coach suggest not playing bball for football. Agin every coach wants their sport to be first. But if the kid can play. All that stuff doesnt matter.

Is it ok to tell basketball players not to play football?

 

I have seen that all the teams who make it to the state semifinals in basketball usually have about 6-8 players who play football... When you get to the state sweet sixteen in basketball. You need to be physical... Hint look at Madison central... Trinity

 

Absolutely not. And vice versa, its not ok to tell football players they shouldn't play basketball.

 

To the second quote, I don't think this is the case anymore. A lot of basketball programs have their bball only kids doing a lot of strength training. You don't need to play football to be a physical basketball player.

 

In N Ky the current cream of the crop bball programs have little to no participation from footballers. I am not suggesting that these schools have coaches that dissuade playing two sports, they are just in a cycle of bball only kids. Holmes made a deep run in the sweet sixteen with an entire team of bball only kids. NCC had a great season and will be very tough this year with bball only kids. CovCath, Brossart, are two more programs that do not have footballers but win. Cooper is the lone example of a very successful current N Ky team that relies on some football players to compete at the highest level.

Absolutely not. And vice versa, its not ok to tell football players they shouldn't play basketball.

 

To the second quote, I don't think this is the case anymore. A lot of basketball programs have their bball only kids doing a lot of strength training. You don't need to play football to be a physical basketball player.

 

In N Ky the current cream of the crop bball programs have little to no participation from footballers. I am not suggesting that these schools have coaches that dissuade playing two sports, they are just in a cycle of bball only kids. Holmes made a deep run in the sweet sixteen with an entire team of bball only kids. NCC had a great season and will be very tough this year with bball only kids. CovCath, Brossart, are two more programs that do not have footballers but win. Cooper is the lone example of a very successful current N Ky team that relies on some football players to compete at the highest level.

 

Not quite true (Spencer Hemmer) played and started football for CovCath and while no one else played Varsity football and Basketball, B. Heppler plays Baseball, Wichmann plays Tennis, Harrett plays Tennis and Golf, Tobler plays Lacrosse just from the Varsity.

 

BTW have heard rumors that B. Dressman just might try out for the Basketball team this coming season!

Maybe it's an issue of semantics for me, but although I would say the general answer to this question is "no", I think there are situations were it is acceptable for a coach to have a realistic conversation with a prospect about whether or not playing another sport is a good idea.

 

Example:

 

Take a kid like Jarrod Polson who'd sat out some time in his high school career already. Before his senior year, he tells the basketball coach he wants to play football (assuming he hadn't played football since middle school). I think the basketball coach isn't overstepping his boundaries if he sits down with him and has a heart to heart about the pros and cons of playing football and what it could mean for his basketball career. A kid like Polson honestly probably needed every minute of his development in basketball to get to the point he's at at UK. I know he probably could have gotten a scholly to a smaller school (i.e., a full scholly, and not one that would be pulled if the recruiting class filled), but there's probably quite a difference in his future (i.e., job prospects gained through networking, the opportunity to get into coaching, etc.) being a hometown hero who played at UK versus one who played at a school like Wright State.

 

I used semantics earlier in the post because in some situations, I think a realistic talk about prospects and what it means going forward could be a strong (but arguably needed) deterrent versus outright being told not to.

Holmes had three football players on the basketball team...