This is one scenario that I do not like.

 

I feel that they should only be permitted to play for the school that they will attend as a freshman.

But how do you enforce this? How do you prevent an athlete from choosing to attend a different school their frosh year?

But how do you enforce this? How do you prevent an athlete from choosing to attend a different school their frosh year?

 

Good point hoops.

 

I really have no idea how you enforce/control this.... I am not smart enough to come up with a solution on this one.

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Where it gets more interesting, is kids playing FROSH as an 8th grader at a school they won't attend as a freshman. Not sure how I feel about that one.

 

M ok with it as long as the HS doesn't cut a student to make room for a non HS student For a lot of schools, it is the only way they can field frosh and JV.

 

I must admit..for disclosure....my youngest played baseball as an 8 th grader for a local school that he did not go to. We were up front and honest about it and the school was able to field a JV team.

Yeah I don't see that as a big deal. To be honest, as a high school coach, I would actually embrace the opportunity to have a kid in my program who plans to go to a different school. Kids change their minds and if I offer a great experience maybe he decides he wants to come to my school. If he never played in my program, I would not even get a chance to show that student what he could be missing.

As others have stated:

 

1) Old rule

2) Enforcement is on the schools

 

But, some have said that the juniors are told they cannot play. That is incorrect administration. Most coaches will work it out where juniors from one team may not play for a specified period of time in the game so the other team can play middle school kids, but there is nothing stopping the juniors from playing. The middle school kids are the ones forced to not play if a compromise cannot be reached between teams.

Yes.

 

No way more physical than wrestling. My son plays both and he wrestled varsity at an upper weight class while he was an eight grader. There is no comparison! Soccer and football you can atleast "run" from contact or have equipment for protection. Go watch your son at the age of 12 face off with a 17 or 18 yearold and you'll change your mind. It's just those two with no place to run or hide.

No way more physical than wrestling. My son plays both and he wrestled varsity at an upper weight class while he was an eight grader. There is no comparison! Soccer and football you can atleast "run" from contact or have equipment for protection. Go watch your son at the age of 12 face off with a 17 or 18 yearold and you'll change your mind. It's just those two with no place to run or hide.

Ok. My response was more directed to soccer being more physical than "other" sports. Did not mean to imply that it is more physical than wrestling. IMO Wrestling is in a different category all together.

I think that soccer has more physical contact than basketball and volleyball, to name some.

Yeah I don't see that as a big deal. To be honest, as a high school coach, I would actually embrace the opportunity to have a kid in my program who plans to go to a different school. Kids change their minds and if I offer a great experience maybe he decides he wants to come to my school. If he never played in my program, I would not even get a chance to show that student what he could be missing.

 

I love this post....even though as a parent, if a coach told me that, I'd question his sincerity. In a perfect world though, I love it. There is part of me that thinks it could work too, a kid has a great experience, likes his teammates, and says, "Dad, I want to stay here instead of going there." Of course, I think the flip could also still occur.

I love this post....even though as a parent, if a coach told me that, I'd question his sincerity. In a perfect world though, I love it. There is part of me that thinks it could work too, a kid has a great experience, likes his teammates, and says, "Dad, I want to stay here instead of going there." Of course, I think the flip could also still occur.

 

Almost happened with my son.....truly loved the coaches and the senior ladened team took him in under their wings

I love this post....even though as a parent, if a coach told me that, I'd question his sincerity. In a perfect world though, I love it. There is part of me that thinks it could work too, a kid has a great experience, likes his teammates, and says, "Dad, I want to stay here instead of going there." Of course, I think the flip could also still occur.

 

The teammates he likes should not be the seniors because they will be gone the next year. He needs to like the teammates who are his age or a year older because these are the ones he will be playing with for his HS career. Teams can change drastically with the departure of one graduating class.