Anyone can say it is ridiculous until it is your child.

The best programs I've seen play all Juniors and Sophomores in JV unless they are a Friday night starter. I think it is important for kids to play with their grade level group.

 

However, I would use freshmen and JV games to get as many kids experience and playing time as possible. I think that is how you keep kids involved and develop depth and experience. If a kid is rotating in on Fridays (not just blow out minutes) I wouldn't play them more than a quarter or half, to make sure other kids are getting opportunities for game experience. To me W-L records at that level are irrelevant.

No actually I didn't say when he quit playing. Yet I did say all children should have playing time on the JV level and that is not the case.

 

Someone should have informed you that the "everyone should play" stuff ends after 8th grade in Ft Thomas. I'm sorry they didn't make contact or that you missed the meeting or whatever.

Anyone can say it is ridiculous until it is your child.

Highlands, this is the first thing I've agreed with you on. And being a parent myself, I would recommend you allow your son to try another sport. He may have a much better experience.

I will also add, a kid my start Fridays on offense, but might play some JV on the defensive side of the ball or vice versa. I don't think you have a lot to gain by playing Friday night kids more than a half on Mondays.

I believe what was said was the you cannot determine what is going to happen at varsity level based upon what happened previously at the JV level.

 

And I agree totally.

OK, here is my 2cents. FR-JR are allowed to play JV. FR can only play freshman ( unless you CAL and you start a Junior for Freshman game, but that's another story) and SR can only play Varsity. JV is where you develop your bench players for this year and your Starters for next year. If you're a STARTER on Friday night 99.9% of coaches will not let you play JV. Also, Oldham County started filming all 3 levels this year and I think it is awesome. They have them on Hudl also.

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Anyone can say it is ridiculous until it is your child.

 

I know what you mean... I just think if a player "gets in" to a varsity game they should not be cast out of JV. There are a lot of kids that "start" on special teams and that get in for a play when a player needs a blow during the game... these players need JV time too. But I agree that there should be NO kids on the JV that don't get in at all.. These kids pay their dues. Everyone should GET INTO JV games, but they have to earn starting on JV. And that's what I have to say about that (in a forest gump voice)

At a school like Highlands a lot of the kids are playing only because it's Highlands an some in there family may have played. So there are a ton of kids who you could ask if they want to get in the game. Of course they will say yes. But with a roster the size of teams like Highlands every yr there will be kids who don't get playing time. That's just the nature of the beast up there. I wish all these kids well an when it is there time SHOW OUT!!!

Depending on the school, I would put more stock in the Freshmen level, typically you get a better sense of who the top players will be coming up. JV is tricky because if you're a good sophomore you'll be moved to varsity or if you're a backup junior you could play JV to get some reps. Six in one half dozen in the other, the may priority of either level is not so much the win/lose record, it's getting kids some game reps.

But I feel if your playing JV all kids should play every game! That's how you develop your talent.

And that is all I am saying. All to often we go to these games only to find our boy's are being pushed back so these Juniors can play. And that doesn't so much bother me but when you have to sit and listen to parent's acting like look at my son isn't he the best and your son is benched that is hurtful to the children and me and my wife. We all have to pay that fee every year would I have paid it knowing my son was not going to play NO

At the freshman level, the focus is on establishing a school's "program" into the minds of the players. The playbooks and schemes are generally simplified versions of the varsity playbook and schemes, and it is a focus on training kids coming into your program how things are done in your program. Gameplans and techniques are generally a bit more basic in order to allow for more repetitive practice of the basic skills. "Tomorrows battle is won during today's practice."

 

At the JV level, you're taking that training you received as a freshman the next step. The players are now practicing with the varsity players, and sometimes when the opportunity arises they may even see a bit of playing time in the varsity games. They run the same plays, have the same schemes, and are working to perfect and polish the skills they learned as freshman. Players are also working to improve their own skill level in order to prepare themselves for varsity play, and also in order to provide a better level of competition in daily practice for the varsity players. The players are also filling an important role as backups to the varsity players in case any shoes may need to be filled down the line due to injury.

 

At both the freshman and JV levels - and I think particularly the JV level - the winning mentality should definitely be a major focus. I have seen, and still see coaching staffs who ignore their upcoming JV games many weeks, and even worse, will sometimes cancel their JV games if they're sore about losing the varsity game preceding the JV matchup. What good does that do? All that does is implant a mentality that there are games that don't matter, and there are times where you can go in to a game unprepared. If coaches act like they could care less about their JV team and like they could care less about whether or not their JV team is winning, then that attitude will reflect itself in the players, and those players are eventually going to be your varsity players. Why do you ever want to give an impression to a player that they should ever go into a game without a winning mentality and an attitude that the game doesn't matter?

I would say any. If they see the field at all then they should not be playing. leave it to the kid's who get none.

 

OK. You view JV game as "rec ball." That's one approach to it but one that I'd disagree with.

And that is all I am saying. All to often we go to these games only to find our boy's are being pushed back so these Juniors can play. And that doesn't so much bother me but when you have to sit and listen to parent's acting like look at my son isn't he the best and your son is benched that is hurtful to the children and me and my wife. We all have to pay that fee every year would I have paid it knowing my son was not going to play NO

 

This is High School football- this is not "pay to play". Your in the wrong sport and teaching the wrong lessons if you think otherwise.