Yesterday I talked to a mom of a second grade football player here in Boone County.  Today they are in Indy for a tournament where the 2nd graders can potentially play four football games in two days, two today, and two tomorrow.  That is way too much from where I sit.

What is too much football for young kids?

2 hours ago, theguru said:

Yesterday I talked to a mom of a second grade football player here in Boone County.  Today they are in Indy for a tournament where the 2nd graders can potentially play four football games in two days, two today, and two tomorrow.  That is way too much from where I sit.

What is too much football for young kids?

If this is flag, not a big deal, if it is tackle….shame on whoever set this up.

10 minutes ago, throwback32 said:

If this is flag, not a big deal, if it is tackle….shame on whoever set this up.

Tackle.

If it is tackle football, anything more than 1 game a week is unacceptable and should be illegal.

Just now, The Raven said:

If it is tackle football, anything more than 1 game a week is unacceptable and should be illegal.

I told her and her man that I thought football was a once a week thing and certainly not four games in two days for someone so young.  They weren't thrilled about it either but what are you going to do.

Short of taking their child out of play after one game, there's nothing they can do.  But they shouldn't have to do anything.  Whoever is running that team or league should know better and pull the plug on that trip now.

I'm in agreement with others on this thread that Football should always be 1 game a week for tackle.

I know the Battle at Rocky Top is a big event that takes place in Tennessee that many teams go to from this area with a format where you play at least 3 or 4 games over a weekend. You see it in the NKYFL where starter teams play multiple games in a week in "tournaments" that are essentially fundraisers, and putting little kids in harms way for leagues to make money.   Not only are teams playing multiple games in weekends in some of these events, but some youth leagues are playing 15+ games in a season including jamborees, regular season and playoffs. This is in additions to many of these youth teams having full contact practices and drills 3 or more days every week. 

These weekend tournaments are a joke. 
 

The NKYFL has 2 preseason games, 8 game regular season, and up to 3 playoff games. That’s for 8 through 11 year olds. The 6 and 7 year olds have same preseason and regular season. There are a few in season tournaments. The River City Classic is played during the season and you play 1 night during the week for up to 3 or 4 weeks. Boone and Kenton do starter bowls the last weekend of the season, and they don’t spread it out. All Kenton teams play in the Kenton bowl, and some also do the Boone.
 

I coached a starter team (6 and 7) last year and we played 6 games in 10 days at the end of the season. It was absolutely stupid. There is absolutely no reason to play that many games, especially with a small number. I gave parents the option to opt out of any of the games they wanted. I had all my kids  (under weight limit) in the backfield running the ball to essentially spread out the contact, and my qb was instructed to run out of bounds or take a knee on a broken play as my other qb was out of town. I just wanted my kids to come out of that stretch healthy.

 

I know some of these teams are playing every Saturday and Sunday, sometime 2 games each day. They’re playing teams across the river to get extra games in. These coaches don’t care about their players at all. All they care about is their record. It’s pathetic.

 

I know of a 3rd grade team that will have played over 20 games this season when it’s all said and done.

20 minutes ago, nees1212 said:

I know of a 3rd grade team that will have played over 20 games this season when it’s all said and done.

Probably the same team I just saw win one in the snow in some event and they are headed to another event either this weekend or next.  Madness. 

Spent over a decade coaching youth football in NKY..saw a lot of great stuff and worked with a lot of really wonderful men and women who lead youth football in NKY.

The one outage....and I'll never understand....is the absolute bloodthirst for winning at that level, especially at the younger levels. Too many games, lack of concern for the effects of too many games, some shocking terrible decisions in terms of forcing kids/teams to play multiple games in a day to "ensure other teams weren't shorted games".

Absolutely no need - especially in this climate - for the amount of football games these youngsters are playing .

The Bandits from Boone County played again this past weekend, they played last weekend too, both special events.

44 minutes ago, theguru said:

The Bandits from Boone County played again this past weekend, they played last weekend too, both special events.

The Boone County programs seem to do this morning than the others in NKY.  You may see 1 team here and there from other organizations at these events, but the Boone programs generally send multiple.

I believe there is another event this coming weekend down in Kentucky, but not sure if any of the NKY teams are going down.

 

2 hours ago, theguru said:

The Bandits from Boone County played again this past weekend, they played last weekend too, both special events.

The introduction of the Union Raiders, NKY Bandits, Cooper, Boone County into the NKYFL definitely upped the ante when that occurred. # of games increased, conditioning/practicing in the offseason increased and the out of town tournament season officially began.