Last year, my kid's varsity team had 20 players. This year, it has 25. The coach added a number of freshmen and sophomores to a team that only lost a few to graduation.
Without getting into the talent of the new players, I think when you have too many players and the coach doesn't cut upper classmen, the freshmen should play JV. What's happening now is the back line defense is set so there are 20 players being rotated in for the 6 remaining spots. That's just too much and impossible for a coach to manage, especially an inexperienced coach. All the players seem about equal in talent so I don't know how the playing time will shake out.
As a coach myself. I can say that this rarely works out. The coach either tries to play everyone less than ideal minutes and makes all the players upset or defines the roster and a bunch sit the bench all year which leads to a toxic environment. Neither works. I can speak from my coaching experience. I had a team that won the conference championship with the same core group finish last the next year because I had too many players to manage. I learned from that experience and reduced the roster the next season and won the conference again.
When numbers are against you, it's better for freshmen and sophomores to play JV where they can play a lot and develop. I see a very long season ahead for my kid's team.
Without getting into the talent of the new players, I think when you have too many players and the coach doesn't cut upper classmen, the freshmen should play JV. What's happening now is the back line defense is set so there are 20 players being rotated in for the 6 remaining spots. That's just too much and impossible for a coach to manage, especially an inexperienced coach. All the players seem about equal in talent so I don't know how the playing time will shake out.
As a coach myself. I can say that this rarely works out. The coach either tries to play everyone less than ideal minutes and makes all the players upset or defines the roster and a bunch sit the bench all year which leads to a toxic environment. Neither works. I can speak from my coaching experience. I had a team that won the conference championship with the same core group finish last the next year because I had too many players to manage. I learned from that experience and reduced the roster the next season and won the conference again.
When numbers are against you, it's better for freshmen and sophomores to play JV where they can play a lot and develop. I see a very long season ahead for my kid's team.
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