OT MLB to PDX: We're talking baseball to PDX

And short.

 

A more false statement on here has never been posted.

 

You are fucking exhausting. Notice i said club would be for the offseason. She (his granddaughter) can play for her school during the season and do whatever club she wants in the offseason. If she’s good enough, that’ll be enough. Which it will be.

 

Doesn't work like that anymore. You have to find and contact the coaches yourself or pay somebody to do it.

The exception being if you're one of the top few players in the country.

But if you plan on being one of those players and don't do your work (contacting coaches) you'll almost certainly wind up in a less than great situation.

 

You almost have to make deals with the HS coaches now to make sure a college will see you.

 

Oh, Ive talked with daughter and son inlaw about this and the thing is theyve been somewhat influenced as well, by other team parents.

 

Unfortunately true. Many HS coaches have their favorites (and might not even care about winning). Or they have ambitions of being higher level coaches and do all kinds of under handed shit to try and win big.

They make deals with other coaches to vote on their favorite players for conference honors, etc.

If you aren't a favorite you have to be incredibly good so that the other coaches vote for you even if your coach isn't advocating for you.

But not making deals and just playing it up front and straight up. Just trying to get by on being a good student and good teammate and good player can really bite you in the butt if you aren't kissing the coach's ass or have a deal with the coach. Depending on your coach. Teams are desperate for coaches, and that's why there are unfortunately so many of these bad coaches who stick around.

That's how my eldest became starting post for one of the most storied programs in Oregon girls basketball at 5'3 and 115 lbs. And how my three daughters were never allowed to be on the same team in HS practice. And even though they were probably three of the best six players on the team or never allowed to be on the court at the same time in a game.

There were kids who had been kissing up to the coach since grade school and the coach was trying to convince them they were as good as my daughters.

The one time in practice they were allowed to be on the same team was when my youngest was a freshman and they destroyed the team which had all of the other starters. I believe the score was like 36 to 10.

Though, my daughters did have the girl who should have been our starting post, who was the backup to my daughter (5'3 115 lb post). She was legitimately the second best post in the conference. This girl started as a post for her college team, and my daughter started as point guard for her college team. Both their freshman year.

And the coach was pissed. Chewing the other starters out for giving up because they should know "that they are every bit as good".

Even though my youngest daughter was on JV2. My middle daughter was on JV. And my eldest wasn't even good enough to play point guard for us (even though no the other point guards on the team could score on her or guard her, and our offense ran far better with her at PG). And we couldn't compete unless my daughter was on the court. Even if she were on the court as a post.

My daughters went back to watch that practice on Hudle that night. But it had strangely been deleted... Just like the video of the high school coach calling the whole team losers has been deleted.

Super glad we have a new coach.

The lesson has been learned, though. We need to get better at kissing ass.