ZJSARENOTFREE said:

The other piece that is so dumb especially in small schools is you have kids full on specializing in one sport now and skipping the others. Know a couple of coaches at C-1 schools and their best athletes are not playing football because they are working towards scholarships in basketball, wrestling or baseball. None of the kids are going D1 either. So dumb. Best part of school was playing every sport you could with your buddies.

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Had a similar situtation a few years ago at the local Class C school. My point: what if every player quit all sports except for their favorite. Then your favorite team would suck because all your teammates are off concentrating on their own top sports, which doesn't necessarily match up with your top sport. Don't expect your teammates to support you while you abandoned them. You can't afford that philosophy at a small school without your entire athletic program sucking.

Herbie said:

What happens when teams all start to say they won’t willingly schedule Millard South

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Late on the thread, but that’s happening in Colorado right now for Cherry Creek HS. Other schools refuse to schedule non-conference against them so they have to play all non-con out of state and only play league games in state. They did a home and home with Millard North the past two years.

nja13 said:

Had a similar situtation a few years ago. My point: what if every player quit all sports except for their favorite. Then your favorite team would suck because all your teammates are off concentrating on their own top sports, which doesn't necessarily match up with your top sport. Don't expect your teammates to support you while you abandoned them.

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Also, a lot of coaches want that multi-sport athlete at the next level, and not just a guy who specializes.

ZJSARENOTFREE said:

Also, a lot of coaches want that multi-sport athlete at the next level, and not just a guy who specializes.

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That and kids that specialize rob themselves of great experiences in HS. My favorite sport in HS was whatever was in season. Different experiences and memories from each that I'm happy I have.

alt f4 said:

Not entirely true. Games are entirely different than practice.

You very rarely, if ever go live, to the ground in practice. You're not open field tackling, not hitting the QB, not taking ball carriers to the ground. You can't replicate game tackling in a practice setting.

You'll get better in practice against D1 talent, but there is a lot you can't practice that a game brings, even vs sup par competition. Especially freshman, soph, and juniors who typically don't play varsity.

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Sure, but does it seem like those things are suffering in games?

nja13 said:

There were some modifictions made after COVID, but option enrollment has been around since 1989.

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I'm specifically talking about the expansions. I should have been more specific.

ZJSARENOTFREE said:

Also, a lot of coaches want that multi-sport athlete at the next level, and not just a guy who specializes.

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Depends on the sport. The more technical sports once you hit a certain age, being a multisport athlete does not matter as much and you really do need to focus full-time on that specific sport. Wrestling for example, if you aren’t going full-time wrestling once you hit high school you are going to get left in the dust by kids that are doing it. Same type of situation with baseball. Granted, there are some world class athletes that this doesn’t apply to.

COYS said:

Depends on the sport. The more technical sports once you hit a certain age, being a multisport athlete does not matter as much and you really do need to focus full-time on that specific sport. Wrestling for example, if you aren’t going full-time wrestling once you hit high school you are going to get left in the dust by kids that are doing it. Same type of situation with baseball. Granted, there are some world class athletes that this doesn’t apply to.

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Maybe with wrestling, but not with baseball in my experience. I was lightly recruited by DVH and Childress back in the day. They loved that I played every sport possible and gave myself a break. Said that was a boost for me and that I didn't seem as I was burning my self out. Wrestling really can't speak to, but the main point is, if you are going to Morningside, your ass should be being a kid and playing all sports. I get it a lot more if a kid was trying to go D1, but we are talking Chadron and lower in my examples.

ZJSARENOTFREE said:

Maybe with wrestling, but not with baseball in my experience. I was lightly recruited by DVH and Childress back in the day. They loved that I played every sport possible and gave myself a break. Said that was a boost for me and that I didn't seem as I was burning my self out. Wrestling really can't speak to, but the main point is, if you are going to Morningside, your ass should be being a kid and playing all sports. I get it a lot more if a kid was trying to go D1, but we are talking Chadron and lower in my examples.

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25 years ago /= today. The current recruiting landscape alone is so different compared to when you played.

There will always be multiple sports guys playing D1 baseball. I'd wager the total numbers have decreased over the last 8-10 years alone. Just like there will always be single-sport guys playing D1 baseball.

Baseball coaches still mention how they like multiple sports guys. At the end of the day, it's irrelevant. You're either good enough for their program, or you're not, regardless how many sports you played in high school. I heard Tim Corbin talk at the ABCA in (IIRC) 2020. Multiple sports guys this, multiple sports guy that, and later that night in a hospitality suite talking future recruits, he never once asked if any of them were multiple sports guys. He was focused on the make-up of the kid, family background & the players metrics...

Many of us got a chuckle when he left. For the most part, it's all coach-speak bullshit, IMO.

ZJSARENOTFREE said:

Also, a lot of *GOOD coaches want that multi-sport athlete at the next level, and not just a guy who specializes.

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FIFY- I know a lot of coaches out there. Specially private coaches who think if a kid isn’t doing shit related their specific sport all the time then they don’t want it

herbsinator said:

Kids should generally be free to go to whatever school they want if they think it’s going to be better for them academically, socially, etc. They should just make it a rule that you’re only eligible to play for the school in the district in which you actually live. Let them go to one school and play for another if they really want (not all that different than how homeschool kids are treated AFAIK).

If moving schools is really in the students’ best interest then they can do it, but eliminates all the other bullshit. I expect you’d see the number of transfer cut down dramatically.

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I like that idea in theory, but where do you draw the line? Is it just football, or basketball? Or all sports? What about Fine Arts like One Act or speech? Band competition? If you have too stiff of rules, and they transfer because of academics, you could potentially cut them out of all activities (which isn't good either).

That SOB Van Owen said:

Why should taxes go to districts based on where you live if your kids can go anywhere?

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So that you still have some local control over your school. If everything is controlled by the state (ie money), then they get to make all of the rules too. And believe me, you don't want that.