HS athletes get up and go to school earlier in the summer than they do through the year. About 3/4 of the summer break. They go straight out of one sport into another. No breaks to speak of. No way a 16yo boy can have a job if he plays sports. 13yos have to be at the school at 6:30 and picked up at 9:00. No consideration whatsoever that parents have jobs. No consideration whatsoever that some families might need their teenage kids to work summer jobs or the kids might want to. Coaches kids play whether they can play or not. A coaches kid will make the team 100% of tge time, it dont matter how bad they suck. And the kid who is way better at that position sits the bench, a kid who might havea future playing ball gets robbed of that future so coaches kid can play every down or every inning. That is theft.coaches are stealing kids futures who practice hard, play hard and deserve to play. I have seen a coach force his son to take the field with his son screaming "no daddy, i dont want to play", and the kid wanting to play that position sitting on the bench wishing he could get on the field. Coaches kids making error after error costing the team games and they never come off the field. Thats messed up. Thats just a couple of things going on at the school. Then theres all the parents bs that they do. I wont even get into sll that. It has definately turned quite a few people i liked and some i really looked up to into people i dont even want to be around.
My nephew plays baseball for Jesuit Catholic in Tampa, a nationally ranked program. They have to go thru tryouts for both fall and spring seasons, no guaranteed spots just because you made the team last season. Head coach cut his own son in the spring of his junior yr, and cut the asst coaches son his sophomore yr.
