Position and tenacity go a long way when it comes to rebounding. Making other players a little uncomfortable doesn't hurt either.
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Position and tenacity go a long way when it comes to rebounding. Making other players a little uncomfortable doesn't hurt either.
I hate the specialization and year round travel baseball. Kids start doing it a way too young of an age and has led to a sharp increase in arm issues for young kids whose pitching arms get over worked.
Its a great way to get exposure to college and pro scouts but the number of Tommy John surgeries on teenage boys nowadays is stupid ridiculous.
Its a great way to get exposure to college and pro scouts but the number of Tommy John surgeries on teenage boys nowadays is stupid ridiculous.
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Agree. It’s dumb. Female equivalent is soccer and ACLs.
OR girls. Just two days ago I had one of my girl runners tell me that her basketball coach told her she needed to quit cross country if she wanted to be a "true varsity player."
The soccer players never stop. I have several that run for me and they will practice with me 5 days a week in the fall, then practice soccer two days a week, run a meet Saturday morning, then go play soccer all Saturday and Sunday. Then they go play school soccer and club soccer simultaneously. They never get a break. Bodies need to rest at some point.
9 of these 10 ran track and played football. I saw a stat that said 75% of this year's Texas players ran track 72% of Michigan's did. Every year a large percentage of the first round NFL picks were multiple sport athletes. I like that Rhule emphasizes that. Tom Herman once said when he would recruit kids the first thing he would ask them is if they were competing in track and if they said no he would say "why not?"
There is NIL in high school. We have two kids at our school that both have NIL deals. They're not huge money makers but the deals are out there.
Those coaches are going to be out there. There is a girls coach in our area who is one of the all-time winningest coaches in the state, and he forces his basketball players to run cross country, if they don't already play a fall sport, because he wants them to get the conditioning.
Perspective often gets lost in these situations. Sure, being focused on getting better in a sport 24/7 is probably the best way to be great at it, but at what cost? We are talking about kids who often times won't play beyond high school, let alone professionally. They should be able to enjoy high school and experience different sports. I ran cross country and track from elementary school all the way through high school. I played basketball my Senior year of high school, just for a change of pace. It didn't harm my running and provided me with exposure to basketball, which has since opened a lot of other doors for me.
Mental and physical burnout is real. Kids need breaks. Growing bodies need time to recover. That is my biggest gripe with travel/club/AAU sports. Is it really a good thing for athletes to spend a weekend playing 5-8 games of their sport, every single weekend?
Your role was different………..
Tenacity especially. Many high school players excel at getting position, but don’t get than many rebounds. Dennis Rodman and Charles Barkley especially excelled as rebounders because after achieving position, they were able to identify the likely ball flight and relentlessly and aggressively attacked the location of the ball as it came off the rim. Just boxing out only gets you the rebounds that happen to bounce to you.
Timing, toughness, strength, effort, energy … rebounding is an unsung skill set. The best rebounders I’ve found are multi-sport athletes. The great ones relish that role.
The bulk of basketball coaches at high school or less don't do a great job teaching skills compared to their efforts at installing their offense.
In this debate, what is true with regard to the distinction of football and basketball is first: basketball requires a skillset with more variety in it than most of the positions in football, and second, the variation of skillset among positions is much wider in football.
It is a study in arrogance and self-inflation to suggest that basketball requires more skill. Better to say potentially more skills depending on which position ones compares to, but the level of skill is no less in football, at any position, than basketball or any other sport.
Talent is what momma nature gave you, skill is what you work at. How much time you spend, under proper instruction, working on whatever skill one seeks determines how skilled you are, not the sport or specific skill.
To this, I care little for the term in football, "skill player". Frankly, this is about dumbarse.
Don't think any skill is involved in those great battles between edge rusher and OT?
agreed, since this is a men's forum, I didn't comment on softball, but don't doubt what you're saying
Bo Jackson, Turner Gill, Deion Sanders and many others beg to differ.
