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Ohio did well in 2011

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k2onprimetime;1929362; said:
We do have spring ball. Just not as much as some schools in the south.
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I think stowfan is referring to the 7 on 7's spring/summer ball, which does make a huge difference in the development of QB's. Texas has the best program 7 on 7's and their QB production is stellar in large part to that constant grooming. The OHSAA stated they don't see this changing after some recent looking into, which is a shame to me.
 
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bigdog3300;1929378; said:
I think stowfan is referring to the 7 on 7's spring/summer ball, which does make a huge difference in the development of QB's. Texas has the best program 7 on 7's and their QB production is stellar in large part to that constant grooming. The OHSAA stated they don't see this changing after some recent looking into, which is a shame to me.
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Good for OHSAA-7 on 7 tourneys are a walking, talking, school visiting tool for street agents. Besides, I don't think it is a good idea for QBs to get used to playing w/out an OL and no pass rush.
 
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I'm just to old...

I like the idea of kids playing 3 sports and having most of the summer to be kids....

Team camp for a week in the summer I am good with, but all the basketball and football traveling teams playing almost year round leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

When Kids are playing for teams that arn't connected to there schools, I question the motives of the coaches and such. Its just looking for problems IMO.

When I was in school the football team was running track in the spring, now I hear about kids that are to busy getting ready for the next fall to run track? Sports is just getting to be to much like a business and not "fun".
 
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Roundabout,
you've got some good points, however, a bit outmoded. 'Travel-ball' aka year round (whatever sport) is what is making the athletes better. In the day, everyone played whatever sport that was in season. Mostly the guys, because there was only field hockey and powderpuff basketball for the girls. Due to Title IX, there is equality among the sexes. More girls are competing in sports, and in college there is an athletic scholarship for a female for every one for a male. Hence, more competition.

Identification of early talent is important, and then to get to an 'elite' level, you have to specialize. There is some cross-over, such as swimming and water polo, but not much. These 'coaches' can be the HS sports coach, but sometimes they are coaches that get paid to get kids scholarships. They take some of the kids, and 'showcase' them in tournaments that have HS kids, but maybe the kids don't have the talent to be on the HS team, but as a freshman, sophomore, they can get on the floor/court/field/pool, on a travel team. Heck, some of the year-round sports put more kids on scholarship than HS teams (volleyball, swimming, to name a few). The year round teams go to different cities in teh summer to showcase (HS maybe goes cross town, or to another city), and all paid for by the parents. Such is the price of competition.

We are going to a water polo camp, then a year round league, and we actually get one week this summer to 'get away'. My daughter is a sophomore in HS, and she's been competitively swimming since she was 6. She likes it, and enjoys the kids she swims with, and the away meets. Actually, the AAU swimmers are more highly ranked than the HS, and a darn sight more coaching goes on.

Now, for a truly elite athlete (what, the OHio Red and Blue teams) in basketball, the kids travel hundreds of miles for a single game. Didn't Deshaun come from Indiana to play with the Ohio kids? That's what it takes these days. Oh yeah, there's year round music as well, in the county orchestras, etc.......My daughter has already gotten a dozen letters (mostly small DIII schools) to attend and swim, she's good, but not that great.....


:gobucks3::gobucks4::banger:
 
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