? Do football coaches in your are encourage specialization?
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They encourage multi sport participation! And all coaches attempt to schedule activities to not interfere with the other sport!
Missouri's high school activities association doesn't allow football practice in the Spring. It definitely puts kids here at a competitive disadvantage in development and in college recruitment.
Not sure that is true.. MO does not allow spring football, but in talking with coaches that have coached teams where Spring Football is allowed. They get more overall contact with the players, here. They can do more during the summer, here and it more than makes up for the limited number of spring days they were allowed.
I'm sure different college coaches have different opinions. I can only reference the communication I've had personally. Being able to watch a rising Senior during the Spring of their Junior Year perform actual contact scrimmages and games vs other teams seems like it'd allow a coach to better gauge a player's development after their Junior season during open recruiting periods. College coaches can still visit Missouri kids before the Dead Period starts in May, but every other SEC state gets that too. TX, FL and GA schools don't have fewer practice days during the Summer than Missouri does, but colleges aren't able to visit high schools then anyway.
There's lots of different theories about what best produces football talent, but there is one that is undisputed:
Football culture + weather = product.
The same is true in baseball, BTW.
You can have all the travel team, coach pitch, USSSA, $150 per session training in the world, but if you give me a kid that doesn't have two nickels to rub together but has a dream and 85 degree weather 365 days a year in the D.R. or Cuba, and I'll give you a baseball player.
It's amazing how a complete and utter lack of resources can be made up with drive, determination and something that can't be taken away — the ability to practice your craft while your competition is buried in a snowstorm.
Football culture + weather = product.
The same is true in baseball, BTW.
You can have all the travel team, coach pitch, USSSA, $150 per session training in the world, but if you give me a kid that doesn't have two nickels to rub together but has a dream and 85 degree weather 365 days a year in the D.R. or Cuba, and I'll give you a baseball player.
It's amazing how a complete and utter lack of resources can be made up with drive, determination and something that can't be taken away — the ability to practice your craft while your competition is buried in a snowstorm.
At Colquitt, football is 50 plus weeks a year, per GHSA rules! The Spring game is merely the culmination of the ten days in pads!
If the amount of time/number of days teams are allowed to practice didn't have a significant impact on teams' performance and player development, then leagues/activities associations wouldn't regulate them. Missouri needs to change their rules to mirror those of the other SEC states.
What if your team has ALL of the above? Colquitt recently received a Christmas present, of a $4,500,000 IPF, weight training facility, outdoor Sprinturf practice field, and coaches offices on campus!
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