Comments on: Basketball Players in Fall Sports http://coachingtoolbox.net/blog/basketball-players-in-fall-sports/ Visit www.coachingtoolbox.net for hundreds of free basketball tools! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:23:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: admin http://coachingtoolbox.net/blog/basketball-players-in-fall-sports/#comment-33 admin Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:38:45 +0000 http://coachingtoolbox.net/blog/?p=76#comment-33 I agree with you Tom. I believe that the fall sport athletes should not play in a non school basketball league for the very reasons that you enumerated--injury and fatigue. I do not believe that either the athlete or the fall sports teams benefit by being in a Sunday league. I do think that it is tough to enforce from a school coaches standpoint because you really don't know what the athletes do on Sundays. I am sure that I have had boys basketball players throw a baseball or go to a batting cage on Sundays without knowing that they were doing that. I really did not feel that I had the right to tell them that they couldn't do that in their free time on Sundays other than to counsel them to use common sense and that if they were getting run down or injured in other activities they were not only hurting themselves, but the team too. I agree with you Tom. I believe that the fall sport athletes should not play in a non school basketball league for the very reasons that you enumerated–injury and fatigue. I do not believe that either the athlete or the fall sports teams benefit by being in a Sunday league.

I do think that it is tough to enforce from a school coaches standpoint because you really don’t know what the athletes do on Sundays. I am sure that I have had boys basketball players throw a baseball or go to a batting cage on Sundays without knowing that they were doing that. I really did not feel that I had the right to tell them that they couldn’t do that in their free time on Sundays other than to counsel them to use common sense and that if they were getting run down or injured in other activities they were not only hurting themselves, but the team too.

]]> By: Tom Fenton http://coachingtoolbox.net/blog/basketball-players-in-fall-sports/#comment-31 Tom Fenton Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:31:11 +0000 http://coachingtoolbox.net/blog/?p=76#comment-31 This is a very relevant article from the coaches standpoint, but there is another aspect that I would like to get your opinion on. That is the fall sport athlete playing in fall basketball league. Typical at our school and most schools in the area the girls play in one of several fall leagues in prepartaion for the basketball season. These leagues are relatively infomal and typically involve perhaps on game a week on a Sunday for about 8 weeks. There is rarely a conflict with the fall School sport, but there are two concerns from a coaches standpoint. There is the risk of injury and there is question of whether playing the second sport, even casually, effects the play in the primary sport. A good example of this might be a setter in volleyball. At our school the volleyball coach is the basketball coach and his philosophy is you concentrate solely on volleyball until the season is over. Then you start getting ready for basketball. As you noted, however, there is very little down time in between the two. I tend to agree with this philosophy and my daughter is soley focused on volleyball right now. This is a very relevant article from the coaches standpoint, but there is another aspect that I would like to get your opinion on. That is the fall sport athlete playing in fall basketball league. Typical at our school and most schools in the area the girls play in one of several fall leagues in prepartaion for the basketball season. These leagues are relatively infomal and typically involve perhaps on game a week on a Sunday for about 8 weeks. There is rarely a conflict with the fall School sport, but there are two concerns from a coaches standpoint. There is the risk of injury and there is question of whether playing the second sport, even casually, effects the play in the primary sport. A good example of this might be a setter in volleyball. At our school the volleyball coach is the basketball coach and his philosophy is you concentrate solely on volleyball until the season is over. Then you start getting ready for basketball. As you noted, however, there is very little down time in between the two. I tend to agree with this philosophy and my daughter is soley focused on volleyball right now.

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