Coaching Concerns - A sport or an Activity?

Thure,

You are not wrong at all in your plans. The kids on your team learned very little this spring and I would bet many learned bad things they will have to "unlearn" going into their next season.

Baseball is a sport. Your coach treated it like it was an activity. This is not like going out to play on the monkey bars. Let me also guess that a bunch of the kids came very close to injury because they were not paying attention. For any of the kids that were really starting to develop a love for the game (as an organized sport), they got a raw deal this spring.

In T-Ball, his attitude is somwhat acceptable (only somewhat) and I would bet that he was a T-Ball coach last year if he coached anything at all.

Most kids have a blast learning to play the game correctly. Imagine the feeling of accomplishment when they get their first real base hit or when they catch their first pop up. Unfortunately, this coach took the same attitude many parents do: they treat the whole thing like an activity rather than the organized team sport it really is.

Take a team next fall and put a lot of the things coaches on this board talk about. Run the skill building drills and make the practices snappy and entertaining. Teach baseball and you will give the kids something to build upon AND you will give them the tools they need to continue to enjoy the game for years to come.

Splitter