It worked for my son LHP. At the start of his Jr year, his team had plenty of pitchers FB players get priority and the coach likes his pitchers to go the distance.
Rather than sit and watch, my son requested to be moved down to JV to get innings. By the end of the season, the varsity coach realized his pitching wasn't as deep as he thought and that his FB players weren't automatically pitchers.
My son wound up the closer on varsity. Would he have done that without the JV innings? Can't say, but I know the innings made him more comfortable on the mound. Incidentally, his teammates knew that he asked to move down and why. At the end of the season, they saw the results and respected him for it. A prevailing theme on this website re: college choices revolves around "fit".
One of the components of "fit" is that it's better to be on the field playing at a smaller school than it is riding the bench somewhere else.
You don't get any better sitting. Let's draw a parallel with HS ball. Obviously, most HS players don't have the opportunity to select a school where they have a better "fit".
They can't transfer to a school that might provide them with more playing time. If the opportunity exists for an 11th grader to get some meaningful playing time at the JV level as opposed to riding the pines on varsity , then it benefits the player. I've seen circumstances where, because of a large senior class, some juniors may not get their chance to contribute significantly until their last year.
Our team had a couple of junior pitchers that weren't getting many innings with the varsity due to senior depth, rainouts, etc. They went and pitched with the JV in some weekend tournaments. It helped them to remain sharp, and it helped the JV program as well. Certainly it's important that freshmen and sophomores get development so that they can contribute in the future. But, it's not always a bad thing for some 11th graders to get some JV time.
Sometimes, a coach may not have much choice. In big schools, the Varsity team may be stacked with Seniors. There are many deserving Juniors at my son's school who should play Varsity, but there are several talented seniors as well. L LurkaLilly Member. Small school situation. Never had cuts before. The numbers dictate that there will be cuts this year.
So you cut seniors? Won't they develop anyway? Lurk: Keep the best players. Cut the rest. If you're not sure, keep the older player over the younger one. If the younger guy has game, he'll be back next year, and he'll get lots more playing time in his summer team than on the HS team anyway. Generally if you think an older player and a younger one are similar in talent, you'll get more perormance out of the older one.
That's my advice. Bottom line for me is that you keep the players that can best help your team--no ifs and or buts. My son's team will have players that will possibly go on and play college ball that will be role players this year, as Seniors.
Lots of JR's on JV also. What happens when you attend a high school with a group of very talented players. This may be the unpopular view here, but I tend to side with the approach taken here in Charlotte, where juniors don't play JV ball except in exceptional circumstances.
It is the high school coaches as a group that promulgated and self-police this approach. Has anyone heard of this and can anything be done? What section? Its entirely up to the coach. The only rule is likely that seniors cannot play JV. MWN said:. I guess the Varsity coach is implementing this. Mic Nificent said:. The usual practice I have seen is that seniors who have been with the program for three years already won't get cut but they may spend a lot of time on the bench. I saw one senior demoted to JV for a week for a disciplinary problem I think the coach hoped he would quit.
The JV coach made him a late sub in both games. Most coaches treat the Frosh and JV teams as feeder teams, so there is little point to put a senior down except as noted above but I don't know why he wouldn't want a Junior on JV where she will be a starter and supposedly devleoping into a stronger player rather than a practice and bench only player on Varsity.
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