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I have A question, should feeder program coaches follow the High school coaches play book and method or should they be given the latitude to explore their ideas and search for a broader or different method of accomplishment. As a elementary coach I personally would not want to coach if my ideas were not accepted and I couldn't run a play in a certain situation just because the high school coach wouldn't. What if I as an elementary coach go to my first practice and see a kid throwing a football like it is a baseball and has the best talent I have ever seen. should I make an effort to explore his ability or possibility or should I stick to the script?
Have you ever arrived early to a high school football game and watched the QB and ends warm up? They are throwing the ball all over the field, then, the game starts and the closest you will get to seeing a pass thrown is when your team is on offense and it is 3rd and 12 or 15. when the Mt, teams develop passing and pass because they can and not because they have to we will have much better football teams in the mt.
I WONDER HOW MANY Mt QUARTERBACKS WE WASTE, We usually take the best athlete we see and right then and there make him the QB and he spends the rest of his high school career handing off the football. IMO MT football is just as good as any other however until we learn to throw the football we will never realize our potential.

I don't claim to know everything but this is how I look at it. I think sometimes coaches in little league and middle school take things just a little to serious.
IMO the main point of those younger leagues is to introduce the kid to the sport and teach the basics and fundamentals of the game, but most of all to slowley get the kid ready for the highest level wich is High School, because let's face it, probably 95% percent of the kids will never go any further then that in the sport.
This I think is the problem when you let those coaches do what they want. You get coaches who start to get the big head and they think they are Vince Lombardi or something and they all want to do their own thing. So now you have kids who go to the A team then B then C then D then they play middle school for a few years. On all those teams the coaches are doing something different, but then the kid goes to high school so confused and then guess what, another new playbook and system. Not to mention that the HS coaches have to take valuable time away from the varsity to get the JV up to speed. I think if you can get freshman kids who have already ran your system for 5 or 6 years or more then they can hit the ground running and don't need as much work. I think this is why you see so many freshman playing and making an impact right out of the gate at some of the better programs. So basically you are getting freshman that are almost like at a sophomore level. This is all just my opinion and I could be wrong, but it makes a heck of a lot of sense to me.