[baseball1974]

I understand your need to disagree and that is fine with me, but you're missing my point. Of course, some kids try to squeeze in batting practice and throwing during their other seasons and that's not who I am referring to. I am talking about the kid that has stopped playing one sport or another due to being so far behind when they do start. Your elite athletes will always be able to do multiple sports and not have to worry about catching up. However, for the most part the average high school athlete will have to do nothing but their sport during that season because 99% of the coaches around the country do not allow their players to practice other sports during their season. It'd be the same as a kid leaving after a baseball game or practice to participate in spring football practice. I don't know many baseball coaches that allow that. It creates a tremendous amount of liability and chance of injury. No coach wants to lose a starter because he got hurt practicing a different sport during your season. No good coaches will let that happen. Therefore, they go season to season and in the summer they try to play as many as they can. So an average kid coming out of basketball season that already knows he's months and months behind the other kids playing his position, usually will not waste their time even coming out. Unless they are above and beyond the other kids athletically, they will not have the same opportunities as a kid that has been practicing for months.