FB: Liberty League

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One of the issues I have always found is some inexperienced coaches tell kids to "learn" the playbook, before they assign the kid an acutall position.  Even worse is when the coach has the team stand around for 10 minutes explaining it verbally to a bunch of 8 year olds when none of the kids know exactly which position they will be playing.

And just to clarify, this is the first year this team has existed for girls, there are no other schools they're competing against, and we're like, three weeks into the season. My daughter said she really likes football but "I still don't know what a quarterback is supposed to do"

My son is 5, and he's in his second year of this, so I'm guessing by the time he is 8, he'll just be more accustomed to playing football, and thus understanding how all this works. And I think for me, the disconnect is, it kind of feels more like this coach is going by a typical age timeline as opposed to an experience timeline.

Also, an aside: During practice, he lectured the girls' about some of them showing up late and said they "owed him time" at the end of practice. I'm all about teaching responsibility but shouldn't that be a message for parents because...they're eight and don't drive?

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One of the issues I have always found is some inexperienced coaches tell kids to "learn" the playbook, before they assign the kid an acutall position.  Even worse is when the coach has the team stand around for 10 minutes explaining it verbally to a bunch of 8 year olds when none of the kids know exactly which position they will be playing.

And just to clarify, this is the first year this team has existed for girls, there are no other schools they're competing against, and we're like, three weeks into the season. My daughter said she really likes football but "I still don't know what a quarterback is supposed to do"

My son is 5, and he's in his second year of this, so I'm guessing by the time he is 8, he'll just be more accustomed to playing football, and thus understanding how all this works. And I think for me, the disconnect is, it kind of feels more like this coach is going by a typical age timeline as opposed to an experience timeline.

Also, an aside: During practice, he lectured the girls' about some of them showing up late and said they "owed him time" at the end of practice. I'm all about teaching responsibility but shouldn't that be a message for parents because...they're eight and don't drive?

This guys sounds like he should find somewhere else to volunteer his time and talents.  Organized sports at that age tends to be mostly organized cosplay for the kids, and sometimes the parents.  Just let 'em run around.  At least they're girls.  It took me one fall of being an assistant coach to a first grade boys soccer team to decide that Lord of the Flies is probably an optimistic book.