[LCHSbulldogsalum]

It is a major advantage to have your best players with an extra month and a half of swings and giving your best pitchers a lot more time to strengthen their arms. I like having players that play multiple sports but basketball can cause major issues for baseball, especially early on. I wish there was a way to fix that and make it more reasonable for kids to play multiple sports. When your biggest competition for the upcoming year has two plus months of extra preparation, it is a no-brainer they'll have an advantage going into the season. Those teams are at mid-season form for their first scrimmage. Ultimately, by the time post season comes around it won't matter much, but it could take a hit to your record early on. I've known coaches in the past with that issue that would get creative with their scheduling early in the season to account for that variable. However, most single A schools rely on their athletes to play multiple sports. If not, its extremely difficult for them to be competitive across the board. Making kids chose one sport or the other shouldn't be the answer to this issue. The KHSAA should be able to find a way to fix this problem. It will probably end up being something along the lines of changing start dates and end dates to sport's seasons, or they can go back to putting more sanctions on how early kids can start practice. Regardless, there has to be a way. It's better for the kids to play multiple sports and it's also better for the schools and the teams involved.

I've known schools to have players playing multiple sports but the players who played baseball would come in after their basketball practice and get swings in, or throw. And let's be honest, what does the first 3 weeks, or really the entire season, really mean unless it is district seeded games? It's the postseason that matters. Just don't schedule your district games until April. Pretty simple solution to me, to be honest.


Putting "restrictions" on teams and punishing teams just because they don't have as many or no basketball players on their baseball team (or football players playing football) is a bit too much. We aren't a communist country. nicker: