Jordy Frahm is officially joining the Nebraska softball coaching staff. 🤯
“Playing softball for the Huskers was an incredible blessing to me and the coaches had a huge impact on me as an athlete and as a person. I am ready to have that impact on others…”
I’ve been watching high-level QB prospects, mostly from talent-rich Georgia, for a long time. 0-3 star guys who turned out to be better. 5-stars who turned out to be busts. And everything else in between. I’ve maybe seen 4 or 5 HS QBs who can make “all the throws.” @Qb6Trae is 1.
True story. Dodgeball was absolute fun chaos and it built real character.
Getting smoked in the face taught you to duck fast and throw harder. No trophies for showing up. Just sweat, glory, and legends.
Baseball used to be simple:
The best players played.
If you weren’t good enough yet, you worked harder, improved, and earned your opportunity.
Now some parents are fighting battles for kids who haven’t earned it yet.
What message does that send to the player?
Failure, competition, and accountability are part of development.
Sometimes the struggle IS the lesson.
Parents learn how to get out of the way and stay out of the way when your kid is playing. It actually inhibits success when you are coaching or yelling instructions from the stands. Growth happens with failure… as uncomfortable as that makes us as a parent.
Once we recognize this, we can be intentional about remaining silent when it comes to instructing, but verbal when it comes to positive encouragement. And encourage all players.
It lets your kid know that everyone on their team is important and that you care about team successes. This is fundamental in creating a team concept in your child.
#DoingDirtWork
Every weekend new videos come out of fights at youth baseball games. As someone that’s at a youth tournament almost every weekend with 11 year olds I’m telling you objectively the behavior of adults is getting worse. Parents berating umpires. Umpires chirping coaches and kids. Parents chirping children and opposing coaches. It’s all embarrassing.
If you are a parent that has found themselves a little bit over the top in the past I want to offer some perspective.
We’ve had a 1st rounder. I was on the phone with 5 division 1 coaches yesterday alone. We send every graduating senior to college baseball at every level EVERY year.
No coaches ever ask about their travel baseball record. Zero. Nobody cares. Just enjoy watching your kid have fun.
There is absolutely no reason to crush 12 high noons and start throwing haymakers at some 20 year old umpire because little Billy didn’t win the silver bracket. Get ahold of yourselves you have to go to work on Monday keep it together hoss.
@swmckewonOWH In this era of football the top schools are always going to be in contact and stay in contact in case a player decides to transfer at some point in his college career. It's the smart thing to do.