Originally posted by btango:
Originally posted by davisdorm:
Heard from a football coach who attended football coaches meeting in Greensboro that high school football coaches could not take players to a weekend clinics (Ragsdale linemen clinic) or to a Shrine Bowl combine? Is this correct ?
Not definite yet. It was the hot topic at the coaches association meetings.
A coach should never be forbidden by a state rule or dead period from taking a player to a college campus or a combine/clinic where he will be seen.
The other big topic is the ten day rule that was passed is not the same the coaches sent to the Board of Directors. That is a complete cluster that was not well planned or thought out.
Coaches Association get together as one and get strong.
Isn't it Ironic that a Coach is looked at in most cases as the one person who knows what a kid is capable of, knows what kind of home life he has, knows what kind player/person or student he is, and knows what type of weight training and physical conditioning that he has been doing, or needs to do in preparation for the next level....Yet, are you telling me that there is going to be a possible RULE implemented to keep a Coach from helping that kid when he needs help the most?
We've all be told, and we've seen all our life the positive effects and influence that Coaches can have on a young man's life, while the young man is in High School......It's certainly disingenuous IMO to think that when a kid needs to get noticed by Colleges the most, and needs his Coach in his corner more than ever before, that a Coach would NOT be able to help him?...It's unbelievable that a RULE would be implemented to undermine that coach from helping that kid attend a combine, clinic or school that he may be interested in attending?......ANY Coach?.....And I don't care who you are, should NEVER endorse, or agree to an idea, concept or rule that keeps him or one of his assistants from helping his High School student atheletes pursue their dreams of playing College Football, and that includes participation in any combine, clinic or anything else that would be deemed a positive thing for that youngster.....
Maybe it's just me, but I can't for the life of me understand why there would be ANY rule implemented that would prevent a High School Coach from helping a kid who wants an opportunity to play at the next level?
Help me understand what the harm is in a Coach helping a student athelete who has either used up his High School elgibilty, or an athelete who is an underclassmen who wants to put himself in better position to play football at the next level when he does graduate by attending a combine or clinic with their Coach?
Am I offbase in stating that this may be one of the DUMBEST ideas ever by the NCHSAA?