Maniaconthefloor wrote: Stating that just any coach can coach a team full of athletes and get them to perform is not only stupid is unrealistic.
baseball wrote:Maniaconthefloor wrote: Stating that just any coach can coach a team full of athletes and get them to perform is not only stupid is unrealistic.
i use steele because that is the baseball program i have the most knowledge about in the state. the team that one state last year has been a great baseball team since they were 8-9 years old, winning 5 straight league championship and a few in babe ruth as well, even having a year where they went 33-1? with the only loss coming to Kyle Carr who threw one babe ruth game the whole year because he threw legion. all these kids learned from two of the smartest baseball minds from the ages of 8-15 until silbernagel took over. dont get me wrong silbernagel knows baseball, but i credit the state title to the coaches the Steele baseball team had in little league and babe ruth, where the coach did teach them the fundamentals and thats how they succeed. they arleady learned the fundamentals before they got to high school, putting them one step ahead of the other teams around. if you can find me a coach who takes kids who have only played 2-3 years and brings them to a state title i will say coaches are the most important thing in baseball.
i will "enlighten" you about a typcial Steele high school baseball practice. 1. kids go play catch and get loose. 2. batting practice, Silbernagel and Schiele throw maybe 6 batters tops then the players throw to each other. 3. soft toss, again in which the kids to it together themselves 4. team takes a 15 minute infield. what do the coaches do while the practice goes on, stand and talk. once again silbernagel does know baseball so he does point out what the kids do wrong, but what he fails to do is tell them hwo to fix it. and when he does he doesnt work with them on fixing it.
Last year when they lost to washburn in the regional tournament and needed to win 3 games jsut to get out of the region, most of the starters stuck around and wnet to the batting cage to take cuts. with who, Silbernagel? No, the 2 guys who coached them in little league and babe ruth.....and the part about the coach putting the kids in the right position to win, every player on the 2006 team played the same position they did in little league? and when i say the little league coaches its not silbernagel and schiele, but it was Paul Bakkum and Greg Schwab.
and when you say the coach puts in the time and effort, silbernagel coaches steele's legion team too and i suppose you would like to know the time he puts in. the time for maybe 15 double headers, which is a normal scheduale, and FIVE practices tops.....5 practices??? i wouldnt call that putting all the time and effort into it, granted he probably is more busy in the summer then the spring, but if thats the case hire a coach who can dedicate the time to the kids and getting them to be betterplayers.
one last thing, why didnt silbernagel win region 8 coach of the year? because the team was expected to win and it was no suprise they did. and i will repeat this beacuse you probably didnt understand it before, never did i say silbernagel was a bad coach, he has a great baseball mind.....BUT the kids learned everything in little league and babe ruth
I hope this post answered your 2nd question as well as to who and where i played for in my baseball career
baseball1981 wrote:everybody knew of all teams, lakota wasnt goin to make it, they choke in the big games every timeace wrote:bball1niner wrote:guaranteed harvey does not go to state
i love it... so were you trying to jinx them???
if you're from harvey i wouldnt talk about choking in big gamesbaseball1981 wrote:everybody knew of all teams, lakota wasnt goin to make it, they choke in the big games every timeace wrote:bball1niner wrote:guaranteed harvey does not go to state
i love it... so were you trying to jinx them???
experiencingtechnicaldifficulties wrote:baseball1981 wrote:everybody knew of all teams, lakota wasnt goin to make it, they choke in the big games every timeace wrote:bball1niner wrote:guaranteed harvey does not go to state
i love it... so were you trying to jinx them???
Whoopdedoo Bazil, what does it all mean?? -Austin Powers.. I don't know if it could happen, but a Hope vs. Harvey 7th place game would be quite a show!!
Dizza30 wrote:if you're from harvey i wouldnt talk about choking in big gamesbaseball1981 wrote:everybody knew of all teams, lakota wasnt goin to make it, they choke in the big games every timeace wrote:bball1niner wrote:guaranteed harvey does not go to state
i love it... so were you trying to jinx them???
sodadrinker wrote:Dizza30 wrote:if you're from harvey i wouldnt talk about choking in big gamesbaseball1981 wrote:everybody knew of all teams, lakota wasnt goin to make it, they choke in the big games every timeace wrote:bball1niner wrote:guaranteed harvey does not go to state
i love it... so were you trying to jinx them???
what has the senior class of this year done to say they choke. i dont define choking as losing to a good team.
baseball wrote:sodadrinker wrote:Dizza30 wrote:if you're from harvey i wouldnt talk about choking in big gamesbaseball1981 wrote:everybody knew of all teams, lakota wasnt goin to make it, they choke in the big games every timeace wrote:bball1niner wrote:guaranteed harvey does not go to state
i love it... so were you trying to jinx them???
what has the senior class of this year done to say they choke. i dont define choking as losing to a good team.
then how did lakota choke???????????
sodadrinker wrote:baseball wrote:sodadrinker wrote:Dizza30 wrote:if you're from harvey i wouldnt talk about choking in big gamesbaseball1981 wrote:everybody knew of all teams, lakota wasnt goin to make it, they choke in the big games every timeace wrote:bball1niner wrote:guaranteed harvey does not go to state
i love it... so were you trying to jinx them???
what has the senior class of this year done to say they choke. i dont define choking as losing to a good team.
then how did lakota choke???????????
wasnt me that said they choked they lost to the better team so i dont think they choked at all
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