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Game 4 in the books last night - 42-8 victory, good game for us in that we were able to get everyone into the game for more than just a series or two - backups and deeper guys played part of the 3rd quarter and the entire 4th quarter. For my son, a fairly solid showing on both sides of the...

Game 3 in the books, a 35-14 win. Very balanced attack, but all set up by a dominating ground game early on. First drive was really good, with lots of room to run behind strong OL play, hitting a couple open passes, and culminating in a 10 yard TD catch for my son where he caught it in the flats...

It's dynasty, I wouldn't be worried about the catches, or lack thereof, this Sunday, I'd be focused on his massive upside for either later this year or more likely next year when there is a decent chance that CLE moves on from Njoku and the QB room is a bit more settled (ok, who are we kidding...

If your kid likes games/challenges, maybe look into something like DribbleUp or a similar app/program. App basically uses AI to track the ball and there are challenges for the players, such as X number of touches in a certain amount of time, or a certain pattern, etc. During Covid we used a...

The caveat to that is that you also need to be on the field to be seen. Have to consider if it is more advantageous to be one of the better players at a slightly lower level team, but in a position to showcase your ability and build up plenty of game film for coaches to see, or go to a bigger...

This is always great advice. My older nephew (who ended up choosing to play in the Ivy League) received a full offer from an ACC school very late in the recruiting cycle, largely because the coaches saw him in a few plays on the tape from another kid they were looking at. It truly is a case...

Game 2 in the books, and they won 24-0. We had some fumbling issues early on, luckily recovered all but one, but it looked shaky at first. But then our defense had a very strong stand stopping them on 4 downs in the red zone which hyped the team up. We beat them primarily with the ground game...

In California (soccer is a winter sport), kids can go play in the ECNL/EA/pick your acronym showcases, but they can not participate in competition with their high school team until they are completely done with club. It's usually about a 2-3 week overlap where we have a few kids sitting out the...

I think we've discussed this before, but doing this* is a CIF violation in California and would result in the player being suspended and the program likely forfeiting any games that they were rostered for. *"doing this" means participating in the same sport during the high school season. This...

The next best part is when they can drive themselves to practices (and better yet, when older ones can take the younger ones) thus freeing up a little bit more time.

He makes for a good "chaperone" RB for the early part of the season while the younguns you also draft start earning larger work loads and you can start them after the first 4-6 weeks

This is almost the exact thing I quote to the parents of the basketball teams I coach. I say in the ideal setup, around 70-75% of our games will be close where either team could win, a nice even match up that is challenging, about 10-15% are against teams that should be able to beat us...

He played in 7th grade, however he tore his ACL and meniscus in early October (2023) right after he had worked his way up to the starting MLB job on his team. This was his first real tackle game since the injury, though the scrimmage they had last week was played live/full contact, and of course...

Freshman game 1 is in the books. A lot of the boys definitely showed some nerves and lack of experience, but also enough positive stuff to see that potential and where things can go. Ended up losing 20-7. Two of the scores we gave up were on jet sweeps that got to the outside - one on the other...

This is almost an understatement. And really it's almost all levels of college sports, but more pronounced at D1 and D2. Typical schedule (this is the current off season summer schedule for my nephew) is up at 6AM for weights, then breakfast, then team meeting, then summer school classes...