Enough Is Enough!

Middle of the season

The worst part is when these coaches steal players in the middle of the summer season. Players should have to be released from a team to play, regardless if it is 'championship' play or not. That will prevent some of this from happening.

 

Bingo... why arent rosters locked requiring coaches to release players? There are valid reasons to leave a team and most coaches would release a player without issue and if not then an appeal can be made to the sanctioning body. This process would also make players/parents think more about the change.

 

I believe ASA and some other sanctions do have roster rules. I remember players having to be cleared for release by one team before they could play on a different team in an ASA sanctioned tournament during a season.

If a team was found to be playing an illegal player they had to forfeit.

 

Only Championship play

When it happend to my team two days before a tournament, I made my calls and was told that the only thing that ASA can enforce is championship play, which is State, Regional, etc. I would not release the players, and called the coach who was the offender. Didn't matter, they played anyway. Coaches that don't have integrity don't care about this issue. I was the one scrambling for players two days before a tournament, so the other players they abandoned can still showcase thier talent. AND I added those players legally to my roster.

 

Going on many moons now

This, unfortunately, has also been going on for years and years now as well. Way, way back when, when my dd tried out for her first TB team ever, this very thing happened. Only reason our family was aware of it is that we had one of the players he tried to recruit out from underneath of the team. Handed me a business card with his name, cell number, home and office numbers...said he already had a team...would love the dd to play for him. Of course, he had told the coach he was giving up coaching and looking for a team. Needless to say, we stuck with the first team, tore up the card and couldn't be bothered speaking to the second.

 

.....no fraud no foul.

Hey folks, life is full of backstabbing for ill gotten gain. I say teach your kids to make a decision and stick to it from start to finish.

Fishman

 

Perhaps ASA, which was known as "junior olympic" softball, could follow the lead of USAV, which is "junior olympic" volleyball. There are ethics rule sheets that coaches must sign, saying they will not contact a player who is already in another club. For the duration of the season--(which would need to be determined) If it is determined that a coach has violated these ethics requirements, then that coach or club is penalized or removed from play.

 

hey cheeze i know all about this too my hitnrun team was broken up by a top notch coach and his organization ,remember.
took them to $100 lunches and treated them to weekends at his place on the lake and this was 10 years ago. i'd still like to knock his teeth out