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Message: [QUOTE="swish7, post: 1185479, member: 486"] I've been looking forward to your opinion on this. It's sad, but a few weeks back I was in a random park waiting for my wife and kid to meet me. There was an 8-10 year old (not sure) football practice going on. The coach was running practice plays like it was a hurry up offense. Faster than a hurry up offense. Literally forcing the kids to run a play, then sprint back into position, and run another play. Then he'd cycle new guys in, shift some offensive players to defense (of which he had no coaches teaching any defensive fundamentals), and run more plays. If the QB didn't make it back into position in time, he would just put himself at QB, and run and juke around kids like he was McNabb. I mean, he was 30 years old, 6'2, 200 lbs, and athletic, doing this against 10 year olds. When kids did stuff wrong, which was a lot b/c they were running around like the keystone cops, he would get all George Patton on them. Parents were on the sideline, apparently loving it, for all I could tell. I was aghast. As to lax, at least at the youngest level they attempt to play the kids evenly. However, the program is almost too big. 2 practices a week, an hour and a half each. Not a problem, but b/c of the size of the program and the dearth of coaches, there were a few practices where my kid literally received only 4-5 passes. They might have one coach doing passing drills with 15+ kids. So, you'd have a 7 year old standing in line for 3-4 minutes waiting for his turn to catch a pass, which he'd drop, then he'd have to hop back in line. Besides this, and a few other things that seem to be common problems on club teams, it is a good program. However, I am quite disappointed in the e-mail thread I mentioned. [/QUOTE]

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