Interesting Question...

[BradleyBrave]

I can speak from experience as I was a bench player on two very good Princeville teams in the mid 80's. My junior year we went 28-3 before losing to Providence St.Mel in the quarterfinals and my senior year we were 27-0 before getting upset in the sectionals. I wouldn't trade a moment of any of that experience to have been a starter on a bad team.

As a coach, you don't want your players to have that mind-set. Every player on your team is valuable even if they don't see much PT during the games. I totally understood my role was to practice hard and make the starters work to get better.

Mystery caller...are you Jon Gulaundi?

 

[phyneous_j_whoopie]

I can speak from experience as I was a bench player on two very good Princeville teams in the mid 80's. My junior year we went 28-3 before losing to Providence St.Mel in the quarterfinals and my senior year we were 27-0 before getting upset in the sectionals. I wouldn't trade a moment of any of that experience to have been a starter on a bad team.

As a coach, you don't want your players to have that mind-set. Every player on your team is valuable even if they don't see much PT during the games. I totally understood my role was to practice hard and make the starters work to get better.

Mystery caller...are you Jon Gulaundi?

No, but I was the guy who replaced him at quarterback my junior year so he could lead the team in rushing from the tailback spot. He was truly a great high school athlete! Great remeberance

 

[Da Coach]

Please, no personal identifying information. Use the PM to ask those questions.

 

[tornado]

Please, no personal identifying information. Use the PM to ask those questions.

You mean the "PM" feature on this board works?

I thought it was a serious problem having such a feature? :wink: :wink: :wink:

 

[thefish7]

I played some baseball... I was a good player on a good team, and a total bench player on a good team. In one year of JFL I was a starter and then a reserve on a really lousy team, and on a HS volleyball team I was a starter on a really REALLY lousy team... So I guess I've done a little bit of all of it.

For me, in all instances, it was my buddies on the team that made want to play anyway. I remember resenting it a bit in JFL when I went from starter to reserve, and every once in a while being bothered by a lack of p/t on the baseball team... but, really, you spend most of your time practicing anyway, so it wasn't like I was inactive. I also knew that I wasn't ready for the p/t I wanted anyway. Pretty much, I never felt like I was being treated unfairly.

 

[Dubl R 1]

I don't know, to me, nothing is more frustrating than losing. To put your heart and soul into a program, to play all out, and it's still not good enough to win because you don't have any help would really take a toll I would think.

The only way I would take the option of being the best player on a bad team was if there was a chance I was good enough to make it professionally or to the next level, whatever that level was.

If I knew in my heart I was not good enough to advance to the next level, then I could not endure a losing season with no reward at the end of it. Alot of people would say that if you are not playing then it's no fun, but IMO playing time with a bad team would just be frustrating and tedious.

 

[bigdaddystuck]

For that fact.....any isu game!

Sorry for being off the topic, but your user name "Big Mike" reminds me of one of my all-time favorite BU players... Big Mike Davis!

I always thought your name was for Massive Mike Williams!

 

[bigdaddystuck]

As for the question.....It depends on the situation...if I was sitting on the end of the bench, and believed or knew I was better than the guys playing before me, then I would not like it.

This happened to me in high school, didn't get much playing time on a very good team, had the chance to transfer for my senior year, but decided against it. I may have been as good as some of the guys on the team, but I was not heads and shoulders better than them. I think I have a better understanding of my situation now that I have coached for 7 years and have had to make those decisions of who gets the most minutes.

 

[Stryker]

I can speak from experience as I was a bench player on two very good Princeville teams in the mid 80's. My junior year we went 28-3 before losing to Providence St.Mel in the quarterfinals and my senior year we were 27-0 before getting upset in the sectionals. I wouldn't trade a moment of any of that experience to have been a starter on a bad team.

As a coach, you don't want your players to have that mind-set. Every player on your team is valuable even if they don't see much PT during the games. I totally understood my role was to practice hard and make the starters work to get better.

Mystery caller...are you Jon Gulaundi?

No, but I was the guy who replaced him at quarterback my junior year so he could lead the team in rushing from the tailback spot. He was truly a great high school athlete! Great remeberance

Al Martin for the domination of the run game!! That was before your time though. Was Phil Bauer still around when you were playing or was that before you as well?