Ep 379 How Do You Cut a Kid Without Killing Their Love for the Game?

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How Do You Cut a Kid Without Killing Their Love for the Game?

Are You Sure the Kid Heard What You Actually Said?

Who Should Be in the Room When You Cut a Sixth Grader?

What Do You Say When a Kid Asks “Who Else Got Cut?”

Are You Cutting Them, or Putting Them in the Right Heat?

Why Does Every Cut Conversation Turn Into a Game of Telephone?

The right room, the right words, and the right heat.

After a quick check on the weather (California gets a little bit of fall, and its winter is mostly rain), Coach Bill and Coach Collins get into the follow up to tryouts: the conversations nobody wants to have. Cutting a kid, or moving a player down from the top team to a lower level. The goal is not just delivering the news. It is delivering it without killing the kid’s enthusiasm for the sport.

Coach Bill always has these conversations in person, and his rule of thumb depends on the age of the player: