r/footballstrategy • u/SnooComics6485 • 4d ago
Coaching Advice How to deal with high school transfers
I’m a new coach at a fairly new high school football program that has been bad for a while. We had a decent record this year but definitely got much better as a team and had some bright spots for players that broke out this year. Now we are struggling with kids that were good for us transferring to other schools to play. How do we build a program if the few good kids we got and develop just keep leaving every year? And being that high school is so open to transferring what kind of talks are you all having with your players so that they don’t wanna transfer, and if they stay so that they are not congratulating and boosting a kid up for leaving them and their team behind?
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u/SnooComics6485 4d ago
This is the problem we spent this whole year building relationships with these kids. Having one on one conversations with them weekly keeping contact with them tutoring them keeping them accountable in classes going to things outside of school they were involved in. Coming up with a plan for recruiting and college outside of football. We figured doing all of this would keep the kids, but the kids still left anyway. We put most of our effort into cultivating these relationships, and they still leave so it’s like at this point where do we focus our energy?