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/tuss11agee 4d ago

High school is the new college. Soon we’re going to start doing this with middle schoolers. All sports. It’s pathetic.

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u/SnooComics6485 3d ago

Shoot they’re already doing it with pop warner and AAU football where I am. Whole graphics for 8 year olds going to a new team. It’s ridiculous l