I know a lot of people have been calling for this.
Jeff Christy is out / Childress is in
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If we had the pitching to go with our great AA duo this year we would be headed to Omaha.
Nebraska BSB: Assistant coach Jeff Christy mutually agrees to leave NU
Christy leaves Nebraska after four seasons as pitching coach under Bolt
Christy has been a long staple on Bolt's staff over the past four seasons as he led the Huskers' pitching staff. Christy also worked with Bolt for two seasons at Texas A&M (2018-19) and even worked for former NU head coach Darin Erstad from 2012-2014.
“Jeff and I have a close relationship dating back to our College World Series run in 2005,” said Bolt. “He played a key role for the last four seasons and helped us earn a Big Ten Championship and NCAA Regional Final appearance in 2021. I wish Jeff and his family nothing but the best moving forward.”
Fortunately his replacement should already be on the staff.
Maybe we host a regional. But probably wouldn’t get far if Brice was indeed struggling with an injury
He can probably make more money starting an academy and taking money from parents.
The World-Herald pointed out some glaring issues before this news even broke, any backlash will only be from the same short-bus crowd who thought Frost needed 12 years to qualify for a bowl game.
Sorry ,Will Bolt needs to go to,But we wont see that until next year if things dont change! Last piece of Bill Moo's hires that needs to be gone!
Definition of easy money.
Charm parents into thinking their kids are great athletes. They'll literally throw bushel baskets of money at you as they sacrifice every free moment of their lives to get them to yet another weekend tourney three states away. Bankruptcy and absolved marriages follow.
Kid ends up tired of being forced to play a pro league schedule, ends up hating the game. Parents can't stand the ridiculously imbalanced lives.
When I was a kid we had little league. We just met at the park and learned the game from someone's older brother, played games against similar kids from across town. Simple fun.
When my kids were growing up the 'select teams' nonsense started. People lost their everloving minds. Con men started to figure out there was some good money to be had by giving little kids trophies and put upon 'championships'. Traveling to some larger city two states away gives these tournaments the illusion of a nationwide participation.
Oh my god, this is all so true.
Of course, the parents that get roped into all of this almost always come back with these insane narratives about how it was money and time well spent...but for 99% it is torture. For the 1%, it is awesome!
I remember, years ago, starting to offer some camps with a guy I coached with, basically middle school shit at the time. I think he said "We should not charge of 20 dollars, a lot of the parents might get upset"
Okay, fine, 20 dollars! We had like 40 kids sign up, 90 minutes a day (I think) for 5 days.
Next year he goes "You know, I think you were right, we should charge more"
40 dollars a kid, you get a T-shirt and we had like 50 kids out...and it just grew and grew
Same with a basketball camp I started running. I would be making 2,500 dollars for that camp, for 16 hours of "work" over 4 days.
The travel tournaments were the best...drive 6 hours, stay in a hotel all weekend, to play 6 games...5 of them vs teams from your own city...that also drove out there.
Others caught on to the opportunities. A divorced parent I know got stung by the cheer industry. They may be the absolute worst. Constantly extracting money, previously unannounced for one thing after another. New uniforms, camps, 'tournament' nonsense. Always in another state. I get the feeling organizers work it so they don't pay for their own travel and lodging.
The non-custodial parent feels like they'd better not be the bad guy so they are caught in the trap.
This manipulating woman wormed her way into the local school to help promote this so all the girls were put under peer pressure. We fell for it one year before seeing through the whole scummy mess.
Cheer is at a different level of "extortion". It is unreal.
Sports wise...baseball or volleyball might be the worst.
And the emails that get sent out on a Wednesday "Hey Gator Parents, Great news, we got invited to play in a wooden bat tourney this weekend, in Kansas City! Since it was not on the original schedule, we will need each family to pitch in 200 dollars, lets not let the kids down, this is a great chance for them to get better!"
I love it when one "academy" has 10 "select teams" for 10 year olds...
Ummmmm, that doesn't sound so select.
But they have cooler names, like Vipers and Eagles, compared to park district teams, like Moose Lodge, VFW or Mike's Auto Shop
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I have littles (6 &3), but have friends with a 10 year old in select baseball. They are gone a lot, have to move their schedules for mid week games, but as far as I can tell they love it. I can’t imagine. Growing up the only select teams i can remember (I’m sure there were more) were the Rebels, and holy crap they were good. Capitol Gold in soccer. Omaha had most of the select teams that I can remember.
I know of what you speak. That movie pretty much nailed the state of children's sports in the 70's. Someone getting roped into coaching making stuff up all along the way. Lets go back to that.
I got hung being a basketball coach one time. Worst ever. I asked some parents for help and they pretty much turned their nose up at me. Even if it meant just keeping score one game.
My biggest mistake, I learned, was trying to set up practice schedules that suited everyone's needs. Someone told me just make a schedule and let them figure it out. Best advice ever.
All parents really want is for someone else to take care of their kids. Cost is no object. These "teams" should throw in an Uber option for parents that don't want to drive the littles around either. They would be raking it in.
I have to say, the select teams my daughter was on did pay off. A lot depends on the kid and what their motivation is.
Totally agreed. My 10 year old son made a baseball team in Lincoln and has been loving it. His coaches are awesome and have great relationships with the kids. It's amazing how much his game has developed in the time he has spent with his team.
My observation is most (not all) teams have the same thing going for them that we do with coaches, parent support, etc. We've had a good time getting to know the families and coaches involved with our team. We also know the older these kids get, the competition level increases. I suspect the closer these kids get to high school, the more kids get weeded out for a variety of reasons.
As sad as it is to admit, we have to prep our kids for high school athletics at the age of 10 by having them try out for baseball, basketball, dance teams etc...
Yeah, kids are way, way better at sports now than when we were kids.
RE; Kids baseball...Just wait until one of the single or divorced mom's starts flirting with one of the married dad's....always good entertainment...you say you haven't seen it yet? Give it time.
Have no issue with moving on from Christy, but don't call it a "mutual parting of the ways." It wasn't.
I have no problem phrasing it this way to give Christy some grace. Guy worked hard and didn’t molest any kids or burn any crosses.
That's the way my friend described it. Demands for money popping up constantly, out of nowwhere. None of the parents balk, like they should.
I taught with a wonderful lady and her son played "select" and I swear twice a month she would get that shakedown email.
Thing is...it becomes the parents LIFE...that is their social time and their new friend group...so they have to keep doing it.
I remember when her son quit or got cut his senior year...and she was like devastated because there would be no more hanging out parking lots, sucking down a beer, with the other parents.
I knew a family where the kid just basically had enough of their ridiculous pressure and went off the rails. The kid, you know, I still don't know that he recovered. After that, the family became unglued and factional. They were good, well meaning people but got caught in a vicious trap.
Maybe one day we'll have select recovery programs.
I hope Childress is still hungry bc he is a great hire!
Great move. It’s like Bolt got a look at the list of his most likely replacements and hired #1 and 2.
Hopefully he can again instill a bulldog mentality like the glory days where guys like Komine, Rodrigue, Marsden, Spiehs, Chamberlain, Dorn, Duensing, Kroenke, etc. would dig deep for those big conference and NCAA tournament games.
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