Bob,

In several of your replies to this post, you mentioned that one of your criticisms of the FCSL D League is that the teams are coached by parents. Does this imply that the Central Florida Renegades don't have parents on the coaching staff hitting infield, throwing batting practice, coaching third and first base, etc?

I am certain you have mis-categorized many very qualified parents of players who may be very capable coaches.

Give the FCSL D League a chance to develop just like the parent league has. Central Florida continues to struggle with not having enough opportunities for capable players to participate in college developmental programs. The Central Florida Renegades and the Orlando Scorpions can't meet the needs of all the qualified and capable players. Allow the others to reach a level so that they can go on the field and compete with you, if you don't think they can now. Isn't that what you really want? Perhaps not; therefore, maybe you should change your objective.

Foulpole,

I'm going to try and answer your points.

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In several of your replies to this post, you mentioned that one of your criticisms of the FCSL D League is that the teams are coached by parents. Does this imply that the Central Florida Renegades don't have parents on the coaching staff hitting infield, throwing batting practice, coaching third and first base, etc?

I am certain you have mis-categorized many very qualified parents of players who may be very capable coaches.

Give the FCSL D League a chance to develop just like the parent league has. Central Florida continues to struggle with not having enough opportunities for capable players to participate in college developmental programs. The Central Florida Renegades and the Orlando Scorpions can't meet the needs of all the qualified and capable players. Allow the others to reach a level so that they can go on the field and compete with you, if you don't think they can now. Isn't that what you really want? Perhaps not; therefore, maybe you should change your objective.

The Central Florida Renegades do not presently have any coaches that are parents. In the past we did and for the most part it has not worked out well. The four lone positive exceptions were Roger Holt (former New York Yankee), Richard Billings (son is LSCC coach), Bob King (Winter Park HS coach), and Kerry Whetro (South Lake HS coach). It doesn't work out because the parents are more concerned with their children's playing time than the program or the other players.

I believe not having parents coach is the best way to handle a top level program. Parents that are coaching generally have an agenda. By the way, I'm not faulting those parents for having an agenda because it is clearly their right to do so. In fact, I'd fault them if they did not have an agenda to help their child.

The more qualified team there are in the Orlando area the better it is for teams like the Central Florida Renegades and Orlando Scorpions. There are other top teams in this area like the Central Florida Black Racers, Chet Lemon Juice, Central Florida Knights, etc. The D-league was even invited to participate in events with those teams and declined because they wanted to stay in-house. Once again for the D-League to get better they have to make some serious adjustments in coaching and scheduling and organization. I do wish the league well, but until they do get better they must understand they fall below the travel ball teams previously mentioned and should advertise that way. Finally, for an in-house recreation league their fee of $500 per player is expensive. The Renegades cost more by we make several out-of-state trips and cover players hotels and transportation.

If you check out the Renegades schedule there is no team in the state that plays as tough a schedule. Our site is www.centralfloridarenegades.com. In fact we are playing an exhibition game against the new Belleview team before their season starts and will contact the Leesburg squad as well to see if we can play them before their season opener as they will be great competition for us.

God Bless,

Bob Pincus

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The four lone positive exceptions were Roger Holt (former New York Yankee), Richard Billings (son is LSCC coach), Bob King (Winter Park HS coach), and Kerry Whetro (South Lake HS coach).

All fine coaches. It is surprising not to see Renegade pioneer Tom Klosterman on your list.

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The four lone positive exceptions were Roger Holt (former New York Yankee), Richard Billings (son is LSCC coach), Bob King (Winter Park HS coach), and Kerry Whetro (South Lake HS coach).



All fine coaches. It is surprising not to see Renegade pioneer Tom Klosterman on your list.

Dad04,

You are 100 percent correct that Tom Klosterman should have been on the list. I consider Tom more of an administrator, but he did an outstanding job as a coach for us back in the day. To this day he is a close friend and I'm upset I did not include him on the original list.

Thanks for your input.

Bob