How to tell the coach that I don't want to play varsity?

pasta_paul

So this is how my high school basketball team system works: There are two teams, frosh-soph and varsity. Varsity is mainly for juniors and seniors, but every year, a few good sophomores get bumped up to varsity. I happened to be one of them this year. While tryouts haven't officially begun yet, the varsity coach told me to come to their open gyms and says that I will end up trying out for the varsity team (if I get cut from varsity, I...

Originally asked by user14158 on Stack Exchange (sports) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

This will be a long comment. Best thing you could do is to have a discussion with your coach about this issue and be confident on why you want to drop down. Is there anything that may cause you to reconsider is worth noting and may help in discussion. If I am a coach and someone comes to me and says I don't want to play ..., the first question I would ask is why , so be able to explain that. So, just explain him why moving down will be a better move for you and how it helps in you getting better. If you show consistency, improvement in your performance it will not affect your chances of making varsity next year.

Full answer by Ram Chandra Giri: https://sports.stackexchange.com/a/17154 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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