with spring ball about to start for most and summer practices on the horizon, players will unfortunately miss practice for a variety of reasons (grades, family, vacation, etc.)
my question to you is: what's the team rule at where you coach/play when it comes to missing practices?
each practice day= If splitting time both of you there for all practices equal time. miss a day miss 1 quarter.
every year as a coach i struggle with this. i believe that if your player communicates with coaches ahead of time and it's for a valid reason (short vacation, wedding, funeral, recruiting trip) then i wouldn't be as hard on them.
you must take these issues regarding missing practices on a case-by-case basis. they all must make up for lost time in some way, but again if the reason is valid and communicated ahead of time, i would cut them some slack.