daddy ball - share your stories here

after watching my coach punch his son in the face at 11 playing baseball, I told my Dad I wasn't ever playing for him. He coached another team.

I coached my kids in T-Ball and hoops for a year each. I was so terrible at it that i gave it up.

I've assistant coached and now I just help out on the field. I'm twice as hard on my son than the other kids.... Kinda the opposite of daddy ball....

We had a dad coaching the ",competitive" league in football. He had his kid at QB (of course). The kid wasn't a midget, but he was short for his age. They ran the option most every down. However, when it came time to pass the ball, they brought in another kid to do it or did a halfback pass. Needless to say, it became pretty predictable what they were doing on offense.


Kid doesn't even play football anymore.....

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I've assistant coached and now I just help out on the field. I'm twice as hard on my son than the other kids.... Kinda the opposite of daddy ball....

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I coach my daughter in tee ball. Wouldn't say twice as hard on my daughter,I want them all to have fun, but I am definitely harder on her. Boys are only 2 so haven't crossed that bridge with them yet. I try to do more motivating them and encouraging them and it's worked great. I can't stand the grown men screaming at 5-6 yr old little girls while they are out there learning the sport.

Not daddy ball, but during one of the weetee games last year (4 and 5 yr old girls) a girl was batting and it was obvious the kid hadn't batted much in practice. None of the team had judging by the way they were having trouble holding the bat, etc... The coach on third base is screaming at the girl every time she hits the tee instead of the ball, to turn her hips and follow through. It was all I could do to not punch the guy in the face. Idiot hadn't taught the kid anything, then he's out there in the middle of a game screaming at her about doing things she's never heard of.

That's a good one. I haven't had my kid on a team like that, but I've seen them. Terrible fundamentals, but coach will yell at the top of his lungs anyway.... BLOCK SOMEBODY! Hit somebody!

How about you show them how it's done in practice

And daddy ballers generally make youth sports go IMO. Almost all coaches are volunteers, so who else ya gonna get other than some of the kids' dads

But on use other side of things, there are obviously a lot of people who care about the kids and helping them in life more than sports ECt. I was just trying to find a laugh with the thread, not demean coaches.

If you're coaching they shouldn't be able to pick out your kid from the rest of the team, unless he looks just like you!

ALSO, if the coaching position is a VOLUNTARY position and you didn't volunteer for it, then sit down, shut up and watch the game!

I appreciate a good daddy coach. My only issues have been the ones that don't even try and just say "we just want the kids to have fun". That's BS, sports are more fun when you know what you're doing.

I've heard winning was fun

ETA: to the poster above me, guilty as charged.

Thank you. That made me .

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1) Late in the game. Runner slides into home and the ump calls him out. After the game mom confronts the ump and tells the ump that he screwed up the call, "Her son was safe." Ump says, "Do you mean to tell me that you can call that play better than me and you're all the way up in the stands and I'm standing right there?" Mom says with a smile, "I've called them from a lot farther than that."

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cracks me up at 4am editing and hearing the parents go off at a refs call.
the parents are wrong 95% of the time.