re: Question about youth sports

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I have volunteered a few times for my kids teams and honestly it’s a pain in the arse. Some of the kids are retarded and they make it difficult to focus on the few good players you may have. And the parents usually aren’t much better. My advice is to stick out the season and coach the team yourself next year.

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I'm in this camp. The OP stated that the coach's kid is the best player on the team so it's not really daddy ball since the kid is good. IMO quitting sends the wrong message to your kid, (quit if i don't get my way). I say stick it out and let the message be that if he wants to get more playing time then he needs to work harder to be as good or better than the coach's kid. Working hard outside of practice is what I mean here.

Even if it's an 8-9 year old rec team everyone (coach and kids) wants the team to win and feeding the ball to the best player is how you do that.

If your kid starts driving in making layups and dropping 3s, I'll bet that the coach starts feeding him the ball.