re: Parent Punches Vandebilt Catholic Baseball Coach Days After Winning State Championship

Well then Coach should have "made an example" out of him right then and there.

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Who do you argue it with? No excuse for what the parent did, but Coaches have their own agendas too and I’ve seen so often kids playing and getting opportunities in which they were not the better athlete or player

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You don’t argue with anyone. I find it hard to believe that the coach decided in a championship game to not play a senior who had been a major contributor all year just to be a sick and push an agenda.

The coach’s only agenda that game was to win a championship.

My guess, and it is just a guess, is that the kid got in some kind of trouble and the coach benched him and dad got mad.

Or maybe it was just as simple as the kid being the #2 pitcher and didn’t get in the game because the game got called early due to the mercy rule.

Either way, punching the coach after having 3-4 days to cool down is just bad on every level.

It’s Ok to be disappointed but use it as a teaching moment for the kid and stress that even though he didn’t play in the championship game, he was a critical part of them just getting to play in that game. Think someone earlier mentioned that he helped win the other 2 playoff games.

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quote: If you think it’s OK to post a family pic with 3 underage kids because the dad was an a-hole, then you might be a bigger a-hole than he is.

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Don't blame me for the pic, blame you stupid frickers who think Facebook or other social mediums are a part of everyday life.

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Of course it isn’t YOUR fault that YOU decided to post the pic of the whole family. It’s society’s fault. Nice deflection, hypocrite.

Seriously though, what ‘transparency’ is there…it’s the coach’s job to make those decisions.

My son had to play out of position, that he damn sure earned, this year and they won state still…WTF you gonna say? Deal with it. If anyone tells the coach something it’s my son’s place to do it. Suck it up, either go out there with a smile and do your best or quit.

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Who do you argue it with? No excuse for what the parent did, but Coaches have their own agendas too and I’ve seen so often kids playing and getting opportunities in which they were not the better athlete or player. Since we expect parents to help the program, fundraise, work and get things done for the program, make sure the kids attend practice and all those things, coaches should offer some transparency.

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Yeah they have their own agenda which is to win ballgames. Parents are often too blind to see that their kid either sucks or whoever is playing ahead of them is just better. One of my buddies coaches middle school football and basketball and you’d be amazed at the ridiculous shite parents bring to him. He used to beat around the bush but now he just straight up tells them “sorry, your kid just isn’t good enough to get more playing time.” He's had parents pull their kids out and send them to other schools just to go sit the bench there too.

Until my junior year my own parents would gripe to me that our coach should be playing me more. They never said anything to the coach because I wouldn’t dare let them. The fact of the matter was it was obvious to myself and every other person at our practices that I didn’t deserve playing time over certain guys at that point. I guarantee the kid in this scenario understands what playing time he deserved much more than his POS dad.

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Coaches have their own agendas

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man i guess....but i have never seen a coach play anyone that he didnt think gave him the best chance to win unless the game was out of hand eitehr way, a kid got in trouble or some other similar circumstance. Coaches want to win.


I will say this....i watched VC #1 against St Louis and he was a frickign stud and the only reason they won that game pretty much. If he is available....you pitch him period.

Dad is a piece of shite. Any parent that tries to interfere with a coaches decision on playing time is a piece of shite. parents that think because they contribute that their kid deserves playing time is a piece of shite.

Its ok to go ask the coach where you kid is and where he needs to improve(as a parent you should prolly already know this), but anything more then that....yea frick right off.


I didnt play much in football until my senior year. Didnt play at all in baseball until junior year and was only part time starter until then. You wait your fricking turn and put in the work.

Want more playing time??? out work everyone else. Cant expect to just do the team workouts and do the same as everyone else and suddenly pass those ahead of you up. Doesnt work like that.

All true, and I want to add this… in a state championship game situation where you have to win one game for the title… or lose it… it’s the coach’s responsibility to win it, start to finish. And you don’t let up even if you’re up big. You keep your foot on the neck of the other team, because they are championship caliber too. All bets and prior promises are off. You give the coach the leeway to win the game.

Because if he loses the game… he gets 100% of the blame.

Victory has a hundred fathers, but a loss always an orphan. And a championship loss is the worst loss of all.

Every member of a championship team gets credit for a championship. Even kids who don’t play at all. To be angry after a win like that is ridiculous.

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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Gee thanks dad. I wouldn't be surprised mom hasn't gotten some of that anger in the past.

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She is, quite possibly, the source of the anger to begin with.

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Parent Punches Vandebilt Catholic Baseball Coach Days After Winning State Championship

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What can we as a civilized society do to stop this epidemic? It seems like every day a new story like this pops up. I personally know several young people who would have made great coaches but avoided it as a career because of crap like this. The kids end up losing out on great people and role models because of a few crazy parents.

It seems to be constantly getting worse. What can be done?

What’s lost in all of this is that U-high was mercy ruled. That’s pretty surprising.

On another note, the semis and championship rounds NOT being best 2/3 is retarded.