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re: Proud dads, at which point did you realize you are not a coach?
Posted on 9/9/19 at 12:01 pm to white beans
Posted on 9/9/19 at 12:01 pm to white beans
When a former Saints player decided to volunteer and showed us that we were actually idiots... the kids ended up learning the right way to play , they would run through a wall for him and he never raised his voice other to tell them to not use their head while tackling.
I like it though when some of the travel ball coaches get shown up by the principal at Lake Castle who used to double as the head baseball coach. Morbid and arseinclass know who I'm speaking about
I like it though when some of the travel ball coaches get shown up by the principal at Lake Castle who used to double as the head baseball coach. Morbid and arseinclass know who I'm speaking about
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Posted on 9/9/19 at 12:20 pm to white beans
A buddy of mine and I coached our son's in baseball from T-ball until kid pitch, like 6 years or so. It was always just for fun, we weren't super serious, we didn't have any Kaydens or Braxtons on our team just normal kids lol
Posted on 9/9/19 at 12:22 pm to KiwiHead
The kind of fools I am talking about would scuzz the former Saints player to the kids, convince the administration that he was an idiot and bad for the culture, and tell the guy to hit the road.
lol at some of the blind assumptions about me and salty generalizations being made in this thread, almost like it struck a nerve in some. you are probably not a coach!
lol at some of the blind assumptions about me and salty generalizations being made in this thread, almost like it struck a nerve in some. you are probably not a coach!
Posted on 9/9/19 at 12:58 pm to white beans
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you are probably not a coach!
I don't pretend to be.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 12:58 pm to Darth_Vader
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And I think one of the most important decisions I made was to accept my limitations.
Good for you. Seriously. The problem I see is a lot of 'coaches' out there volunteering after never having played AND they haven't done the leg work to learn anything. they are simply there to make sure their son gets to play. If/when that time comes and someone is needed, I'd gladly do the same as you.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 12:59 pm to KiwiHead
wasn't directed at you, was to the others that are on here acting like I'm some kind of maniac suggesting that there are a lot of goons out there that don't have any business coaching anybody.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 1:18 pm to white beans
I am very appreciative of the guys that coach my kids sports teams. I don’t always agree with they way they handle playing time for for all the other kids that don’t start, but I dont envy their position and sure as hell wouldn’t want to do it. At the end of the season I give the coaches gift cards to Chris’ so they can go enjoy a steak and know that my family appreciates the work they put in
Posted on 9/9/19 at 3:10 pm to Fat and Happy
First day of practice there were 40 eight year old kids show up. My son missed the 4th day of practice. When we returned on the 5th day, “Tommy Lasorda” tells me, “your kid is on that team over there”.
He had evaluated and purged the players he wanted to be on his “A” team.
So we proceed to the other side of the field. No coach, there are 27 kids just running around playing grab arse.
So myself and another dad took the reigns and tried to coach the “B” team.
That’s when
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the Parents of 8 year olds started crying cause i was hitting hot grounders at their boys
We didn’t win many games but everyone got to bat and they all learned how to get in front of a hot grounder.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 3:32 pm to white beans
A bigger problem is the large number of Dads that have not accepted the reality that their kid will never play a college or pro sport of any kind.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 7:09 pm to Golfer
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Because people like you complain but never volunteer. It’s youth sports. Chill.
Exactly, I was the only one who stepped up to coach. I knew little about coaching the sport, but went to all the clinics and bought books on coaching each year. I gave it up 9 years later and turned it over to someone who did that for a living. Nobody else ever stepped up. Wasn't angry about it and it was the best time ever with my child.
I always kept it fun for the kids and never got too intense. Always have fun is what they heard at every game and practice. Do it, you will love it and your child will ALWAYS remember that you were there for them.
Posted on 9/9/19 at 8:38 pm to white beans
I'm thankful for the people that coached my son's baseball teams, except for one.
All of them knew the game and worked well with the kids. If you gave the ability, please step up so kids can learn and play. I didn't have the knowledge, and am not particularly good with kids, as some aren't.
The one that wasn't was a disaster. He was new to the league, and picked his team with a clearly racial agenda, which was odd. Before that, teams had always been chosen without any bias that I could see. He did try to teach them, before games started, but then they didn't practice at all during the season. Before one game, he heard a parent in the stands complain about playing time. I wasn't there yet, but he thought if had been my wife, and got in her face. She can take care of herself, and let him have a piece of her mind. If I had been there it would have come to blows. We went to the league and were told that he would never coach there again. The team sadly didn't win a single game.
One bad experience out of many years, but unfortunately that was my son's last year. So, please volunteer so leagues won't desperately let guys like that coach.
All of them knew the game and worked well with the kids. If you gave the ability, please step up so kids can learn and play. I didn't have the knowledge, and am not particularly good with kids, as some aren't.
The one that wasn't was a disaster. He was new to the league, and picked his team with a clearly racial agenda, which was odd. Before that, teams had always been chosen without any bias that I could see. He did try to teach them, before games started, but then they didn't practice at all during the season. Before one game, he heard a parent in the stands complain about playing time. I wasn't there yet, but he thought if had been my wife, and got in her face. She can take care of herself, and let him have a piece of her mind. If I had been there it would have come to blows. We went to the league and were told that he would never coach there again. The team sadly didn't win a single game.
One bad experience out of many years, but unfortunately that was my son's last year. So, please volunteer so leagues won't desperately let guys like that coach.
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