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Coach's strategy for not talking to the press

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by ScribePharisee, Feb 12, 2009.

  1. SCEditor

    SCEditor Active Member

    We had a local volleyball coach who didn't call in results. At the end of the season, we didn't name a player from her team to our all-area volleyball team. A couple days later, a player's parent e-mails and wants to know why her daughter's team wasn't represented on our all-area volleyball team. I explain to the parent that the coach hadn't called in results all year, so we don't know anything about the team, and if we weren't important enough to call with game results, we certainly weren't important enough to include any of their players on the all-area volleyball team.

    This same coach also coaches girls basketball. Since our all-area volleyball team was announced, she's been calling her results in.
     
  2. ScribePharisee

    ScribePharisee New Member

    From what I know the parents have been asked and they defer to the coach because in their estimation, "he's a great coach."
     
  3. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member


    Translation: I don't want to rock the boat and have the bastard take it out on junior.
     
  4. Coach Jack D. Ripper explains his new interview policy.

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  5. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company!
     
  6. 2underpar

    2underpar Active Member

    go over the moron coach's head to the AD or the principal and explain the situation. if that doesn't work, what diego said.
     
  7. mustangj17

    mustangj17 Active Member

    That's dumb. It's not like swimming or track where you can see the entire slate of times and plan your lineup accordingly. Oh wait the kid in the 171 pound class won.

    What does that tell you? Nothing other than he is better than the other kid, who could suck, or be awesome. So still, it doesn't say much.
     
  8. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Presumably, You could tinker with your weight classes.
     
  9. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    In the entire history of swimming or wrestling has there been one instance where a team lost a dual meet because the other team's coach read results in the paper and stacked his lineup accordingly?
    I'd like to know of one documented case where it has happened.
     
  10. partain

    partain Member

    I think I'd have some fun by covering (in as much detail as possible, no less) every meet they had for the rest of the season.
     
  11. JBHawkEye

    JBHawkEye Well-Known Member

    We had a prep baseball coach do this a few years ago. Never called in a game, or weekly stats. Last week of the season, he calls in his stats and says, "I didn't want to give anyone a scouting report on our team."

    Then he starts bitching at me because of a feature we did on a kid who was one of the top hitters in the area. Coach starts telling me how one of his players was better than this kid. I said, "Well, if you would have been calling in your stats, we would have known that."

    He had no response.
     
  12. Sam Craig

    Sam Craig Member

    It's been my experience that wrestling coaches will moan and groan about coverage but they are the worst at promoting their own sport -- like calling in results or sending preseason info.
     
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