It's middle school girls basketball

[Calvin Hobbes]

http://www.starbeacon.com/local/local_story_048195700.html

Why would anyone want to be a coach now?

 

[Blitz]

Put his ass in jail.
Now.
Get your witnesses interviewed, visit the piece of crap, arrest him for intimidation, endangerment or whatever the name of the proper charge is.
Let him sit in jail for a minute or two and think about what he's done.

 

[Bullwinkle]

And that's why I don't read the newspapers.

Because they're garbage!

If you don't want to play a daughter, one of my daughter's, then bench the one that doesn't do everything right. If you've ever been a father, and had a daughter who was told she was FAT...and came home crying...then you'd know how it feels. But you've never had a daughter, have you?

So I read today that I...that I made threats. That's not true! And I left a post-it note on the door? THAT'S NOT TRUE!  

 

[Blitz]

I have a daughter, yes. One daughter.
If she doesn't play, I will encourage her to keep looking for something she can excel at.

 

[Blitz]

I won't harrass coaches.
Even if I think he or she knows the game of basketball, or whatever sport it is.
There's bigger things in life, I'll tell my daughter.

 

[mustangj17]

And that's why I don't read the newspapers.

Because they're garbage!

If you don't want to play a daughter, one of my daughter's, then bench the one that doesn't do everything right. If you've ever been a father, and had a daughter who was told she was FAT...and came home crying...then you'd know how it feels. But you've never had a daughter, have you?

So I read today that I...that I made threats. That's not true! And I left a post-it note on the door? THAT'S NOT TRUE!

What just happened?

 

[Bullwinkle]

This guy is a man! He's 40!

(And evidently, I failed miserably)

 

[mustangj17]

This guy is a man! He's 40!

(And evidently, I failed miserably)

Oh.... I see what you did there.

 

[kingcreole]

Mr. Tough Guy, huh?

Geezus, I'm planning on coaching my daughter's now-infamous softball team this summer. While excited, the notion of going through what the coaches went through last year worries me.

 

[crusoes]

We had a dad like that go nuts at a JV volleyball match two years ago, attacking and hitting a ref. He went to jail, paid a fine and is banned, I believe, from most every sporting venue in our state. Definitely banned from seeing his daughter ever play a sport, home or away, in high school. She's a senior now.

At another school, a parent went to the softball coach's house and got into a fight with him in the coach's driveway. No charges were filed, but the coach retired the same year the guy's daughter graduated from the eighth grade. Same dad would call the football coach on a Friday night and leave drunken rants on the phone. On at least two occasions, the son called the coach, in tears, and beg him not to take any not to what his dad said and also assured the coach he did not agree with his dad. The son's calls came right after the dad's.

Hobbes is right. You wonder why anyone coaches. I'm glad they do.

 

[lone star scribe]

I attended a HS soccer game where a father was yelling stuff at the refs, accusing them of favoritism, calling out fouls, calling out opposing players' numbers for retribution.

His daughter started screaming from the field at her father to shut up. I felt so sorry for her. People applauded when the jerk was ejected from the stands.

 

[Notepad]

You only write about us when our dad threatens our middle school coach, shows up at his house and leaves a note on his door.

 

[zagoshe]

The biggest problem is parents unrealistic ideas about (a) how good their kids are (b) what sports are supposed to be.

I see this all the time -- I have a friend who drives me nuts because he's always talking about how great his kids are -- in midget ****ing football and in rec. soccer leagues or whatever.

He is going to be one of those dads -- in fact he already is because he got banned from his local soccer association for making so many waves about stuff and being such a pain in the ass because his older son didn't make the "a" team but was on the "b" team.

In the grand scheme of things, who gives a rat's ass about this?

If he is on the A or B team -- he is still playing soccer and that's all that matters.

These people are ****ing idiots.

 

[EmbassyRow]

Why EmbassyRow Will Never Have Children, Reason No. 4

 

[Smallpotatoes]

I attended a HS soccer game where a father was yelling stuff at the refs, accusing them of favoritism, calling out fouls, calling out opposing players' numbers for retribution.

His daughter started screaming from the field at her father to shut up. I felt so sorry for her. People applauded when the jerk was ejected from the stands.

And there are parents who think getting ejected from their kids' games is a badge of honor.

 

[BadgerBeer]

A good friend was a very established HS basketball coach. Many titles, many D1 players and a couple of pros. Any hoo...during one of his last years coaching he keeps a kid on the team that was not very good but loved the game. Coach told him that he would probably not get any time but as a kid that loved the game he would be happy to have him on his team. Get some run in practice, tell your kids you played varsity, yada yada yada. As the season develops coach gets called into the AD office...kid's mom complained that because coach would not play her kid Jr. would not be able to reach his goal of playing in the NBA.

Coach laughed and walked out of the office(he could do that as he was one of the best in the state).

Young coach that follows in job now gets crap from parents all the time and the AD constantly calls him into office. He can not just laugh and walk out. Why would anyone want to coach in this day and age?

 

[Ace]

For prep writers searching for a story, I bet if you talked to several of your coaches you'd find that they had similar incidents -- hopefully not as scary and intimidating.

Might make for a good story.

 

[zagoshe]

One of my all-time favorites -- and not in a good way -- from my days of covering preps in small town America -- was a letter to the editor complaing about our lack of coverage of local Catholic high school soccer team -- yeah, the one which was every bit of 0-12 and playing in the lowest division in an area where soccer is ****ty to begin with.

The letter went on and on -- from a parent no doubt but it was annonymous -- and ended with the whole 'costing kids a chance at scholarships...."

My boss decides to go meet with coach and players parents to talk about the issue and see if he can't come to some sort of a resolution.

He reads letter, about three-quarters of way through it, coach just sort of starts laughing and says to our boss "look, I don't know what that is all about but our kids are just learning and having fun" -- or something like this.

Woman who wrote letter then outs herself by going ape**** on coach in front of everybody and saying it is his job to get the kids recognition.

It was an awkward, embarrassing and ugly moment as I've witnessed as the coach quietly said "I'm just not cut out for this any more (he was a super nice guy who obviously was doing it because he liked coaching and whatnot)" and he told the principal that he'd finish the season and that would be his last year.

And that was that.

A good coach, who had a realistic sense of what he was working with and kept it in perspective quits because of some asshole parent who thinks her son is the next pele.

And that is where we are at in America.

 

[JakeandElwood]

One of my all-time favorites -- and not in a good way -- from my days of covering preps in small town America -- was a letter to the editor complaing about our lack of coverage of local Catholic high school soccer team -- yeah, the one which was every bit of 0-12 and playing in the lowest division in an area where soccer is ****ty to begin with.

The letter went on and on -- from a parent no doubt but it was annonymous -- and ended with the whole 'costing kids a chance at scholarships...."

My boss decides to go meet with coach and players parents to talk about the issue and see if he can't come to some sort of a resolution.

He reads letter, about three-quarters of way through it, coach just sort of starts laughing and says to our boss "look, I don't know what that is all about but our kids are just learning and having fun" -- or something like this.

Woman who wrote letter then outs herself by going ape**** on coach in front of everybody and saying it is his job to get the kids recognition.

It was an awkward, embarrassing and ugly moment as I've witnessed as the coach quietly said "I'm just not cut out for this any more (he was a super nice guy who obviously was doing it because he liked coaching and whatnot)" and he told the principal that he'd finish the season and that would be his last year.

And that was that.

A good coach, who had a realistic sense of what he was working with and kept it in perspective quits because of some asshole parent who thinks her son is the next pele.

And that is where we are at in America.

That's an awful story Zag. Parents are just insane now.

 

[Bamadog]

One of my all-time favorites -- and not in a good way -- from my days of covering preps in small town America -- was a letter to the editor complaing about our lack of coverage of local Catholic high school soccer team -- yeah, the one which was every bit of 0-12 and playing in the lowest division in an area where soccer is ****ty to begin with.

The letter went on and on -- from a parent no doubt but it was annonymous -- and ended with the whole 'costing kids a chance at scholarships...."

My boss decides to go meet with coach and players parents to talk about the issue and see if he can't come to some sort of a resolution.

He reads letter, about three-quarters of way through it, coach just sort of starts laughing and says to our boss "look, I don't know what that is all about but our kids are just learning and having fun" -- or something like this.

Woman who wrote letter then outs herself by going ape**** on coach in front of everybody and saying it is his job to get the kids recognition.

It was an awkward, embarrassing and ugly moment as I've witnessed as the coach quietly said "I'm just not cut out for this any more (he was a super nice guy who obviously was doing it because he liked coaching and whatnot)" and he told the principal that he'd finish the season and that would be his last year.

And that was that.

A good coach, who had a realistic sense of what he was working with and kept it in perspective quits because of some asshole parent who thinks her son is the next pele.

And that is where we are at in America.

Anyone ever read Pat Conroy's "The Great Santini?" Now there are a lot more Bull Meachum-type sports parents. Unfortunate.

Everybody feels "entitled" to coverage because "the kids work hard." That phrase always makes me laugh.