Tennis coaches suck

[lone star scribe]

Back when I was doing preps, I fielded a complaint from a parent whose kid wasn't getting his due in the paper. So from then on, every time the kid fumbled, dropped a pass, got beat on coverage, missed a tackle, it was chronicled.

 

[Stone Cane]

No JV sport will get any play as long as I'm working at a paper. I don't deal in absolutes very often, but cheerleading and anything less than varsity level athletics will never appear in a section I produce.

years ago i arrived early for a packed HS hoops game. some JV kid scored 53 points and i threw a brief note about it in the bottom of my gamer. my SE removed it and said we're just opening a can of worms if we mention it.

i thought he was wrong but see his point

 

[-Scoop-]

I've had tennis coaches whine about lack of coverage...but never answer phone calls and never report scores on time. Never ceases to amaze me.

 

[The Granny]

High School Tennis. Enough said.

 

[SoCalDude]

We don't have much trouble with the tennis coaches. They're too stuck up to read the paper anyway.
The biggest bastards are the soccer people. Even in high school, they have that "world's most popular sport" mentality.
And now, we're getting into lacrosse. They come out of the same mold as the soccer folks.

 

[kingcreole]

The biggest bastards are the soccer people. Even in high school, they have that "world's most popular sport" mentality.

That's actually pretty funny, because the soccer folks around here are great ... but maybe that's because I'm a soccer nut.

 

[Damaramu]

The biggest bastards are the soccer people. Even in high school, they have that "world's most popular sport" mentality.

That's actually pretty funny, because the soccer folks around here are great ... but maybe that's because I'm a soccer nut.

Yeah the soccer people around here are cool because when I came on I gave them more coverage than any sports guy in recent memory. Mainly because the guy I succeeded had this "If it's not one of the big 3 it doesn't deserve my time" mentality.

Anyway the girls season starts and they're on the road at a tournament the boys played in back during their season.

During the boys season all we did was briefs for each tournament game then a full story for the the last game that wrapped up the tournament. Then the boys played a home game so I had photos and it was my center package.

Well the girls season starts. They have the tournament. I do what I did with the guys tournament. Then they have a road game and I write a story from a phone interview with the coach. After that I get a call from someone "Yeah I was just wondering why you aren't giving the girls the same treatment as the guys?"

What? They haven't played at home yet! We never even traveled with the guys. They are getting the same treatment.

This was left on a voicemail of course and of course he was wondering but didn't leave me anyway to get back into contact with him. Argh.

Anyway our high school tennis coach is really bad about calling in results. Very bad. But he never complains. He just gets them in late.

Meanwhile his JV coach, Mr. Marble Mouth, calls in right after every tournament ends.

 

[slappy4428]

The biggest bastards are the soccer people. Even in high school, they have that "world's most popular sport" mentality.

That's actually pretty funny, because the soccer folks around here are great ... but maybe that's because I'm a soccer nut.

Yeah the soccer people around here are cool because when I came on I gave them more coverage than any sports guy in recent memory. Mainly because the guy I succeeded had this "If it's not one of the big 3 it doesn't deserve my time" mentality.

Anyway the girls season starts and they're on the road at a tournament the boys played in back during their season.

During the boys season all we did was briefs for each tournament game then a full story for the the last game that wrapped up the tournament. Then the boys played a home game so I had photos and it was my center package.

Well the girls season starts. They have the tournament. I do what I did with the guys tournament. Then they have a road game and I write a story from a phone interview with the coach. After that I get a call from someone "Yeah I was just wondering why you aren't giving the girls the same treatment as the guys?"

What? They haven't played at home yet! We never even traveled with the guys. They are getting the same treatment.

This was left on a voicemail of course and of course he was wondering but didn't leave me anyway to get back into contact with him. Argh.

Anyway our high school tennis coach is really bad about calling in results. Very bad. But he never complains. He just gets them in late.

Meanwhile his JV coach, Mr. Marble Mouth, calls in right after every tournament ends.

One of the interns at a paper I know real well knows soccer more than he should.
He likes to impress himself with what he knows by writing things like "leveled the match" instead of, you know, tied the score.
He's been asked to keep things simple. He says OK. He then goes out and continues to impress himself.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

One time, I was previewing local school's cross country team. I interview the coach, who says very little that was quotable, but he did say 'we've got some really fast runners.'

Now, the quote may not be grammatically correct, but I ran it as it was said. Next day, I receive a nasty voice message from the coach about making him look bad over using the term 'we've got'. He later calls my ME, who spends half the day trying to calm him down. The coach wanted a correction at first over the word 'got', but didn't receive it.

For the rest of the season, whenever I would be at the school for any other sport, coach would run up and tell the person I was interviewing "Don't talk to him, he'll make you look bad." I went to the school's AD. The next year, he was an assistant coach on a junior high team.

 

[Stone Cane]

what the hell is wrong with saying, "We've got some fast runners?"

quotes are conversational and don't need to be in the King's English

looks like a normal quote to me

weird dude

 

[SixToe]

"We have got some fast runners."

That sounds stupid.

The coach was equally stupid for complaining and continuing to be an ass about it.

 

[Diabeetus]

Tennis sucks, especially at the high school level. Can't think of anything more boring.

Cross country.

The tennis coaches I deal with are two of the best coaches I work with.

 

[fossywriter8]

Best one-liner quote from a coach: "Who'd a-thunk it?"
From a local small-school football coach describing a key play. The editor (not sports editor) wanted to change it to "Who'd have thought it?" because the coach coached the team from her alma mater. Her wish was not granted.

Tennis coach gripe: Coaches who report their kids' and/or teams' scores first, no matter if they win or lose (Really Bad High lost 0-5. Billy Stumbleton lost 0-6, 0-6 at No. 1 singles, etc..).
Volleyball coaches are a close second in the same vein with team scores, especially now that Ohio has gone to best of five with rally scoring.
Is it really that hard to put the winning score first?

 

[DanOregon]

Did a big write-up of a high school lacrosse team getting ready for a big regional or statewide tourney (this was before it was a league sport). The coach had been campaigning for some ink so we blow the story out, pictures, the whole bit. We tell them we can't travel to the tourney so they'll have to call it in. Nobody called that Saturday. (Early 90s - no cell phone yet). Called Monday, "oh, we lost, so we didn't call." I'm pissed. The editor is pissed. When a sport wants to be taken seriously, their coaches should start acting like it.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Best one-liner quote from a coach: "Who'd a-thunk it?"
From a local small-school football coach describing a key play. The editor (not sports editor) wanted to change it to "Who'd have thought it?" because the coach coached the team from her alma mater. Her wish was not granted.

Tennis coach gripe: Coaches who report their kids' and/or teams' scores first, no matter if they win or lose (Really Bad High lost 0-5. Billy Stumbleton lost 0-6, 0-6 at No. 1 singles, etc..).
Volleyball coaches are a close second in the same vein with team scores, especially now that Ohio has gone to best of five with rally scoring.
Is it really that hard to put the winning score first?

I've noticed that girls lacrosse coaches often give the losing score first if their team lost.

 

[JBHawkEye]

One of our area high schools held its annual girls track meet Tuesday night. When it was over, the host school extended its winning streak in the event to 11 years.

One problem — the team scores were wrong. The error was discovered Wednesday night by the coach of the second-place team. He e-mailed us and the host school Thursday morning, pointing out the mistake. The host school coach added the scores again, and sure enough, the second-place team had won. So we did a story for today's paper saying the team results were screwed up, explained what had happened, and published the new team scores, along with quoting everybody involved.

This morning, we got a smart-ass e-mail from the parent of one of the runners of the second-place team. "So, are you going to rewrite your story that you ran the other day, so you can give our kids the proper credit?"

 

[Diabeetus]

Best one-liner quote from a coach: "Who'd a-thunk it?"
From a local small-school football coach describing a key play. The editor (not sports editor) wanted to change it to "Who'd have thought it?" because the coach coached the team from her alma mater. Her wish was not granted.

Tennis coach gripe: Coaches who report their kids' and/or teams' scores first, no matter if they win or lose (Really Bad High lost 0-5. Billy Stumbleton lost 0-6, 0-6 at No. 1 singles, etc..).
Volleyball coaches are a close second in the same vein with team scores, especially now that Ohio has gone to best of five with rally scoring.
Is it really that hard to put the winning score first?

Having played tennis most of my life, I (and everybody else) is taught to read your score first. I don't think it's anything intentional...just the way you do it when you play.

 

[AgatePage]

Best one-liner quote from a coach: "Who'd a-thunk it?"
From a local small-school football coach describing a key play. The editor (not sports editor) wanted to change it to "Who'd have thought it?" because the coach coached the team from her alma mater. Her wish was not granted.

Tennis coach gripe: Coaches who report their kids' and/or teams' scores first, no matter if they win or lose (Really Bad High lost 0-5. Billy Stumbleton lost 0-6, 0-6 at No. 1 singles, etc..).
Volleyball coaches are a close second in the same vein with team scores, especially now that Ohio has gone to best of five with rally scoring.
Is it really that hard to put the winning score first?

I've noticed that girls lacrosse coachesevery girls sport often give the losing score first if their team lost.

fixed

 

[ColbertNation]

My favorite came a couple weeks ago. It was the last 30 seconds of Davidson's tourney loss (I think they were down 3 with the ball and less than 30 seconds), and local Community College guy calls with his tennis scores. It was an exercise in peripheral vision to type results and watch the game at the same time. Guy next to me said I should have told them I was having computer problems and to call back in 10 minutes. I think I will next time.