My HS players take November/December off except for pro workouts. Most of the perfect game stuff raps up in October. These dudes throw entirely too much. Need some time to shut it down.
Apparently my son's futsal coach has been having an affair with a mom of one of the other players and everyone found out last night.
…that is why I take my son to futsal practices. How did people find out? Was there a dramatic scene or something spicy?
I guess coaches wife showed up to practice last night for the older group (his best team) and let everyone know. The mom had a kid on the older team and my son's team. She just got divorced too.
I kept a really raw kid on my 9th grade basketball team this year. He's never played organized basketball but he's a great athlete, good kid and a hard worker. He's not going to embarrass the program and may even end up being useful in a couple years. I met his mom the other day and she was incredibly nice. Told me she knew nothing about basketball but was wondering if all 9th grade teams were so bad.
Police were called at the 8 year old girls basketball game this morning (next court over from our game). A parent took issue with something and smacked the opposing coach in the face.
My buddy put a 60’ batting cage in his backyard over Christmas with a hack attack, rhapsodo, etc Went over today and hit a 95mph EV/345’ dinger Still got it
I feel bad for that kid because he shouldn’t lose friends over his moms behavior but the you should be ashamed of yourself! Text is hilarious
Soccer tournament this weekend At the end of the game a parent started across the field yelling at the coach and ended up taking a swing at the coach.
im not sure…it was a travel tournament and it ended up both teams from the same club and the teams share coaches. I believe his issue was the coach was coaching the other team harder than he ever coached his kids team.
that’s pretty normal. Saw that mid game at a baseball tournament last spring. Same team. Youth sports are dark. Coach and I think parent or assistant coach were throwing at each other. we had an opposing coach yell at his players to run over our kids in (non contact) flag football which caused a 10 minute game stoppage.
I’m sure I’ve said it at least three times in this thread but it’s only getting worse… having a social media account for your kids and sports can’t be great for their long term mental health. I follow a bunch of youth soccer trainers so my IG suggestions can get cluttered with kids associated with those trainers…. Seeing way too many handles with “2017” and “2018” at the end. Your 6 year old shouldn’t be part of the grindset.
Agreed, although it's likely those kids aren't even managing those accounts. And just to play devil's advocate, if I'm a parent managing my kid's sports social media account, that allows me to filter what he/she ultimately sees. So if I post a video of my son making a great save and just showing him comments of people saying how great of a job he did, that can really help with building confidence. But that obviously requires knowing how to set boundaries, which I find so many parents are awful at.
My kid is 8 and doesn't even know what social media is. I don't plan on letting them have any form of social media until they are well into high school.
Oh they’re definitely parent managed and I think the big driver here is parent egos. Once in a blue moon I’ll post something from my kids because I’m proud of what they’re doing and what they’ve become. The routine posting on behalf of a kid is over the top.
setting up an account to market your eight year old on social media is deranged behavior, and nowhere near posting a highlight of your kid because you're proud of them.
Mine know about TikTock because Mrs. Scorpio is on it constantly. But agreed. They're not getting phones until 13 at the earliest. And whatever I need to install to block social media apps will be on those phones. I know there are workarounds, but they're gonna have to put in SOME effort to go behind our backs, lol.
One 2016 at our club has an instagram with like 10k followers. Dad tries to justify it as he is giving her an investment going forward. So many dumb things about youth soccer.
Started flag football last week and my son is in the K-2 division which feels like the last time we will be in a sports league with parents who are mostly all just having a fun time while their kids play around. one good thing about this league is that parents watch from behind the end zones and not the sidelines. So 90% of the time you don’t even know what’s exactly going on. So that helps alleviate parents being on top of everything.
We opened registration for our league yesterday. One division had to wait list kids before 9am on the first day of sign ups. I’m gonna adjust the teams around a bit to give more teams to that age group but we ended with over 40 kids on the wait list in that age so some who signed up on day 1 won’t get in which will understandably piss off some parents.
We’re in the under armor under the lights league and across the divisions it’s over 700 kids. It’s crazy how big it is. Probably hard to really tell from the picture how many people are out there.
Just signed our 3 year old up for soccer for the first time. Ready to berate the other children when they come in late on a tackle.
just hope the parents stay off the field and don’t want to walk their kids around holding their hands.
It's genuinely insane to me how many stories from multiple posters there are of parents fighting coaches or other people on the field.
lol well nobody is fighting in this instance but it makes for a miserable experience when kids are trying to learn to run and kick the ball and there are parents all over the field. if a kid needs that there are other programs available.
I don’t remember kids tackling at that age. Basically they play bunch ball in a huge clump following the ball around the field.
I’m not saying I have ever come remotely close to fighting but it’s very easy to fathom how it could happen. People get insane when their kids are competing. They turn into different people.