Had a dad ejected from our jv basketball game the other day. Our team is terrible, largely empty gym. The dad is cursing at the red from the top row. Ref stops the game, talks to the coach, coach has to find an administrator and have him removed. Huge seen. His kid was horrified.
Now that football season is done and baseball season hasn’t begun i roam around SoCal youth soccer fields looking for parents, refs, and children to fight.
I mean…yea the kids get intimidated by it and just stand there. to each their own but I saw different teams handle it both ways and the kids always seemed to have more fun when they were left to themselves with just the coaches. I’m not trying to make it like the soccer is serious at all.
The best I’ve seen is the game before us in a tournament when two teams from the same association were playing for a championship. The coaches (non-parent) needed to be separated.
A friend told me a story recently about a dad who was commissioner and a coach in his child's 7 year old tee ball rec league. The guy not only rigged the draft in his own favor but he recruited kids from the next town over to come play for his own team and didn't include their names in the draft. I've heard of stuff like that happening at higher levels but never 7 year old rec league tee ball. I cannot even imagine being such a pathetic loser that you feel the need to do any of that much less all of it.
I doubt it was t ball with 7 year olds. 7 is old enough to draft. Otherwise you will have dickheads completely stacking teams.
I could've sworn he said tee ball but maybe you're right. You'd know better than I as you know these folks and the league.
At that age you’re looking at some kind of rule where the kids get 3 or 5 swings to hit coach pitch and then they go to the tee. I believe after spring break they remove the tee option and go straight to strikeouts. You can make teams unfair super easily because at 6-7 is when the better players really begin to separate.
To follow up on this, our team of ‘rejects’ won another tournament this weekend. They’re playing at a C level and beat 2 C teams by about 20 and a B team that was playing down to C by 4 points. We are 10-2 on the season and his team is ranked ahead of one of the two C teams from the association they were cut from. (The website that lists tournaments, brackets, etc collects the game info and an algorithm spits out rankings based on point differential, opponent strength, etc.).
Some good and bad lately.. The bad: had to cut a really nice kid from our baseball program. We have a group of 19 freshman that can really play. Kind of pushed out some 10th graders from the jv team. Worst part of coaching. Anyway, the mom told a local travel coach (that played for us and we have a great relationship with) that we cut her son and she "will have fucking revenge. " So that's kind of ominous. Also, a parent called our basketball coach a mother fucker to the school secretary. Middle of the school day in a crowded office. The good: been struggling with not coaching my son in his first year of T-ball. I just don't have the time. Took him to his first practice today and it was awesome. He had a great time and the coaches were super nice and did a great job with them. At one point he said "my daddy taught me this, he's a baseball man." All time proud dad moment.
It’s funny, I think it’s better to have someone else coach my kid and just get to be a parent. I think most parent coaches are tougher on their own kids and in many cases, sacrifice what’s in their own child’s best interests for the sake of the team/perception of impartiality.
Yesterday was evaluations for my daughter’s soccer league. It’s always a weird feeling judging kids out there like it’s a normal thing to do. It is always nice having the girls I coached before running up and saying hi coach and asking me to draft them again. My daughter after having been an exceptionally average player the entire time she’s played somehow woke up the soccer player inside of her during the offseason program the club runs and was rated a 5 yesterday
My kid is pretty average so I like being able to put him in the best place for him to thrive without showing preferential treatment. If your kid is the best player out there I could see how it would be beneficial to not be the head coach.
My 10 yo son’s baseball year was egregious with the other adults/coaches treating 6-8 year olds like livestock. Listening to whistles, catcalls, etc over being able to throw 60’ was an eye opener to the absurdity of youth sports for me.
The guy I work for is already in the Hall of Fame for coaches in Georgia. Universally respected, awesome man. We've got a great relationship and have won a ton since i started with him. Generally when he and I disagree, he turns out to be right. Worst we ever butted heads was over his son. As a freshman, his son was clearly our best option at a position of real need. He just wouldn't pull the trigger. Finally we put him out there and he was great for four years. It's a tough spot when it's your kid.
Lol wrong sport. I know some successful HS football coaches and even for low 6 figures, the work/life balance is way worse than what I do.
I always give my kids the ball on the first play of the season in flag football. The rest of the time I try and keep it as even for everyone as I can. One year my son took it for a 60 yd TD. My daughters first time ran backwards for a safety
I had to do the coaches kids ranking and there was one that I would have put at the end of the draft completely in the like hand out area. 10+. I put him 7th round and the dad told me I was very kind. At least he was realistic.
Had first “too serious” team in K-2 flag football. Running all sorts of misdirection and doing this thing where the RB put his hands down for the snap next to the qb for what is basically an instant handoff. And all the misdirection just meant to confuse the 6 year olds on the defense. their coach would like them up and then step in to choose directions as he was obviously wanting to run towards the side with the younger players defending. And yes it “works” but just hate that it’s to confuse the defense and not letting the kids just play. Basically it’s a grown adult trying to confuse little kids to win. 33-12 final score.
Our football team is coached by a 15 year old older brother of one of the players. He’s a great kid and plays in Orlando city’s pro soccer academy. His mom also helps him out a lot as far as supervision and keeping things in the right direction. but he treats his brother like his little brother. Not mean or anything but just not the same as another parent. He can be hard on him so I know what you mean.
Flag football does bring out the worst in parents and coaches. There’s one guy who has a camera in the sky with a portable 25 foot? plus pole that a high school would use. Complete psycho.
Forgot to say they ran one (1) passing play and it was a) on an extra point and b) after a double handoff. Just silly. Let the kids throw and have fun.
The youth sports scam in my area seems to be ranking your own kid as a late round pick. Essentially you get to draft a bunch of other good players then get one of the best players at the end because no one else can draft your son. First couple years people were pissed but didn't say much. This year I think there was a big confrontation in the basketball league.
Parents in my little league tell their kids to tank their assessments for basically the same reason. Personally I can’t imagine telling my kid not to try his best at what he’s doing but getting on their preferred team means a lot to some of these hardo parents.
Believe our league takes into account previous evaluation rank and season performance when ranking to prevent kids tanking on purpose. My son missed his 3 pitches but still had a favorable rank.
Here Parent coaches first round pick is required to be used on their own kid, no matter if they are good or not. I can't believe anywhere would allow it to be done anything other way
That's seems to be a much better way. The League here was on the honor system for like 30 years until some douche ruined it to win an 8u championship.
that is so silly. all these coaches know how good all the kids are. evals are done just so you know who the worst players are. not the best.
Just a little update here to brag Team finished the regular season 7-4. the 5 seed in a 12 team league. won the first round game last night 16-5. We play the 4 seed tonight. it's a complete showdown. we played them game 1 and they beat us 16-10 but besides that. we have the same common wins/losses. it is a very evenly matched game. The coach's son on that team is a total stud and ball hog so planning to just swarm him and make someone else beat us. 1-3-1 is the GOAT 8U defense. just completely bottling kids up at halfcourt and getting easy steals. the boys have all learned it and love it. Pick and roll with middling success depending on the opponent is the main offense but we usually score off steals and rebounds. I was able to draft a team of 2 really solid players and 5 other boys who all listen fairly well and go to the right spot on defense. They all play really hard. my son is apart of that group of 5. he's had a blast and the team has really gelled. the parents got me a $100 gift card to the local sporting goods store! gotta be doing something right. i push the boys to be leaders and to carry themselves on the court like Jalen Hurts. that seems to work here in Alabama where he is a hero. It is challenging to balance the competitive urge to win with teaching the boys about sportsmanship and leadership. I think we have done a pretty good job of that. It's been a very rewarding season and I encourage everyone to head coach their kids sports teams. It has been an enriching experience for my son and I.
Our basketball league makes you draft your son in the 3rd round, unless he was an All-Star, and then he goes in the 1st or 2nd round depending on where he ranked the season before. Spoiler My kid was top 10 three years in a row
Son had a indoor batting cage practice yesterday due to the rain. It was towards the end of practice and the kids that were done hitting were all playing around like 7-8 year old boys do. So one kid took my sons Gatorade and was basically wanting him to chase him around. Well once my son caught him they were on the ground. Next thing the kid is screaming/crying and grabbing his hand. Of course this is the smallest kid on the team and I am sure my son just broke his hand..... His dad is one of the assistant coaches and quickly calms his son down but the kid did not let go of his hand the rest of the night. This is an established team and my son was brought on to fill the last open spot so I am feeling horrible that this kids season might be ruined and now the team has to find another player asap before games start. Spoke with the kids dad this morning and they took him to the doctor bc it was still hurting. Luckily its not broken. Sprain/Bone Bruise so he has to let it heal for about a week.
Yeah. The HC came over after and told them all to knock it off. Then told my son he was good and gave him a fist bump. I don't know these kids enough yet to know if this is typical of this kid.
Email I just received about flag football this season. Thankfully we don’t need either of them to coach. I removed the names and phone number Spoiler Good morning, My name is and my son and My girlfriends son are signed up to play and I am signed up to be a head coach. We registered them last month and are very excited for the season. I can’t wait to be able to help the two of them as well as the rest of the team we get and the teams we play have an amazing season! Im in need of some assistance unfortunately and I am interested in it not being much of a glaring deal as it’s mostly interpersonal and deals with family dynamics. My main needs are ensuring my son is on the team I coach and my live in girlfriends son is also with us. To make the long story short and not give it the attention it doesn’t deserve I’m being told by my children’s step father that he’s also interested in coaching and has taken steps to try to position my kids with a team he wants to coach. I wish we were in better standings and had the ability to coach together but as I’ve already expressed to them it would take away from the children’s awesome time so it’s honestly hard to foreshadow not potentially having issues volunteering together for the kids. Can I please have guidance on this issue. I want the best outcome for my kiddos and the other kids. My direct line is, I look forward to speaking to you.
i am also confused by this seemingly year around flag football season in Florida. we just do it in the fall.
It's just a bunch of mini 6 game seasons over by me (which I assume is the case for most of the state), which is kind of nice bc we're able to drop-in whenever it's convenient and still pursue other sports at the same time.