AHole Parents of Kids Sports: Awful Parents Reliving Their Youth

New show Win or Lose on Disney is great but it's HEAVY. More for adults than kids imo, at least young kids.

 

yes heard it all day Saturday it's going to be a big walk up song. one kid just had the in TV Off where he just screams "MUSTARRRRRRRDDDDDDD" for the ten seconds of his walk off. amazing.

but yeah always a bummer when it's clear the kids aren't picking. had one guy pick a Bush song for his kid smh.

for the record, my son is in his third year straight of a different Imagine Dragon song and my daughter picked a Wicked song.

 

Thankful my kids league banned walk up songs. My guess is they struggled moderating them and then also the volume from field to field would drive me nuts

 

My HS kids try to be funny with their walk up songs.. they are not funny.

Didn't realize walk up songs were a thing for little kids until recently. The boomboxes are wild.

 

I think it's just something to make it more fun for the kids

 

GNX is in heavy rotation at my Little League

 

Another kid on my sons team ahs that exact part for his walk up. Not sure if the mom suggested it or if he copied it from older cousins or something.

My kid (8) picked FE!N on his own but he watches too much youtube and probably saw it there.

11 year old has the sweet escape by Gwen Stafani as his walk up. Not sure where he came up with that.

 

Accepting him would be DEI

 

A bunch of my son’s friends have left our (pretty good) rec baseball league to play 8u travel ball.

This shit is absurd.

I looked at the local travel ball fb pages and I’m embarrassed for all parties involved. Posts about what recovery workouts to do at home after practice. Posts about eating right so you don’t let your team down. Even a post that looked like it was off of a Rivals page that ranked kids 8-9 years old. What in the flying fuck are we doing here???

sorry, not sorry if that take ruffles any feathers.

 

Go swimming in the pool or playing with their friends sounds right.

Post game pizza or ice-cream imo.

I would assume a ranking of whose kids' are the most obnoxious?

 

same thing happened in my son’s rec league. One of the dads that pulled his son is still head of the board which I and others find strange.

 

same thing here.

they ‘stay involved’ with Rec so they can use it as their feeder system and get early eyes on kids

 

Lost a handful of really nice kids that it’s sad not seeing them around as much. Lost about 2 good coaches also.

Lost about 2-3 Daddy Ball coaches that I don’t miss at all and seen some kids that once they got away from them make huge improvements with better coaches.

 

Or accept him and put him on the worst team. This is for soccer?

 

I think this thread is for exactly these types of posts so no feathers ruffled.

Related to groups like this I gotta think the latest grift in this area are photoshoots that involve fire and smoke that probably charge thousands of dollars

 

Maybe see if you can use it to negotiate for healthcare I dunno

 

Yeah, stick him on the worst team and stack their schedule bc fuck your grandpa.

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I'm not kidding, I would do this in your scenario

 

I can't tell if you're posting this as a positive or a negative. Because brother, this screams of opportunity to me.

 

Pair em with these guys

 

Exactly. Jigga I'm disappointed in your lack of vindictive imagination.

 

just signed up for K-1 flag football. kind of surprised they have a draft and it's fully competitive at this age.

I need to figure out what kind of plays these kids can run and the easiest way to set them up on defense. not trying to do anything too complicated, just don't want the kids getting blown out because I'm a bad coach.

 

Both seasons (2 different coaches) we went undefeated running the ball 99% of the time, handoff run outside. Winning is fun but I wish they got more creative especially games we were up. The team we played in the championship this year was running double reverses, fake reverses, hadn't seen that at this age and it worked incredibly...except kids at this age drop the ball a lot. So while they'd reel off big plays, they'd frequently take 5-10 yard sacks dropping the ball on one of the numerous handoffs. Get the ball to your good players early, try to get up, and let other kids get touches. Except for one random mid season game they didn't enforce the rule of after 2 runs in a row it had to be pass so if your league enforces that then you'll need some passing plays..good luck on those.

Main thing on defense is trying to keep the kids disciplined on the outside. Kids love to crash the middle/chase the ball so our speedsters would just take the sweeps outside and off to the races. During that championship game our boys did a great job of just staying put on the outside and waiting for their numerous handoffs to eventually come right to them.

 

Easiest thing I've found/seen from other coaches is to basically do a wing t concept with the 3 kids who aren't the center and qb. Just have it so the wings and rb go in the same order every play, just a different kid gets the ball, that way you can teach every spot to each kid and all the have to do is 1 thing per spot.

 

in our league they make you pass between the 40s and that's when most offenses will stall out. same with 2 point conversions.

 

I don't see anything

Haven't used that app in years.

 

I’m struggling to teach my kid proper striking. Before we got serious he tended to kick with his toe so now hes struggling to grasp kicking with his laces. I found the video below and definitely will be practicing with the ball on the cone. I also feel like he’s leaning back instead of coming through the ball causing him to pop them up and not have much power behind it. I’m good enough to play with him/show him but am clueless on the technical stuff and coaching it. Anyone got any tips?

 

I was at a tournament recently and waiting in a massive concession stand line. A 12ish year old kid was behind me and his parents and they were taking turns standing in line with him.

At this point it’s just him and his mom and she goes “Did you yell “fuck!” really loud during the game?”. Kid hems and haws a bit and fesses up to it. Mom tells him that she’s really disappointed in him and he shouldn’t use that language.

Dad tags in and mom leaves. Dad goes “Did I hear you yell “fuck!” out there?”. Kid admits it and dad replies “Good, I like that kind of fire!”.

 

First Tournament Experience this past weekend. Only witnessed one game get out of hand. Team 1 made a good play to end the inning and the coaching staff is celebrating the job well done with the kids as they run off the field. Apparently it was too much for one of the coaches on Team 2 who comes running out of the dugout screaming and yelling ready to fight. It was absurd. Then Team 1 Wins it on a walkoff single with the winning run on 3rd. As the winning run is coming home the Catcher (Team 2 Coaches Son) lowers his shoulder and gives a cheap shot to the kid coming in to score. The Ump tossed the kid but it didn't really matter since the game was over. Like Father Like Son....

 

I was staring really hard at the phone to see if someone was posting to t m b dot com

 

I like to think he’s somehow attached to the lesbian couple underneath the rainbow umbrella to demonstrate that while this Florida Man has made his share of mistakes, he is, in fact, progressive.

 

I feel like intentionally trying to land on your kicking foot is how you learn to drive through the ball. But it has been a while.

 

Got a steroid shot in my shoulder a few weeks back and have been to PT 2-3 times a week. Hit my buddy’s cage today and caught one at 104.3 EV and 420’. That’ll be the record for years on that thing.

 

Wow

 

I know. It was a bomb. I caught it perfect perfect.

 

Plant foot even with ball pointing at your target and wide enough that it allows your hips to rotate.

Strike the ball at or just below ‘the equator’. Toes down with your ankle locked so that you strike it with the inside of the laces/the bone that continues down to your big toe (assuming you’re going for power…you can open your leg and kick with the inside of your foot (like when you pass) for accuracy).

Your weight should be over your plant foot (not leaning back or to the side) while your kicking leg comes through like a clock hand. Then you will naturally bring your weight over to land on the kicking leg in the follow through.

My son was a toe kicker that didn’t get his hips through at U9. After he got demoted a level I hired a personal coach for a 1 hour session because while I could do it myself I couldn’t teach it. Best $70 I spent on soccer. In 20 minutes of good teaching, my son went from the weakest leg on his team to about median. I regret not doing it earlier.

 

Went to Arizona for Spring Training and baseball. I had to separate two dads during the last game. I think a long weekend of their kids sucking and them drinking came to a head. The younger dad (38) is on TRT and would have torn apart the older dad. The comments don’t even matter, just an argument over if the catcher or SS messed up.

I think we are looking for another program for 12U this coming summer. Too much drama.

 

Do colleges do overnight baseball camps anymore? Growing up, those were huge experiences for me and helped me a ton.

Was talking to a buddy of mine and he made it sound like they’re all day camps now.

 

I got invited to a town baseball meeting last night that I thought was just a usual preseason coaches meeting, but I quickly realized it was a board meeting and I was invited because they thought I was dumb enough to take over next year for one of the guys whose kid is aging out.

they're right, I am dumb so I might have some good stories for this thread in the near future, unfortunately.

 

My son plays on a team with our league president’s kid. He gets 100s of texts/emails from parents every single day all expecting a prompt response.

Good luck.

 

Most around me are just Day Camps. At least for younger kids.

Auburn does a Father/Son overnight 2 day camp that I really want to do sometime.

 

Many years ago I was convinced to take a VP position by our football league's president (my son's coach's wife) saying that all I'd have to do is help her ease her load a little. About 3 months into it I got a phone call that the neighboring league's president had been arrested for skimming money to feed his cocaine habit and she was taking the job as a favor to them, and I was now president of our league. I was able to make it 3 years before saying "fuck all of this"

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I really did love doing it. Just hated the parents with a passion.

 

I don't think El Tiburon appreciates getting doxxed