^can I get a burrito and a nap before the evening activities? Also, need to stop by the house and tell the kids to get the fuck off my lawn.
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^can I get a burrito and a nap before the evening activities? Also, need to stop by the house and tell the kids to get the fuck off my lawn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZrtaxMZDYwQuote:
Originally Posted by Timberridge
there ain't shit wrong with caring about doing a good job when you coach, it's sorta the essence of being a good coach vs a merely acceptable one. the great coaches I had as a kid, and have had as an adult, have kept me happy as a lifelong athlete. I'm sure there are others out there who feel likewise. it's like having a good teacher in school, one that kicks your interests into high gear. or a parent who helps you nurture something important to you.
none of that excuses the fact that my HS's football coach, a great football coach and nice guy, well he was a lousy algebra teacher.
woods and hay fieldsQuote:
Originally Posted by creaky fossil
I would have had the fire department there at least twice when I was a kid.Quote:
Originally Posted by DBdude
lol - i remember fucking around with molotov cocktails as a kid and having to call the fire deptQuote:
Originally Posted by 4matic
Are you sure your projection wasnt the actual cause? I'm not trying to pile on, but you may have poisoned a well and you don't seem to care with comments likeQuote:
Originally Posted by DBdude
when told that you don't get to decide what is important to who.Quote:
Originally Posted by DBdude
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Originally Posted by skiballs
Are you in Roc? That's pretty much what I do everyday in the summer
I like your styleQuote:
Originally Posted by Timberridge
In a similar, yet different note...Quote:
Originally Posted by creaky fossil
My HS physics teacher rode me all year about my lab grades...I was one of the smartest kids with highest test avg in class, but wouldn't finish most of my labs(homework).
He made me stay after school till 6 PM my last day of my senior year and let me make up all the incomplete labs to raise my grade up a bunch. At the time I thought he was an asshole for making me stay. Looking back, that's the most positive experience I had with a teacher
Booner, not sure how old you are, don't need to know, but if you've had substantial experience with hockey which it sounds like you do, I'm sure at some point you've had that coach that got caught up in the political bullshit. At whatever cost don't ever become that guy. I played on a travel team from second year squirts up through U18 in the same organization. I actually joined right when they started, brand new rink and all. Over the course of my time there the politics became so bad the organization started to crumble, especially the highest teams. It's spread up the junior teams at the rink and even my old high school coach, who was a brown nosing douche even when I was there.
Long story short, shit like that can get out of hand real quick.
Did you ever play any juniors?
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Originally Posted by east or bust
I've seen all that. Not too many politics in our organization.. I see more of a problem due to everyone on the board being completely spineless.
I think I told the story here once before, but...
I played a year of peewees on a team I never should have been on. I played for the local team...always played for a much more competitive team out of town other years. I led the team in scoring as a d-man. I think i had 60 points in 25 games...countless hat tricks...5 and 6 goal games. And I played solid D too...Funny thing was...and I'll always remember that year...I passed WAY more than I should have cause I felt guilty about scoring so much.
banquet rolls around...they announce defensive MVP....assistant coach's son. Some barely average player. I just laughed, and left the organization. That was the result of having one of those super nice/fun head coaches that obviously let the assistant tell him who the MVP was going to be. My friends and I still joke about it
I played 1 yr junior then joined the Navy
When I got out I started playing 5 days a week in leagues with a bunch of pros.
I ended up getting a tryout and made a team...played some fake pro for a few years
If you can get through the southern farm boy drawl, perhaps this video will help...Quote:
Originally Posted by booner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcGTawd1EHM
A bunch of kids that I coached in youth football are playing in a state championship game at Gillette Stadium right now. My son stopped playing after 6th grade. There's your football players, and your kids that play football. He was the latter.
Place is packed.
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No. But but that's not a good excuse. I am nominating you to organize the 1st annual maggot golf summit.Quote:
Originally Posted by booner
You think coaching a bunch a kids is thankless.
Our guys got killed. Ouch.
Our team went 4-0 in tourney over the weekend. There was a photographer there that gave away pics for free...awesome deal. There were 1200 on his site just from our division
Here's my son, Dr Hook McCracken
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Dr Dangles
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My crew
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A few of my wrestlers were featured in the New York Times recently. Zafar was on the front page. He placed sixth in the State last weekend.
this is classic. this weekend we were in stowe vermont for a lacrosse tournament. our kid is a 2018, a rising sophomore. Sunday morning they had a game against a team that was from the Duxbury, south shore area. the game was a nightmare with one kid on our team getting a 3 minute IBC locked penalty, and an Unsportsmanlike. 4 minutes locked. Their team was brutal as well, and took a 2 minute IBC locked. The kid that got hit was one of the coaches kids.
going through the line after the game (we won 7-6), one of their kids called one of our coaches a "fag". All i can say is I hope that kid didn't want to play at Umass because that coach was Greg Canella. LOL.
My HS Physics teacher should have done that. Instead he 'let' me take the C. I had the 2nd highest score on the final out of all of the sections that year. And the highest score was from my buddy who was only one point ahead of me. Of course he did his lab write-ups and projects and got the A.Quote:
Originally Posted by booner
3rd game into the 6th year that I've coached my son's team. I've never had a parent get too douchy, amazingly enough. Certainly had weirdness, but no drama.
Tonight after the game a parent came up to me and gave me a heads up that I might be having to deal with a douchebag. One of the dads was apparently bitching non-stop about his kid's ice time.
I'm by the book, completely equal ice time for all kids. His kid is one of the better players and is a good kid. The last kid that would get shorted for any reason. Fuck, I have a kid that isn't even alive and he plays the same as everyone else.
...little side note...The kid that's barely alive is called "the lump" by a group of parents. I've coached him every year, and I'm convinced he's vaping HARD before he gets on the ice.
When they were 5 my son got a breakaway. His 1st breakaway. He isn't very good and doesn't get a lot of chances. Who comes out of nowhere, like fucking Erik Karlsson, and steals the puck from him like he'd done it a hundred times before? The lump. The kid hasn't moved since, and never will...
Back on topic...Pretty sure the guy is just too stupid to figure out that his kid IS in fact missing shifts...JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER FUCKING KID CAUSE WE HAVE 2.5 LINES, SO THEY TAKE TURNS SITTING OUT!!!
It was an amazing game. We'd been outscored 14 -1 in the 1st two games. We tied 2-2, and had our goalie make a full-on Dominik Hasek paddle save on a breakaway, after the kid decked him out of the net. It was amazing...under 2 minutes left
The kids played so well, and executed just the way I've been struggling to get them to do it. I was in such a great mood, then hear that. Fucking idiots have to ruin everything
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Tell him to grab a whistle or Stfu
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Originally Posted by MMP
Not a chance he says a word to me.
If he does, I'll be telling him to put a stopwatch on his kid and any other kid he chooses.
I've always had him pegged as a DB from seeing him around the rink. He definitely has that narrow minded, hick DB vibe. He also drives an H2...red flag right away.
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Can he skate?
No.Quote:
Originally Posted by telemike
Who cares though...he's not stepping on the ice
Sent from the other side
Exactly. He has no idea. Remind him of that.
Those little monsters skate their faces off. They need a rest.
Poster-worthy!Quote:
Originally Posted by booner
I have fond memories of playing at that age. Keep up the good work!
My team started out the season getting outscored 14-1 in the first two games...Didn't stop the losing streak for a couple more games either, and that was a tie
Since then they have one loss...by one goal. We beat an undefeated team for our first win, dominated a decent team last weekend, and won 7-0 today.
They have below average talent so the success is all due to them finally catching on to what they're being told to do....except our sniper. He just does whatever he wants for the most part, and buries at least 2 a game on average.
I love this part of the year when they start to figure it out. I've never coached the top team with the skilled players because my son has always been average. These kids have the same pattern every year. We get smoked at the beginning of the year because it's just freewheeling skill vs skill, which we don't have. Our team always develops throughout the year and the teams that have skill stay the same.
My son has finally gotten really good all the sudden too , and it's awesome.
Douchebag dad's kid is finally on board and playing great. He's the fastest on the team and didn't contribute at all for first 5 games. Funny how the team and his son are doing great, so he's all the sudden really into it
my son did Tball which ended about a month ago and is finishing up his soccer class this Sunday
I have to say I am very impressed with all of the parents, including myself, with not interfering with the instructors
gives me hope
just give yourself a few more seasons........Quote:
Originally Posted by SKIORFORGETIT
First year for my son playing hockey on a team vs skills clinics (he's 5). Helping coach our team and we live in a part of the country, TX, where youth hockey is just really getting established to resemble the way it was up north when I grew up. They practice twice a week and have 1 game so three hours of ice time. It's awesome to see the progress most of the kids have made in 8 weeks.
Hasn't happened yet but will see the DBag parents coming out of the woodwork in the next few years...that seems to be the norm down here when it comes to parents and youth sports. Funny though, almost all the dad's coaching are either from Canada or northern hockey playing states.
I was looking for the helicopter parenting thread, but this one works...
Bullshit story from polo league I grew up playing in. I have been in plenty of scuffles in the water, but it stays in the water.
Now Pandora's box is open.....
http://news24-680.com/2015/12/16/all...form=hootsuite
Been coaching my daughter's soccer team since she was old enough to lace them up. Hands down, I will take meddling parents who want to help over divorced parents that use their kids as pawns in their assinine game of "who can handle the divorce worse"? I got no help whatsoever a year ago thanks to the majority of my team having divorced parents who couldn't figure out their own schedule of who "gets the kids" on which weekends. That sucked, so I referee this season instead so I could assure my daughter would be on a team with at least two parents that cared (me and the coach). Worked out pretty well until, sure enough, one of the girls (divorced) Dads decided to punish the Mom by bringing the girl to a playoff game but not letting her play. What an ass! That backfired for him - the team won anyway and he wasn't allowed to even be at the finals the next weekend.
I get it, divorce is rampant, but from a Dad who cares enough to volunteer every weekend and a lot of weeknights, I have to say this; if you and your wife decide to divorce, do everything, and I mean everything in your power to put on a happy face and put your kids first. It's not their fault, and it sure as hell isn't the job of your kids coach to clean up the mess you've made. It's bad enough that you've decided fighting with your ex is more important than participating in your kids very short childhood, it's far worse that you are making things difficult for the other parents and screwing up practices, games etc. with your petty squabble.
^ well said
I coach baseball. Two years ago I had a divorced dad and mom duking it out in the bleachers while their 10 yr old son was doing his best to play catcher. I thought he was going to cry when he came into the dugout. I did my best to console him, but it had to be a hard ride home for him.
I played water polo in college and coached college women. My college teammate is one of the best HS Water Polo coaches in California. I hate the game. It is lawless. Everything in the game is designed around the whistle and a violation (unlimited violations). Players are taught how to cheat by holding when the ref can't see it. It's dangerous and there are a lot of injuries like the one in that article. I have been kicked, have a bad tooth, elbowed, grabbed, dunked, held under water, and every other means of mayhem in the game. It's just a stupid game.Quote:
Originally Posted by nickwm21
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Can't speak to water polo.Quote:
Originally Posted by 4matic
But taking legal action off the field/ice/pool is not how you even the score in a contact sport. :nonono2: It just lets everyone know how much of a huge pussy you are.
Let's try and get this thread back on topic…
Not so much young kids sports, but my old high school took in a new athletic director a couple years ago and the guy is a complete fucking clown. Plays favorites like no other, IE some sports get buses to all of their games and other accommodations and hockey doesn't get shit because the team was always run through the town program (house league through HS), not specifically by the high school. Long story short, the pretty successful coach of about 7 years stepped down after last season and the new AD prick leaves the team with an ultimatum.. either become fully involved with HS (AD picks coach, be on HS's terms, etc) or no team. Obviously the hockey association agrees cause their hands are tied. AD picks one of his buddies who is a TERRIBLE coach. Sits best players whenever the team is outscoring the opponent instead of finishing them, keep in mind this is supposed to be competitive hockey (a team that made the state finals the last two years). He creates absolutely looney PP systems which have resulted in 4 short handed goals in the first 6 games. Just unbelievable.
hahahaaQuote:
Originally Posted by fatnslow
Some parents really suck.
that is sadQuote:
Originally Posted by Timberridge
I am 100000% certain my wife and I are headed for divorce but no way I would ruin my son's good time. My wife on the other hand is about as immature as her Aunt, which is pathetic
I'm not sure I understand the disconnect? If hockey does not have a school budget how are they supposed to pay for the buses? Out of the the general fund? If it is not a school funded sport there is no budget for buses.Quote:
Originally Posted by east or bust
Sorry, I wrote that in a misleading way. I meant after they merged with the school, no buses, presumably from his grudge carrying over. The hockey association provided buses before the split, now they have no reason to.Quote:
Originally Posted by 4matic