Are the women as bad as the men?Quote:
Originally Posted by 4matic
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Are the women as bad as the men?Quote:
Originally Posted by 4matic
Is the hockey program an official high school varsity sport or club sport in your state ?Quote:
Originally Posted by east or bust
Believe its an official varsity sport in NJ.Quote:
Originally Posted by fatnslow
Sorry to hear that, but I'm sure I speak for the coach, other parents, even your kid when I say that no one outside of you and your soon to be ex gives a shit about your marital problems, and really, that's the way it should be. Get your kid to practice and games on time and volunteer wherever you can. Help with batting practice, work more than your fair share in the snack bar, sell more than your fair share of candy bars, whatever it takes. Your son will have a hard enough time dealing with this without you and your wife using it as an excuse to shirk your responsibilities to his team.Quote:
Originally Posted by SKIORFORGETIT
Worse in some ways because the violence is open and in anger. Not to mention the jealousy.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
I doubt that is the case. It just doesn't work like that unless it's some small town deal. A couple things: I have been hired because previous coaches were not aspiring to the values of the school in terms of how the team was being run and the values being taught. Not in any way because I was the best candidate with the most experience. Winning, and especially winning big, is not always the goal. You don't know what kind of pressure the AD or Principal could be under because someone with power is complaining about the way the team is coached. "Settling it on the field" would be a huge red flag for any administration and if you are under the impression that is a correct administration of HS sports conduct I'd have a problem with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by east or bust
I would guess the parents and supporters of the team could set up a fund for travel. Why not? I had a kid that wanted to be a quarterback. He sucked. Terrible. Nice kid though. His parents dropped a few thousand to support the football team with no strings attached and the AD said, "that kid plays," and he did. It's not always about talent and winning.
It seems like you took my comments about water polo and the HS situation to go hand and hand, which was not the intended case. First I’d like to clear up my perceived meaning of “settling it on the field”, because you seem to think that implies playing dirty. “Leaving/settling it on the field” is what most kids in sports are taught from an early age. It absolutely doesn’t mean you’re going to out to hurt anyone. If you feel like you were slandered or treated unfairly in a previous game, you go into the next game wanting kick the other team’s ass, and to do it cleanly. You have to expect that at some point in sports you’re going to come across a dirty player or team, to deal with them you don’t stoop to their level, you play to win. I’ve never been taught that taking legal action in sports is the right path, except maybe for very extreme circumstances.Quote:
Originally Posted by 4matic
Back to the HS situation, previous coach was not ousted, he got a better gig coaching juniors so he took the opportunity. AD douche hires his buddy over a much more qualified bid from the leading point scorer in the team’s history who is back teaching at the school. I get that this is a difficult situation for someone reading what I’m writing, and I appreciate you’re opinion on the matter because you provided a valid POV, just had to vent.
Just putting this out there, but I’m pretty sure most high schools have a JV and varsity team. Naturally the best players get time on the varsity squad. If other parents caught wind of an under skilled kid playing because mommy and daddy gave the program money, let’s just say that would not sit well with anyone if it compromised the team's ability to do well.
Just keep reciting the mantra "everything below U12 is irrelevant. Everything below U12 is irrelevant." It will make watching kids sports much more enjoyable.
FYI, school coaching jobs in CA must first be offered to currently employed certificated employees who meet the posted qualifications: http://law.justia.com/cases/californ...th/14/627.html
The schools can set the qualifications to whatever they want, but that's the rule. Sometimes the volunteer will be more qualified, but if the certificated employee meets the basics to qualify then they have a right to the job.
A+^^^^^^^
Heh, and really, even over 12 it's irrelevant. Winning isn't shit if kids aren't developed. If they can only play in a "system" or in a certain style, they will not make it to the next level, and even if they do, they will not be successful. Develop players and you'll have success. Many coaches don't understand that...Quote:
Originally Posted by Stu Gotz
I forgot about this great thread.
I went to my buddy's kid's hockey game in Wenatchee a couple weeks ago and hockey parents must be the worst. The guy (a father) behind me was a drunk at noon and all he could do was loudly yell at his shitty son's team: "Why don't you hit somebody!?!?!?"
I know it's obvious, but what they really needed were stickhandling skills etc. the exact opposite advice he was yelling.
We get our fair share of drunk race dads too. Always awesome when a couple brahs are hammered on the slopes by noon cheering on the kids. Even better when their little bumpkins get beaten and they throw a fit at the timers and race officials.
I'm not a coach but I help out our team a lot. I spend a lot of time herding other people's children and chasing them around at away races making sure they are ready, eat, go pee, get your bib, where are your race skis, find mommy and daddy, get to the course, etc. Zero appreciation from net parents for the guy rolling solo with a dozen Under 10s so coaches can work with older kids.
people suck huh?Quote:
Originally Posted by ~mikey b
Couple weeks into my 7th year coaching my son's hockey team. Gotta say, I'm enjoying it more than ever.
We moved to a bigger organization with 8 teams and 4 levels within my son's age group. The talent level is divided really well due to all the available teams at different levels. I'm used to having stud kids on the same team that terrible kids are on....much easier when they're all the same ability.
My 4 yr old daughter just started playing too. I'm enjoying coaching those kids more than anything.
Taking a 5 yr old kid that's never stepped on the ice from his terrified parents, and having them standing up by the end of the practice is really as good as it gets.
I'll save the conversation about the moms for the padded room. For now I'll just say it's beyond ridiculous...grade AAA
My fifth year coaching youth soccer and I'm hating it this year!
I really don't care if the kid is any good, if they listen I'll be able to teach them something and if they just try then they'll have fun.
But for f#cks sake if the kid is only on the field for 4 x 5 mins in a game could they at least face the damn ball and pretend to care about whats going on!!
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Originally Posted by dcpnz
So no hot moms, huh
Apple's don't fall far from the tree.Quote:
Originally Posted by booner
The dumber the kid the less attractive I find the mom's.
Bet your kid sucks at using apostrophes...Quote:
Originally Posted by dcpnz
Wow dude!Quote:
Originally Posted by stfu&gbtw
Who appointed you the tgr grammar tough guy.
Why don't you just abide by the beginning of your handle and stfu?
Lol... Touchy! Don't you mean stf'u?Quote:
Originally Posted by dcpnz
in this thread?Quote:
Originally Posted by stfu&gbtw
Not really.Quote:
Originally Posted by stfu&gbtw
But must remember not to try arguing with asshole's on the internet's
Now that's post of the day worthy!Quote:
Originally Posted by stfu&gbtw
bump because I don't know where else to put this
http://highschoolsports.nj.com/news/...t-play-enough/
glad I got out of hs when I did!
Without reading the article. I've been there.. didn't get fired but felt the heat.Quote:
Originally Posted by east or bust
You couldn't pay me enough to coach a competitive high school team.
First season of oldest playing travel sports (hockey), I help coach and my wife tells me parents in our team brought a cooler of beer to the stands and we're hammering beers during the game. Now I like a few beers but it's 7-9 yr old hockey and at 12:30pm on a Sat...anyone else seen this? Can't we wait till, say, 4:00 to have a beer? No wonder asshole parents get in fights in the stands
Dude, some parents of my then 8 y/o daughters teammates snuck crown royal intoQuote:
Originally Posted by dtown
The end of season soccer party at Chuck E Cheese.... Seriously WTF.
Watch for the rigged inbetween card games. I remember having $200-$300 dollar pots in squirts and pee-wees 30 years ago. Rigged double and triple burns. Some guys were using their equipment as collateral. Oh the memories.
Sophomore quits the team early season due to lack of playing time? Kid didn't deserve to be on the team. Hope he watched the Predators tonight--some guys who haven't had a lot of ice time in the NHL stepping up when they got the chance.Quote:
Originally Posted by east or bust
So that is how this got started.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcjz41znkVIQuote:
Originally Posted by seano732
Lulz....Quote:
Originally Posted by St. Jerry
little update on this, coach is officially fired..Quote:
Originally Posted by east or bust
there have been two board of ed. meetings with hundreds of parents and former players coming out of the woodworks. shit is crazy. apparently once the coach learned he was officially fired he let a couple emails slip to the press that were between him and the high school AD, who was telling him if he didn't play the BOE president's son more, bad shit was going to happen. priceless!
We have a STRONG squad of moms on my son's hockey team for next season.
Always makes going to the rink a little easier
Yeah, pretty wild: http://www.nj.com/hssn-mms/2017/05/m..._texts_e-.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by east or bust
A big part of the problem is that AD's don't go to bat for their coaches. If there are health/safety issues or conduct unbecoming, an AD should fire the coach. If not, an AD should support his employees and be the one taking the heat. I live next to a school district where the AD will not support his coaches in any manner with regards to parental involvement and the sports teams are bedlam.
So in our nape of the woods our sons are pretty heavy into tournament level tennis. a while back MT jr gets a doubles partner in a big regional tournament "jones." Jones is a stud muffin based on his win/loss record and looking back hellva nice kid, MT jr fired up to have him as a partrner.Quote:
Originally Posted by dtown
The jones' have four kids registered in the tourney, which is one hell of a thing to manage (matches are spread over several days over a 20 mile radius, different times, etc.). So both Jones parents show up about midway thorugh the first round doubles match throwin down screwdrivers. Only time I noted parents drinking, looking back over maybe 200+ tournaments. They offered but it's like a 75 mile drive back after the match so I declined.
Girl who 'looks like boy' reason for soccer DQ http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/art...team-looks-boy
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Nebraska soccer tournament bans 8-year-old girl's team because she 'looks like a boy'
5:55 PM PT
ESPN.com news services
The family of an 8-year-old soccer player said her team was disqualified from a tournament in Nebraska because organizers thought she was a boy.
Mili Hernandez, who is one of the best players of the Omaha Azzuri Cachorros's 11-year-old squad, was about to play in the finals of the Springfield Soccer Club tournament on Sunday when she was told that her team had been disqualified because she looks like a boy.
Hernandez's parents claimed they showed organizers her insurance card to prove their daughter, who wears short hair, is a girl.
"Just because I look like a boy doesn't mean I am a boy," Mili told local TV station WOWT 6. "They don't have a reason to kick the whole club out."
Mili's father Gerardo Hernandez said his daughter "was in shock. She was crying after they told us... They made her cry."
After hearing Mili's story, U.S. soccer legends Mia Hamm and Amy Wambach showed their support on Twitter. Hamm invited Mili to her soccer academy and Wambach sent her a message.
According to WOWT, organizers told Mili's family they can file an appeal to the Nebraska State Soccer Association to challenge the disqualification.