Coaching young kids sports teams

[skiballs]

^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.

[creaky fossil]

Booner, I think you're a good coach too.

Golf is for old men and weed just makes you lazy. Let's go bang some of the hot hockey moms then drive around town...throwing empty beer cans out the car window and shitting on the porches of the parents we don't like. A coaches night out, if you will.

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.

[DBdude]

right, but the kids can't play between last bell and your 6:30 arrival? what do you mean, "no neighborhood"? your house/apartment/condo/etc has no land surrounding it? no place a kid could kick a ball, ride a bike, ride a skateboard, use a pogo stick, drift a BigWheel? are you bats living in caves? moles living in an underground tunnel network?

even bat and mole youth get to play!



frogger used to be a good indirect lesson on that one, but today a kid might get a frogger app on her phone and stop mid-crossing to make sure the frog makes it

woods and hay fields

[4matic]

woods and hay fields

I would have had the fire department there at least twice when I was a kid.

[DBdude]

I would have had the fire department there at least twice when I was a kid.

lol - i remember fucking around with molotov cocktails as a kid and having to call the fire dept

[Art Shirk]

nobody does. It's the poor experiences they have had

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 like

I do for my kid

when told that you don't get to decide what is important to who.

[booner]

Well you retards shit the sandbox nicely.

Booner you're a good coach. Don't sweet the little shit. There will be those moments, that will make it all worth it.
Let's play some golf someday, get drunk, stoned and swap stories.

Are you in Roc? That's pretty much what I do everyday in the summer

Booner, I think you're a good coach too.

Golf is for old men and weed just makes you lazy. Let's go bang some of the hot hockey moms then drive around town...throwing empty beer cans out the car window and shitting on the porches of the parents we don't like. A coaches night out, if you will.

I like your style

[booner]

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.

In a similar, yet different note...

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

[east or bust]

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?

[booner]

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?

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

[Timberridge]

banquet rolls around...they announce defensive MVP....assistant coach's son. Some barely average player. I just laughed, and left the organization.

If you can get through the southern farm boy drawl, perhaps this video will help...

[MMP]

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.

[skiballs]

Are you in Roc? That's pretty much what I do everyday in the summer

No. But but that's not a good excuse. I am nominating you to organize the 1st annual maggot golf summit.
You think coaching a bunch a kids is thankless.

[MMP]

Our guys got killed. Ouch.

[booner]

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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My crew

[I've seen black diamonds!]

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.

[MMP]

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.

[riser4]

In a similar, yet different note...

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

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.

[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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[MMP]

Tell him to grab a whistle or Stfu

[booner]

Tell him to grab a whistle or Stfu

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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[~mikey b]

Can he skate?

[booner]

Can he skate?

No.

Who cares though...he's not stepping on the ice


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[~mikey b]

Exactly. He has no idea. Remind him of that.

[~mikey b]

Those little monsters skate their faces off. They need a rest.