PitchingFan posted:I have been the coach in one of those bad meetings. A parent heard someone say something to her son and thought it was me. She came in furious the next morning to a meeting with me and the AD dragging her son along. I had gotten a heads up from a mutual friend that she was wanting to meet with me and what it was about. She started the meeting with calling me every name under the sun and saying how bad of a coach I was and how bad the AD and the sports program in general was while her son sat there with his head down the whole time muttering please be quiet. When she finally got to the incident, I whipped out my phone and pulled up the facebook live that a lady had done of the game. and had it to the exact spot in the game. I played it for her and she realized I was talking to the referee at the time and it was the lady videoing the game's husband that shouted at their son and not her son. She had just misunderstood. I will admit that he did not get as much playing time the rest of the season and had been a starter. I felt sorry for the kid but sometimes our kids get the blunt of our mistakes. The kid got cut the next year because the high school coaches did not want to deal with the mom.
Just a real life incident where the meeting did not go as planned. Might want to think about it before you open that can. I know coaches who would take losses rather than reward a kid they don't like or a kid of a parent they don't like. I still hold there is something in the past you don't know about between your son and the coach.
“Our kid gets the blunt of our mistakes “coaches taking losses rather than reward a kid” so powerful.
This humbled me so much. I am glad I am in this site so early! Learning so much from everyone experience!
“she has broken him” ok in my time zone it’s 9:30 late Arrival today I am sipping on coffee and freaking crying. Stop it. I am crying 😭!