All Star Coach gives 9 pm curfew

In my opinion, he's an idiot!

I hope the coach was responsible enough to talk to the boys about "protection" and transmittable diseases. There's nothing worse than seeing a 9 yr old at the club on a game night.

In my opinion, this sounds like some E-6 fiction.

Not even an All Star coach can keep a nine year old away form his girlfriend after 9 p.m. on a Friday night..........

sorry really happen,

E-6

Perhaps it happened in your mind

A 9U team with a curfew regarding girlfriends---get real

I am with RZ1--E-6 Fiction

When my son was a 10U all-star, the coach gave similar instructions - including the girlfriend part. Parents all knew it meant he wanted a well-rested team the next day; players felt like the upcoming tournament was a really big deal. IMO - no harm, no foul.

TR, truth can be stranger than fiction. I actually gave that very speech to a 9u Little League all star team some years ago.

The girlfriend part is meant as a joke, by the way. Somewhere in the midst of all the folks with chips on their shoulders on this web site, we could stand to lighten up a little sometimes.

Even with very young kids, I was amazed to find how many were allowed by their parents to stay up as late as they darned well pleased. My point as a coach -- then and always -- was to emphasize to each player that he owed an obligation to his teammates to be at his best on game day. Just as each player owes the team an obligation to show up for practice on time, to root for his teammates, to play hard, etc.

Too many kids these days rule the roost at home, and expect the same treatment everywhere they go. They have no clue about the team concept. They think the all star team exists so that they can individually have their personal moments in the spotlight -- and worse, their parents think that, too. (If I'd've listened to all the parents on those teams in those days, I'd've had 7 pitchers per game, everyone else would've been playing SS, and everyone would've batted either 3rd or 4th. All 14 players would've started every game and none would ever have been substituted for under any circumstances.)

For ANY team at ANY age to be successful, the players have to embrace the team concept, and put the team ahead of their selfish indulgences.

And if the players are very young, as with a 9u team, the coach is not really talking to the players so much as he is talking to the players' parents, who are typically standing right behind the boys when the speech is given. Some take offense at the seeming intrusion into their sphere of influence, but others get the message and actually help you out.

A little levity in the speech can help a bit -- the proverbial spoonful of sugar to help them take their medicine.

I was an assistant coach of a 9-10 yr old PONY All-Star team once and our head coach gave a variation that same speech. As Midlo Dad stated, the speech was addressed more to the parents of the players than the players themselves and was made to emphasis the importance of rest in athletic performance and that everyone owed it to their teammates to be prepared to perform their best.

Personally, I thought the part about the girl friends was fairly humorous as did the parents and of course - the boys all gave various degrees of responses and facial expresions.

I too, coached an All-Star team starting when the kids were 8 years old. Before I had my first meeting with the team, the coach of the 9 year old team had already handed out a list of rules for his players and one of them was "No swimming on the day of a game." My parents were all very anxious to hear what I had to say about swimming and other rules like it.

I surprised them all when I told them that they could do whatever they like when they were away from the field and were no longer my responsibility. I told them that what they do away from the field is none of my business and that any coach who told them how to live their lives away from the field was overstepping his authority.

I did warn them that if they swam all day and then didn't produce come game day they could lose their position to someone who was playing better. Not because they were swimming, but because I had more productive options.

Some parents had enrolled their kids in baseball camps. These camps would go the whole week. I told the kids(and parents) that if they showed up with tired arms and couldn't pitch and I pitched another kid who had a fresh arm, they had no one to blame but themselves and shouldn't complain.

We had a very successful team and I can tell you that the kids went swimming, stayed up late and did baseball camps at times. One problem I never had to deal with was players or parents of players ratting out a player they saw breaking a rule so their kid could play.

I mean, unless you are prepared to bench your best starting pitcher in a big game if he breaks a rule, why have it.

You should never even think about not enforcing a rule just because of a kid's talent. That would breed disaster.

By all means, only set rules you intend to enforce against everyone equally. But who said we wouldn't enforce the bed time rule?

Besides, that rule was set for a reason. A 9-year-old cannot be at his best without a good night's sleep. If he didn't sleep, you may as well bench him, because he'll be no good to you in the lineup anyway.

good story about a 9 year old with girlfriends.

A number of coaches were curious just where does a 9 year old take his date. One player
( age 9) who claimed to have many girlfriends. Would take his dates to COSCO and dinner would be those little free samples of food they hand out in the store.

E-6

What meds do you take to get your mind so warped you think this so screwed up ?

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OK, now you're just yankin' us!

Considering that boys don't start puberty or have sexual feelings for girls until age 11, and since there is no resource or link to the actual story, my conlusion? Fake story.