I will look forward to it.
Thanks CaDad
Parents don't belong in the dugout. No reason for them to be there. A coach typically knows best...accidents can happen, but few coaches are so moronic as to put their players at risk. Give the majority of coaches credit - most of us are parents, too!
The statement that he came into the dugout to bond tells you all you need to know. Anyone that sees no problem with a parent coming into the dugout to bond during the game lets you know that its just rec ball mentality. I understand that there are people on this board that speak one language and others who are stuck in the rec leagues and just cant get out.
Coach May
Unfortunately the "rec ball mentality" continues until somebody changes it. Parents belong in the stands "away" from the dugout or bench. when I first started coaching no problem but as time went on I told the players to tell their parents that the dugout or bench area was off limits. I once had to tell a parent to move to which I received a lot of grief. Coaching today is hard enough you do not need distractions and parents are a distraction during the game.
Unfortunately the "rec ball mentality" continues until somebody changes it. Parents belong in the stands "away" from the dugout or bench. when I first started coaching no problem but as time went on I told the players to tell their parents that the dugout or bench area was off limits. I once had to tell a parent to move to which I received a lot of grief. Coaching today is hard enough you do not need distractions and parents are a distraction during the game.
Coach May
It was the coach who needed to bond with his team. No parent was invovled in the bonding. No parent entered the dugout until the bonding took so long that the dugout roof was blown off and tornados were touching down in the metropolitan area.
Then, a parent entered what used to be the dugout.
This parent and about 3 other parents were standing in the rain, waiting, and couldn't believe that the coach hadn't released his players due to the weather.
The sound of the dugout blowing up was considerably less than the sound of the parent chewing the coaches a$$ for his stupidity under the conditions. I might say a well deserved a$$ chewing.
It was the coach who needed to bond with his team. No parent was invovled in the bonding. No parent entered the dugout until the bonding took so long that the dugout roof was blown off and tornados were touching down in the metropolitan area.
Then, a parent entered what used to be the dugout.
This parent and about 3 other parents were standing in the rain, waiting, and couldn't believe that the coach hadn't released his players due to the weather.
The sound of the dugout blowing up was considerably less than the sound of the parent chewing the coaches a$$ for his stupidity under the conditions. I might say a well deserved a$$ chewing.
I may get blasted for this.
Sadly, coach bashing lives. I wish it wasn't that way. The reality of it is that each player has at least two parents, some 3 and 4. Thats 30 or 40 parents or more for each team.
If I'm coaching, I'm outnumbered from the first practice. I would find ways to use those numbers to my advantage and not deny their very existence.
JMO
Sadly, coach bashing lives. I wish it wasn't that way. The reality of it is that each player has at least two parents, some 3 and 4. Thats 30 or 40 parents or more for each team.
If I'm coaching, I'm outnumbered from the first practice. I would find ways to use those numbers to my advantage and not deny their very existence.
JMO
For some coaches, any form of parental communication is interference. "Back in the day" they never spoke to a coach. Today they do. Times have changed. For good or bad? Who cares? It is the way it is.