At this weekend's Stanford All Star Camp, I overheard a dad complaining to an Ivy League coach who was not able to make it to his son's game to watch him. Keep in mind that there are games at 3 different fields and all coaches are either assigned to a team, running the clinics, or evaluating games at a particular field.
I was amazed that this dad went on and on for half an hour about how his kid had been emailing and texting the coach to try to get him to his game. The coach was quite patient and listened for way longer than I could have. Why this dad thought that grinding on this coach would help his son's cause is beyond me. This is exactly the kind of parent that coaches go to great lengths to avoid.
All this did for me is reinforce that parents need to take a step (or two) back from the process and let their young men mature by handling their business. As Coach Stotz said, these boys have never even had to get off the coach to change the TV channel. So we need to let them grow up.
