Our local LL program is struggling to find a few coaches. I'm sure they'll come up with someone, but once again I'm asking myself why player dads aren't more involved with softball?
If it was their son playing baseball we would see lots of them out there, getting involved and working with their kid at home, etc, but I (a dad) hardly see my players' dads watching practices, offering to help with concessions, scoreboard operating, and the like.
And finding any parent to coach LL is difficult, but the dads even more so. Is it a masculinity thing? So many of these guys know enough about baseball to coach their kid's 8U age team. I did it, and I am FAR from a great coach. I just wanted to see my girls get to play, and no one was stepping up.
If it was their son playing baseball we would see lots of them out there, getting involved and working with their kid at home, etc, but I (a dad) hardly see my players' dads watching practices, offering to help with concessions, scoreboard operating, and the like.
And finding any parent to coach LL is difficult, but the dads even more so. Is it a masculinity thing? So many of these guys know enough about baseball to coach their kid's 8U age team. I did it, and I am FAR from a great coach. I just wanted to see my girls get to play, and no one was stepping up.