- Dec 5, 2017
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I am an assistant on my dd's 8u travel team. I was actually supposed to take over as HC this fall but my dd and I decided to go to another organization. The other deal fell through, not enough girls to fill a roster, and we returned along with 2 great girls from the other org. The guy that took over is a great guy but is the definition of a daddy ball coach. Most practices consist of girls standing around while others take bp. His daughter always hits first, last and somewhere in the middle as well as hitting for much longer than other girls. His dd doesn't belong on the team but is by default basically. His dd along with about half of the team don't have a lot of basic,fundamental skills down yet. I'm trying to figure out while we are on winter break how to approach him about our practice's without stepping on his toes or accusing him of not knowing what he's doing. As the guy that left and came back I am reluctant to try and tell him what he's doing wrong but he wanted us back and we brought better players with us. These girls dad's have approached me about the daddy ball stuff and will leave in a heartbeat if it doesn't change. We invest too much time and our girls work too hard on their own time to waste valuable field time like this. Any thoughts? Ideas? Leaving again is always an option but not a great one at this time. It definitely is not benefiting some of these girl to continue in this direction, it's probably detrimental or at least holding them back.