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    When do you leave a team?

    The longer you wait, the more potential learning loss your daughter is experiencing. If you were being judged on performance that is one thing, but if its no matter how you do, you still don't get, my best advice is leave. I would start by guesting for other organizations and see how that goes...
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    Coach Signaling We Should Resign?

    There are many bad coaches out there that have no idea what they are doing or they are playing a lot of daddy ball and coaching his DD and her friends, while anyone else who poses a threat to that gets the short end of the stick. I would have your daughter talk to the coach and see what the...
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    Dealing with bad coach and owner

    Thanks for all the replies...... I will likely walk away. The organization on a whole....sucks...... no answers for any of what goes on. The word will get out over time and they will eventually go away or someone else will fill their shoes...... yelling at a 12 year old kid by a coach is...
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    Dealing with bad coach and owner

    She plays 2/3 - 3/4 of the time.... bats well. Playing time is not the issue. Head coach is good, but he cant be there all the time. He also, in his defense, has the odds stacked against him with a 15 girl roster...... I appreciate his position as I have coached before..... but I see alot of...
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    Dealing with bad coach and owner

    not that I feel committed.... I feel like I say something, then they'll take it out on my kid and that makes it worse...... I wish I could get my money back and walk away..... I know that wont happen...... looking forward to next season but I think its hard to move teams mid year......
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    Dealing with bad coach and owner

    Got upset with the kids and lost his s&%t............ its 12U and I dont believe excusable. You should not need to talk to young kids that way.
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    Dealing with bad coach and owner

    launched his clipboard, glove and bat. There are a few teams around, but the more I talk to people, the more I hear about Daddy Ball and all of the ills of it.... I paid for the season which includes winter training and spring schedule already...... She will move for the next season Fall 21...
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    Dealing with bad coach and owner

    My youngest daughter is on an overfilled team that rosters 15, 12 U level. It appears that the owner does this to line his pockets every year. Promises of non-parent coaching, excellent training...yada..yada ..yada......... Anyway the head coach was away and the one coach, who is not a parent...
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    Starting a Club Team......?

    I am not coaching the team that she is on that I am somewhat disappointed with. As a coach of other teams (recreation & local travel) I se better opportunity in kids that are more dedicated than what I am coaching. I just think there should be more for the money with the "club travel" softball...
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    Starting a Club Team......?

    I appreciate all of the comments.......keep 'em coming. I agree that the intensity is lacking in what I have been exposed to so far. My daughter likely is not good enough to compete on the national teams. She is an average hitter and pretty decent fielder. I guess in my head, I was expecting...
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    Starting a Club Team......?

    I've been around it for 5+ years. The coaches are not focused equally on all kids on the team. Practices look like they are going through the motions, but there is not really skills development training, It is a general practice. In my mind, outfield should practice outfield.... infield should...
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    Starting a Club Team......?

    For the price, the lack of individualized instruction is poor. There is peer assistance at practice, but, a lot of kids train on their own outside of the team, which I believe results in a group of individuals on the field and not a team. I would think for that price point that there would be...
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    Starting a Club Team......?

    I am located in NJ. There are a whole lot of the travel / club teams. The tuition is in the 2500-3k neighborhood all around us. What I see and speak to others experiencing the same thing, is that although the teams practice, they do not really train. The kids get reps in, but they don't get...
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    Starting a Club Team......?

    I have been coaching for some time now. I have kids that play club ball that I currently coach and have listened to the parents about the complaints that they have about club ball vs. rec and travel ball. I know that they are different animals all together, but the entrepreneur in me is thinking...

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