radness
Possibilities & Opportunities!
- Dec 13, 2019
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Thats ok, I just commented so people didn't think incorrectly of what I meant.Sorry, I was paraphrasing
Having choices is a good thing, as long as expectations are clearly spelled out.
So if there was a coach at a tryout who gathered the parents together and announced, “If you are invited to play for me, I expect that you will have no contact with your daughter from the time you arrive until after the last game of the day,” I’d be a little leery. And grateful, that he/she spelled that out and we could shift our focus to finding a different team.
This board is filled with horror stories about coaches who are bad people but continue to attract good players because they have a reputation for winning.
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Can imagine that it could sound like a horror story if it was presented like that.
However it's interesting how little information people will get when they select a team to play for. The fact that people will select teams without having any idea how the coach is going to facilitate the team seems like a horror story in the making.
This comment might blow some people out of the water. But I know this coach in particular specifically did not want extra added static and gossip junk that can evolve from parent participation over helicoptering and added telephone calls that do nothing but cause more static and have nothing to do with facilitating the team. He eliminated that factor by a great amount with his standard. By being a coach who would not be influenced by parents pressure. Removed parental junk affecting the players by a great margin.
In doing so, produced success yearly and had people waiting in line to hopefully earn a spot on his roster.
Even going to add to that that he did not have the most pleasant personality to watch on the field. But he cares a heck of a lot about the players,
and always has!
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