02Crush
Way past gone
Apologies for the lengthy post.
What would you have done? (Humor is okay too
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Last week we held our early summer tryouts. We were a 10U team moving up to 12U. In this tryout we are typically opening the team up to Rec Ball Players who are interested in Travel Ball. We are looking for the diamonds in the rough before they settle into Summer and are still prepared and motivated from playing all Spring.
So I showed up early and set up the field and prepared to sign in players/families. As I was signing up people I noticed an opposing 12U TB coach from within our park setting up signs for his tryouts. Conveniently, they are the night after mine (tomorrow). His signs are every 50 feet walking into the field areas. Some are 3 feet tall and leaning against every light pole or fence corner he could fill. He then sets up with some kids as if in a practice on the field next to us. For the entire time we are hosting our tryouts he is yelling and being as loud as he can to announce HIS tryouts for all to hear. About 45 minutes into to our tryout I look over to notice he has moved all his signs in near the field he is on and turned them around so all the recruits we have out could see them as they walked out when we were done.
I was caught off guard by his actions. I have known him for 4 years now. I have coached his DD and thought we were on good terms. One of my assistants was very upset by his actions and I was not sure why. I later found out from two different people (one of them my assistant) that this guy has been talking trash about his players, his assistant coach and me as a coach to anyone who will listen. He has done this at a local sports store where I have a great relationship with the owner. The owner told me about it. I also found out because he showed up at my assistant's DD's Middle School Feeder team tryouts to recruit. While there he talked trash about all the above mentioned people with him and others. My assistant got so upset he had to walk away from him. He said things like, "My assistant coach is a bad coach but a great recruiting tool." This is because she played Division I ball in the 90's and he readily throws this out there for all to know. He has also said weird stuff like, "(Me) is not dedicated to his players. He is only dedicated to the Team." ????Really????? I thought this was a team sport?
Everyone says to let it go and ignore him but I really am tired of these antics. It would be nice just once to actually speak my mind and be as rude to him as he has been to me. Never in a million years would I have thought a coach would go as low as to show up in person and advertise his team's tryouts during mine as a way of recruiting. Is this something you guys feel is okay? Is this something you would've tolerated? I know he will eventually hang himself but sometimes I wish others would call him out as being out of line.
What would you have done? (Humor is okay too
)Last week we held our early summer tryouts. We were a 10U team moving up to 12U. In this tryout we are typically opening the team up to Rec Ball Players who are interested in Travel Ball. We are looking for the diamonds in the rough before they settle into Summer and are still prepared and motivated from playing all Spring.
So I showed up early and set up the field and prepared to sign in players/families. As I was signing up people I noticed an opposing 12U TB coach from within our park setting up signs for his tryouts. Conveniently, they are the night after mine (tomorrow). His signs are every 50 feet walking into the field areas. Some are 3 feet tall and leaning against every light pole or fence corner he could fill. He then sets up with some kids as if in a practice on the field next to us. For the entire time we are hosting our tryouts he is yelling and being as loud as he can to announce HIS tryouts for all to hear. About 45 minutes into to our tryout I look over to notice he has moved all his signs in near the field he is on and turned them around so all the recruits we have out could see them as they walked out when we were done.
I was caught off guard by his actions. I have known him for 4 years now. I have coached his DD and thought we were on good terms. One of my assistants was very upset by his actions and I was not sure why. I later found out from two different people (one of them my assistant) that this guy has been talking trash about his players, his assistant coach and me as a coach to anyone who will listen. He has done this at a local sports store where I have a great relationship with the owner. The owner told me about it. I also found out because he showed up at my assistant's DD's Middle School Feeder team tryouts to recruit. While there he talked trash about all the above mentioned people with him and others. My assistant got so upset he had to walk away from him. He said things like, "My assistant coach is a bad coach but a great recruiting tool." This is because she played Division I ball in the 90's and he readily throws this out there for all to know. He has also said weird stuff like, "(Me) is not dedicated to his players. He is only dedicated to the Team." ????Really????? I thought this was a team sport?
Everyone says to let it go and ignore him but I really am tired of these antics. It would be nice just once to actually speak my mind and be as rude to him as he has been to me. Never in a million years would I have thought a coach would go as low as to show up in person and advertise his team's tryouts during mine as a way of recruiting. Is this something you guys feel is okay? Is this something you would've tolerated? I know he will eventually hang himself but sometimes I wish others would call him out as being out of line.
