What sports have you coached?
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I have found, for myself, after years of coaching different sports that I would rather coach a team that is bad, but with good kids and fun coaches than a really good team with annoying kids and annoying coaches.
It will be nice when the parents who were taught “elbow up!” when they were young hitters are finally cycled all the way out.
That’s a problem in any league these days you will always have parents who know more than the coaches and tell their kids just listen to me .
From a Wrestling perspective.... it would be nice if parents just cheered for their kids in general instead of trying to yell advice from the stands since 99% of them know nothing of what's going on with strategy, when to do something, language/terms and lingo... especially when the kid wants to please them and is listening to what they're yelling. Sons best friend lost an incredibly important win because Dad, the Marine even, had no idea what he was yelling and Jr listened and got stuck... that was a Hard conversation I had to have with the both of them
I helped two co-workers who were brothers coach baseball when their boys were in elementary school. Both brothers played college baseball, so I did not have to do too much. Our team was always good. The brothers each had a son that were good players (both played small college baseball) and then we had two other brothers who grew up to play football at Idaho. Those two boys were studs even back then. My nephew was the kid in the outfield collecting bugs and standing on his head. The younger brother who was a coach played 10 years in Triple A baseball. At the time he was working as an hourly employee for the company we worked for until his trial went to court. Never got called up to the majors. He could throw heat, no control. His last year playing he slipped on a newly poured concrete pad next to the bullpen breaking one leg in five places. It happened when he was playing the Hawaii Islanders in the Pacific Coast League. He sued the state who owned the stadium. The state dragged the lawsuit out as long as they could then settled with him right before it went to trial. He got a large multi-million-dollar settlement.
Another friend and I coached the same kids in basketball. That could be pure chaos.
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Youth baseball: PreWee through Pony League
Youth boys basketball: 3rd grade though 8th
Youth football: 3rd/4th grade flag through 5th/6th grade tackle.
Coached both of my boys while they were growing up.
Youth boys basketball: 3rd grade though 8th
Youth football: 3rd/4th grade flag through 5th/6th grade tackle.
Coached both of my boys while they were growing up.
Was it hard for you? Coaching your own kids?
I have not done it and I have 5 boys.
I managed a 17U game tonight and we lost a 1-0 game. Great pitching. We had our chances just couldn’t push across that run. Love this level. I’ve coached tee ball all the way up through 30 years old. Just have to find your niche. These young men want to listen and learn. Took an 18u team to the Palomino World Series in Laredo, Texas last year. Lost to eventual champion Taipei. Great competition. Great baseball.
You have been extremely lucky or not telling the entire truth .most coaches can’t tell your story.
Definitely telling the truth. Oh, I have some bad experiences along the way. Take the good with the bad. Just like when you’re playing. You have some good coaches and not so good coaches. You learn from them both and you build your resume. How you want to do things. It’s not all wine and roses. Never got paid a cent along the way. Never wanted money because that is not what it’s all about. Matter of fact, I umped a game the other night because our umpires did not show up. I just want the young men to play.
One additional thing, if you are going to coach, you need thick skin. Once you start worrying about what everybody is saying, you’re done. Do it your way, do it the right way, sit back and enjoy the game.
it has taken me many, many years to understand this.
it has taken me many, many years to understand this.
Didn’t mean to get on your case I probably misread your post a little . It’s definitely not all roses . I am 62 and was watching a friends grandsons game. I umpired for 25 years. This particular night 1 ump didn’t show . Nobody from either side would do it I came out and said I can do the bases . Just like the teaching profession I don’t think youth sports are going to get any better.
Today definitely years ago a coach didn’t have to worry because the parents never said a word they let the coach do his job.
It’s all good. I enjoy coaching this age group. Was going to get out last year after the Texas experience with my oldest son, but the GM from the organization I work with asked me to work with this age group due to reorganization. I get to coach with my oldest son and teach him the hows and whys. He loves the game and is going to make a wonderful coach. That’s all.
Or “Just throw strikes, buddy you got this”. Throw strikes. No ****.
Yes and no. I was probably a little harder on them than the other kids as far as expectations but not to the point of being one of those dads living through their kids. To me , they were just another kid on the "team". Plus they never came to me wanting preferential treatment so I guess I must have raised them right in that aspect if nothing else.
This is SO true. I remember coaching my kids in youth football....after I had already coached at the middle school/hs level. That was way harder. You are litterally starting from zero.