I occasionally work with a forty-something man who is massively constructed. If you wanted to start a fight, he would not be your first choice. He had been asked back to help coach a Peewee League ball team. His goal was not to win, but to develop each player to the peak of whatever that player could be. One day he pulled out their top pitcher while they were winning to give another pitcher some experience. The first pitcher’s father went ape-$hit on him. The other fathers had gathered around and leapt in to retrain the father when he swung a punch. My buddy just stood there the whole time and made no move. My point is that parents can act irrationally. After that the good pitcher’s mother dropped him off and the father was never seen again at a game.
Had my experience with T-ball parents in the 80s....of all the levels I coached at they were undoubtedly the worst.
Got so bad the coaches had a meeting and unanimously voted to stop keeping score......whst did some of the parents do?......kept score in the stands of course. SMH
>> His goal was not to win, but to develop each player to the peak of whatever that player could be.
God bless him! We need more like that in kids’ athletics.
Up until high school and then let ‘em go scorched earth. Because sports! (Nothing turns out parents at a school board meeting like coaching beefs.)
I bet he didn’t get any for a while.