Youth Sports Coaching

[remydat]

I gave up on coaching kids because parents are fucking stupid. I used to coach Little League baseball but then I started to hear rumblings of parents questioning why a dude with no wife and kids who didn't go to church would be interested in coaching kids. And to top it off I was a minority. So I pretty much finished up my first season and got the **** out of there before some parent decided I was secretly a pedophile or satanist.

 

[Urblock]

I gave up on coaching kids because parents are fucking stupid. I used to coach Little League baseball but then I started to hear rumblings of parents questioning why a dude with no wife and kids who didn't go to church would be interested in coaching kids. And to top it off I was a minority. So I pretty much finished up my first season and got the **** out of there before some parent decided I was secretly a pedophile or satanist.

That sucks. I would have had your back. Our last softball coach was black and a good coach. A very good coach but people were on his back from day 1. When my kids were done so was he. Nobody to stand with him.

 

[The Hawk]

I gave up on coaching kids because parents are fucking stupid. I used to coach Little League baseball but then I started to hear rumblings of parents questioning why a dude with no wife and kids who didn't go to church would be interested in coaching kids. And to top it off I was a minority. So I pretty much finished up my first season and got the **** out of there before some parent decided I was secretly a pedophile or satanist.

I'd never go back to coach little league. No thank you. High school and travel ball was a lot of fun because you didn't have to put up with parents nearly as much and the rules were able to be enforced.

 

[The Hawk]

Most kids in 3rd grade are 10 years old by the time baseball season starts(spring of their grade year).

Go have some cream of wheat and simmer down.

I don't think that is correct becuse that would make more kids graduating high school at 19 years old and I know that isn't true. Most kids graduate high school at 17 or 18 years old assuming that they don't get held back a year.

 

[The Hawk]

Nice thread gone sideways. :yep:

Yeah. You are right.

 

[The Hawk]

As a kid from 9-15 I was a good pitcher. We played baseball all day during the summer: organized games at 9, noon and 6pm, then Little league, off the wall and even softball. I was throwing the ball all day, everyday. Then one day my arm went dead. Could no longer throw with any velocity. By 15 I was done as a pitcher

Unfortunately that happens. But am I hearing that you played three organized games a day in the summer? In leagues? We played all day in unorganized games but just for fun and pretty much everyone "pitched". But the object was to have the batter hit the ball not to try and strike a guy out.

For the record, very few of my players got shot arms because I pretty much am a coach who actually pitched at a high level and coached at a high level and kind of know what to do and not to do. Rest is also important and over-throwing is usually the culprit because when that happens muscles, tendons, and other breakdowns occur. Even at the highest level of baseball, pitchers do not throw their hardest unless they are specialists of some kind. It is there that deception and ball movement that are more important than raw speed.

 

[The Hawk]

In case anyone cares, the IHSA has put in place a pitch count rule for the first time this year. Not exactly sure what they cap at, but I believe it's weekly and not per game or anything like that. My buddy, who is the HC for a very successful program loves it. Not sure if it's because of the health of the player, or because he has 7 pitchers with at least D-2 talent.

There is an innings limit in high school out here in California not a pitch count. As for your buddy having 7 pitchers with at least D2 talent, I have watched a lot of high school games and never saw a team with 7 D-2 talent pitchers. It must be a private school program. Am I correct? Some of the best programs I have seen have may at best have three or four guys that consume most of the work-load. OF course you are always working on the pipe-line with young kids from freshman year on but to have seven stud guys on a high school team is pretty amazing to me.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

It is not a private school. It is a very baseball rich community.

 

[Omeletpants]

Unfortunately that happens. But am I hearing that you played three organized games a day in the summer? In leagues? We played all day in unorganized games but just for fun and pretty much everyone "pitched". But the object was to have the batter hit the ball not to try and strike a guy out.

For the record, very few of my players got shot arms because I pretty much am a coach who actually pitched at a high level and coached at a high level and kind of know what to do and not to do. Rest is also important and over-throwing is usually the culprit because when that happens muscles, tendons, and other breakdowns occur. Even at the highest level of baseball, pitchers do not throw their hardest unless they are specialists of some kind. It is there that deception and ball movement that are more important than raw speed.

We had self organized fast pitch games at 3 regular times every day. Every pitch and out was hotly contested on general principal so I was throwing hard all day long in some sort of a game. We would fill 2 full teams and have people waiting. Outside of that we had LL, Senior League, HS baseball, off the wall, running bases etc. It was all too much and there wasnt much science behind pitching and rest.

 

[Burque]

Did we witness a full hawk moment here? Just curious.

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[Gustavus Adolphus]

Did we witness a full hawk moment here? Just curious.

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Yes.

 

[RacerX]

I actually started coaching at the college level in graduate school as a grad assistant at Kent State University. Thurman Munson was on that team. I then as a parent coached at the little league level, on to Pony league. THen after my kid decided not to play high school ball, I coached baseball for four years in high school and in travel ball for high school kids. Won many tournaments and regional championships in the Mickey Mantle baseball system (15-16 yr olds), and took two teams to their national championship tournaments in Harligen, Texas, finishing 2nd in one and 3rd in another.

BTW, I got your "eye" insult. Typical same insultng shit by you. I came damn close to losing my eye in Viet Nam so **** YOU for that also. You really are a big time piece of shit asshole. My eyes are fine now thank you very much. Good enough to see how fucked up you are.

Thank you for your service. And don't listen to some snot-nosed fucktard that isn't nearly as smart as he thinks he is, big man picking an online sissy-fight with a Vet.

Go **** yourself Rory.

 

[truthbedamned]

Can you imagine parents got pissed when my Tball team would crush the oppenants by 15 runs?

Pussies.

I coached my son in baseball from the age of 4 to 16. I also coached the "traveling" team. During the regular season all kids got the same playing time and nobody gave a shit who won and who lost.

When it came to the traveling team I and the other coaches selected 25 kids and invited them to try out. We chose 15 kids and had no issue telling parents the reason their kid did not make the team is because they weren't good enough.

Once the team was established the best kids played. Period. Little league rules were followed but anyone complaining Johnny was not getting enough playing time was told the exact reason Johnny was on the bench. We did not pull punches.

This crap that every game ends in a tie and everyone gets a trophy is horseshit. Explain that to your kid as he watches the WS or the NBA finals. Or when he is rejected for a scholarship or a job.

 

[Urblock]

Don't you guys think you're being a little hard on Hawk? You may not like him but respect is not that difficult to show. You guys can do better.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Don't you guys think you're being a little hard on Hawk? You may not like him but respect is not that difficult to show. You guys can do better.

You should lock this threa......oooooh.

 

[truthbedamned]

You should lock this threa......oooooh.

**** you. Shut up.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

**** you. Shut up.

We were doing so good the other day.

 

[Crystallas]

I recently just finished up my oldest son basketball season. I had a parent call me during practice to complain about drills that I was running during a practice. What was funny is the parent was sitting their the whole time, but felt the need to call while I was running a practice vs just asking me. The drill was a defensive drill, and the parent could not understand why I would not let her child shoot the ball. Told them you cannot shoot when your on defense you shoot on offense. Then during a game she legit walked up to my wife, and asked why the other team tries to steal the ball from us when we have it, and she felt it was rude and mean. She asked who she could contact to have it changed. My wife told her its called playing defense, and maybe you should watch a college or pro game. Anyone else run into brain dead parents when coaching?

I only coached for 3 years as a favor to a friend who retired from coaching and had little issues with parents, but there's always some rageaholic parent out there that thinks they can scream someone into giving their kids special treatment.

 

[FirstTimer]

I did not like the innings played bullshit record keeping. Is that a big deal to you?

It just means you were a shitty coach who was lazy.

 

[FirstTimer]

Don't you guys think you're being a little hard on Hawk?

No.