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Originally posted by just another ref
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Originally posted by DG
Focus on changing the league policy officially if you don't want to wear red pants. It may be too late to do this year, but surely can be changed before next year.
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Apparently this is already in the works, making the change for next year. To what? I don't know. It seems that a part of the problem here is that NOBODY likes the red pants. Therefore it evolved into a case of, "If we have to wear them, so do you!" Just the kind of thing you might expect.......if the league was run by 7 year olds.
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I would have tried to really piss off the women by buying some white with red pinstripe pants and saying they were red with white pinstripes, big pinstripes, and that this met the rule for wearing red pants.
I coached in a league once where the all star team always wore white with blue pinstripes (ala NYY), shirt was button down. One year we decided to use two uniforms, Navy pullovers with red and white trim shirts (with their name on the back) with the blue pinstripes, and then the normal full pinstripe uniform. So we used the pinstripe pants for either uniform. Well the kids unanimously decided they wanted to wear blue socks with the full pinstripe uniform and red socks for the other uniform, and I did not care, I just wanted to win, and to have fun doing it. They also wanted red belts when they wore red socks (we wore blue belts with the pinstripe uniform). The parents bought the extra blue with red and white trim shirt, the extra pair of red socks, and the red belts. and the extra pair of socks. We went unbeaten through the district and state tournaments and finished 4th at regionals. And we had fun doing it. There was a little bit of stink raised about us having multiple uniforms until I told the ones raising the stink that the parents paid for the extras so shut up. We also used blue with red bill hats, which was new to the league, they had always used a solid blue hat with their navy pintstripe uniforms. Now with all these combinations you would think some would show up with some wrong combination, but it never happened. The kids (or their parents) understood what they were supposed to wear for each game. All I had to say was "blue shirt" or "white shirt" for the next game.
And when it was all over the kids had a shirt to keep, with their name on the back, because the parents paid for it. Of course we did not have any league rules on uniforms and no busybodys getting into our business. And I was determined to create an atmosphere for the kids that would promote a good experience.
[Edited by DG on Jun 25th, 2004 at 07:03 PM]