Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Mark Padgett
Had four middle school tournament games today. Seven of the coaches were pretty good. They didn't complain hardly at all and asked decent questions politely. However, one guy needed a lesson in how to be a human being. It was a girls coach. This team feeds into one of the top girls HS programs in the country. I'm sure everyone from the Portland area is familiar with this program and knows the HS to which I'm referring.
It wasn't so much that he was a pain to us, (just the usual jerk coach) but he yelled and screamed at his girls the entire game. And I don't mean in a positive manner. In fact, I can't remember even a single positive word spoken by him to any of his players in the entire game even though they played really well and won by over 20. On two different occasions, two different girls were actually crying after this guy finished yelling at them. It was pathetic. My partner spent most of the game just shaking his head. If I was a parent of one of these girls, that guy wouldn't have made it out of the parking lot without needing medical attention. What's wrong with these cretins?
|
Gotta admit, I'm surprised. Most of the coaches in those programs (associated with that school to which you refer) are pretty good, at least to their kids.
I lost all respect for Little League Parents in general when the scandal broke a couple of years ago about that certain person who had a certain basketball development program outside the schools (I'm sure you know who I mean). He was having consensual sex with some of the sixteen and seventeen year old girls, as part of their "payment" for his services. The unbelievable part was the parents' response when they found out about it. None of them wanted to press charges. They didn't even withdraw their kids. When they were interviewed they said, "Well, he can get them scholarships." Some of them had even known or strongly suspected before it became public. But they wanted their little darlings to be stars and no price was too high to pay. They should be put in jail along with the abuser.