If your child’s coach was fired

[Anonymous]

what kind of incidents led to the firing?

[Anonymous]

Really bad performance of the team.

And no growth/development of the players.

[Anonymous]

Altercation with another coach.

[Anonymous]

Team parents went to the board kicked him out. The next coach was just as nuts.

[Anonymous]

Coaching itself was fine, but disorganized so often late, at the wrong field, etc.. Happened one too many times and I suspect the manager complained to the director.

[Anonymous]

The parents all went to the TC together and told him to choose between us and the coach. The next coach was much better and there was a lot less screaming

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks for these comments. I’m starting to feel like many of the coaches we have come across in recent years have anger management mental health issues.

[Anonymous]

Anger/mental health issues - regularly had fights with players, parents
Financial shenanigans, misspending, collecting money from parents and then keeping it instead of using it for what was promised
Cheating - using ineligible players and got discovered

I don't know how people like that still have their license and are able to be around kids.

[Anonymous]

Totally disengaged and could not coach. Parents complained constantly and the next one was worse- total narcissist who couldn’t coach. 75% of the team left at the end of spring

[Anonymous]

Drinking in the evening while chaperoning a sports trip - it was in the evening, but if something happened to one of the kids overnight, the chaperone should not be impaired.

Hitting a player for being disrespectful.

One coach was not fired during the season but was told he wasn't being re-hired due to several seasons of losing records.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Team parents went to the board kicked him out. The next coach was just as nuts.

+1

Same happened with us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Team parents went to the board kicked him out. The next coach was just as nuts.

IME it’s usually the parents who are nuts. Especially when they’re the common denominator in cases like the one you describe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Team parents went to the board kicked him out. The next coach was just as nuts.

IME it’s usually the parents who are nuts. Especially when they’re the common denominator in cases like the one you describe.

One or two nutty families is normal. If every family (including the always positive ones, the ones really don't care, the team manager...) is on board with a coach getting fired, then it's the coach

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Team parents went to the board kicked him out. The next coach was just as nuts.

IME it’s usually the parents who are nuts. Especially when they’re the common denominator in cases like the one you describe.

As it turned out, yes that's what it was. The next coach (dad coach) was just as nuts. The families did not all get along and many tiger moms.

[Anonymous]

Coach sent an email early in the season to all parents explaining that if kids wanted to improve, they could do private lessons with him. Team manager confronted him and they got into a public shouting match after practice one night. He didn't come to the next game. We were told he was "suspended" for 30 days, but he never returned.