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[quote=Anonymous]I haven’t noticed this, no. I have a teen boy who has played all the sports since he was small, now plays baseball and basketball in high school. Our experience has been that coaches really love my son’s teamwork, grit, and unselfishness. He isn’t the superstar on most teams, and he is never the slacker with potential or an attitude. They love him, but that means they want him on the team, not that they’ll give him more attention or play him more. They play whoever will help them win (up to a point). If that means you play the foul mouthed jerk, that’s who you play. And to keep the foul mouthed jerk from getting tossed out of the game takes a lot of coaching - lots of instruction, talks, one on one time. It takes zero time to keep my kid from getting tossed - he’s the first baseman who gives a fist bump to the runner who just got a good hit, and the pitcher who will check on the batter he plunked. He gets a short “nice job” at the end of a game, and that’s it.

For most coaches, your kid will play if they produce. That means your kid has to figure out how to produce more even without the coach’s focused attention often. It does suck, and can feel unfair…but at least your kid isn’t one of the hotheads who yells at umps and throws their bat, right? Being that kid - and coaching that kid - must be awful.[/quote]

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