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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're going to have your kids play team sports, then STFU.  You should not be complaining.  In team sports, coaches have all the powers and can decide who can play and who can sit on the bench.   [b]Coaches's decisions can not be challenged.  [/b]

If you or your kids don't want to be put into that situation, play individual sports like tennis, golf, swimming or squash.  The best players get to start and they settle this through match play.  Those with the best record during the trial out will be starters.  DS played varsity tennis for Flint Hill last year and the top player on the team was an absolute a hole but the coach couldn't do anything about it because he earned his top spot on the team by beating everyone.[/quote]

LOL.  I think PP doesn't know much about team sports.  Coaches' decisions get challenged all day every day, even (especially) at powerhouse programs.  Like any program, there are some parents and athletes who are afraid to confront the coach, then there are others (and not just parents of stars) who don't hesitate, even to the extent of demanding that reasonable team rules not apply to them and/or demanding playing time for athletes who miss practices or violate team rules.  Coaches don't need to give in to those demands, but dealing with them is a PITA, particularly when the parents go to the AD and/or administration.  Why?  Because a responsible admin needs to listen at least a bit to ANY issue that gets raised even if just to do due diligence.  In addition, powerhouse programs deal with the media who are looking for a good (often negative) story and with boosters whose expectations become sky high pretty quickly.  In addition, there's recruiting to deal with and keeping current athletes happy.  I know of a  DMV top 20 high school team that lost talented kids (including power-5 conference D1 commits) both of the last two years as transfers because the coach thought he could insist on a "my way or the highway" approach, and several key players chose "highway."  Also, as a coach, when you try to push your way too hard without getting buy in from your players, talented kids can underperform and you lose games.  That also happened to the coach I'm thinking of.[/quote]

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