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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.   Coaches's decisions can not be challenged.

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]

You're delusional. [b]What is being described at SJC is kids not being allowed to play on the school baseball team[/b] because they won't pay the coaches' private travel program in the offseason. These are kids who are already paying $20K per year to go to SJC. Do you really not see a problem with that?[/quote]

It's a "team" sport.  Coaches have control over who can and can not play.  Your kid may look good to one coach but not to any coach because your kid does not "fit" into his system and there is nothing you can do about it.

If you don't like it, have your kid play individual sports.  That way it takes the control away from coaches.  [/quote]

A coach could absolutely bench that tennis player you name called. [/quote]

No the coach can not do that.  As long as the tennis player does not violate team rules, in good academic standing, and beat everyone at tryouts for the spot, there is nothing the coach can do about it.  Everything at tryouts is on record.  If the coach tries to put in his own mediocre players, he will hear from both the parents and the Ad.[/quote]

Coaches do whatever they want in individual sports as well. One of top US age group swimmers was kicked out from Rockville Montgomery 2 years ago, for a very minor reason, likely, just for parents asking too many questions.  No parents or lawyer were called to administrator’s meeting with minor, a complete coach abuse of his position. Same applies to coaches behavior at other teams. There is nothing that parents can do except finding another team - no legal precedents, even though it’s often career affecting events for the athletes. [/quote]
Why worry about doing anything else, it’s the coaches loss.  Most coaches would love to have that type of kid.  And I’d much rather the coach kick my kid off the team than play him wrong.[/quote]

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