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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only thing I'll yell at our team (I'm a parent and an assistant coach) is to spread out.  Because they have a tendency to bunch up, despite us telling them 1,000,000 times in practice to spread out, and they don't realize they are doing it, and it has directly contributed to some losses for us.  We yell "spread out," and they do it and sometimes they even stay spread out.  We'll also tell a girl she is off-sides so she can get on-side before the ref whistles..[/quote]

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I think yelling can be fine when it's used productively.  All things being equal, being competitive is more fun than getting blown away.  And the only way the kids are going to be competitive is if they do what they are supposed to be doing based on what they've been instructed to do in practice.   There's a huge difference between yelling instruction (fine) and berating kids (never fine).

As for yelling per se, let's not pretend that this is a recent phenomenon.  The Bad News Bears came out in 1976.  Neither Walter Matthau's or Vic Morrow's characters would ever be mistaken for Mr. Rogers...

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