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[quote=Anonymous]I appreciate the insights here. I signed my kid up for a rec league in the fall and was begged by the commissioner to take on an assistant coach role, even though I had no experience in the sport. There was supposed to be a head coach, but he was only there half the time. Most of the parents understood that I was just stepping up into a role they didn’t want, but one of them was frustrated I wasn’t doing a better job running practices and teaching their kid more fundamentals.

I don’t have great executive functioning skills and am an introvert, so I fit more along the lines of the not-committed parents that a PP listed. It was a big stretch for me to take on the role of the head coach once the other guy dropped out. Every game we were scrambling to find enough equipment, and it was very stressful. Parents had their players thank me at the end of each game, but I didn’t get a sense that they themselves were grateful for my stepping up; maybe they just assumed I was doing it for the love of the game?

I like the idea and philosophy of rec leagues, but I saw firsthand how they need some diehard, experienced-in-the-sport parent coaches, who have time and patience, to actually function. I kind of wish I wasn’t already signed up to coach the same team this spring; I have already started getting parent emails asking me about schedules, and I’m like, “I don’t know; this rec league is so janky that they don’t even text the coaches when they cancel games for weather the morning of.”[/quote]

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