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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Played Arlington United 14u team in a tournament this weekend and parents and coaches were awful. Location of AU wouldn’t make sense for us, but if it did, that’s not a group I’d want my DS to be associated with and I definitely couldn’t handle the parents. We watched their coach get ejected in the game after ours and listening to the parents you’d think it was World Series level stakes. Crazy. I’ve learned a lot about other teams over the years at tournaments. Arlington United was waving a giant red flag. [/quote]
Do they have to forfeit if the coach gets ejected?[/quote]

I didn’t stay until the end of the game but one coach got ejected after repeated warnings and nasty language (so this was not an ump being touchy about a coach questioning one call). Second coach had the coaches back and protested the ejection but then reeled it in when the tournament guys came over. Ump let the second coach stay. First coach who was ejected hung around up on the hill chirping loudly enough that the ump stopped the game again and ejected him a second time. Left shortly after that but I was close enough to hear parents from AU complaining about every single call that didn’t go their way. Prior to this game the AU team had not allowed a run and they were behind.  You could feel the panic in what the coaches (and then solo coach) was saying, parents comments.[/quote]

I was there. He was fighting for our kids. I don’t fault him for that at all. The ump was calling strikes on our boys that were in the other batter’s box and told our coach before the game your boys are starting with two strikes. Our coaches are awesome and I’m grateful they had someone fighting for them because the ump certainly didn’t want them to win from the beginning. [/quote]

Glad you are happy with the coach. Maybe something happened in the previous game that I missed but even then I stand by my view that that level of behavior from the coach was outside the bounds of what is appropriate for youth sports.[/quote]

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