Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a lot of experience with coaches.

My son played at a top level college and is an all American and now plays semipro.

Coaches are not hired for their executive functioning skills.

Part of the reason people love to hire athletes is because they are able to tolerate all the terrible things about coaches.

Most are slightly crazy. They are generally terrible at understanding the implications of telling you a schedule on Wednesday night and then changing it Friday at 10 PM for Saturday.

Just be happy if you have a coach it’s good at X’s and O’s.

Then be thankful if they are not verbally abusive.

And then if they Have executive functioning skills holy cow coach of the year!

Maybe you find your coach a mom who loves to be organized. Win-win gives something to do and you guys show up to the right place at the right time.

This is actually super helpful.

It is. But why a mom?

Stereotypically moms are more organized. My DH is more organized than me and it ends up throwing other people off when he's the one who remembers everything and can get people where they need to go when they need to be there better than I can. Everyone just assumes all dads are the disorganized coach.

But if you find the organized dad by all means have him do it.

You coach yiou lazy SOB

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a lot of experience with coaches.

My son played at a top level college and is an all American and now plays semipro.

Coaches are not hired for their executive functioning skills.

Part of the reason people love to hire athletes is because they are able to tolerate all the terrible things about coaches.

Most are slightly crazy. They are generally terrible at understanding the implications of telling you a schedule on Wednesday night and then changing it Friday at 10 PM for Saturday.

Just be happy if you have a coach it’s good at X’s and O’s.

Then be thankful if they are not verbally abusive.

And then if they Have executive functioning skills holy cow coach of the year!

Maybe you find your coach a mom who loves to be organized. Win-win gives something to do and you guys show up to the right place at the right time.

This is actually super helpful.

It is. But why a mom?

Anonymous wrote:I have a lot of experience with coaches.

My son played at a top level college and is an all American and now plays semipro.

Coaches are not hired for their executive functioning skills.

Part of the reason people love to hire athletes is because they are able to tolerate all the terrible things about coaches.

Most are slightly crazy. They are generally terrible at understanding the implications of telling you a schedule on Wednesday night and then changing it Friday at 10 PM for Saturday.

Just be happy if you have a coach it’s good at X’s and O’s.

Then be thankful if they are not verbally abusive.

And then if they Have executive functioning skills holy cow coach of the year!

Maybe you find your coach a mom who loves to be organized. Win-win gives something to do and you guys show up to the right place at the right time.

This is actually super helpful.

Anonymous wrote:I knew I’d get something nasty. Of course. You do realize student athletes are paid 0, right? As are parents. The point is that many coaches are super demanding and critical of kids with ‘no excuses!’ type attitude about everything, but don’t always seem to hold themselves up to the same standards.

Exactly and perfect. They are completely prepared for the working world where their Boss expects everything but completely sucks.

I have a lot of experience with coaches.

My son played at a top level college and is an all American and now plays semipro.

Coaches are not hired for their executive functioning skills.

Part of the reason people love to hire athletes is because they are able to tolerate all the terrible things about coaches.

Most are slightly crazy. They are generally terrible at understanding the implications of telling you a schedule on Wednesday night and then changing it Friday at 10 PM for Saturday.

Just be happy if you have a coach it’s good at X’s and O’s.

Then be thankful if they are not verbally abusive.

And then if they Have executive functioning skills holy cow coach of the year!

Maybe you find your coach a mom who loves to be organized. Win-win gives something to do and you guys show up to the right place at the right time.

Sorry that your experience has been so bad. Overall, we have had mostly great experiences from rec to travel to HS coaches.

As a former coach, I used to partner with someone, a team parent or asst coach to focus on communications.

I knew I’d get something nasty. Of course. You do realize student athletes are paid 0, right? As are parents. The point is that many coaches are super demanding and critical of kids with ‘no excuses!’ type attitude about everything, but don’t always seem to hold themselves up to the same standards.

You do realize coaches are paid very little, right? How about you coach.

Not sure if we are just unlucky but every coach my child has had is a terrible communicator about basics- when practice starts, try out days, where games are etc, and there are regular omissions and typos. We’ve missed try out days because the school calendar was wrong, traveled to games at the wrong place (just parents, kid got on the bus) again because the school calendar was wrong and they forgot to update. Etc.

Latest is dc is being asked to go to a junior ‘recruit’ day at a well known school and literally every single communication about the event does not mention the actual date! ‘Be here by 9AM latest!’… but with no date. ?? I dug through several older emails to find the date and it says *Friday*, Sept 21 (Sept 21 is a *Saturday*).

Fine. Mistakes happen. But it’s just ironic to me how demanding some of these coaches can be with kids- ‘no excuses, boys!’ type stuff all the time.

Vent over.