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Please try to keep this “anonymous”, but I’m nearly positive we met today.
You are much better looking in person!
That is a long ass day! I just got in like 30 minutes ago.
I’ll tell you a long ass day…we made it to the championship and I’m going to be home in an hour at the earliest…as far as the old lady knows.
I got a feeling that way more than two teams made the finals today! Haha!
Plus, NO ONE knows how long these things last so it is such an easy lie!
Brilliant. The best reserve HS basketball coaches do not constantly yell instructions. The name of the game is preparing kids for the game. Let them read the court and make decisions. Get off their ass and stop micromanaging. There isn't a decent basketball player in the state who actually likes to be told what to do the entire time. Coaches should calm down and above all, parents in the stands should shut up.
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Track is where it is at. The only issue is in the field events with parents who won't keep their mouth shut. Instead of letting their kid compete and focus on what they need to be focusing on, parents will fill their head with all kinds of bad advice. "Now next time son, as you are jumping, remember to focus on these six things...."
Well then I was brilliant leading them to 4 wins that year! Haha
I have never really done much with track. Since there is a lot of downtime at meets I would imagine parents have plenty of time to "give advice"???
Is that how it ends up happening?
Yes, you might have been! There's a lot that goes into being a reserve basketball coach. Heck, at most places the best sophomore kids are playing up with Varsity anyway.
That's exactly what happens. Take the jumps for instance. Eight to ten in a flight typically. There's a wait in between. The smart parents or parents who competed at a high level, don't say anything to their kids. The athlete shouldn't even be close to their parents when they're jumping. But the parents who watch a YouTube video and think that they know everything will talk, talk and talk some more. I told my athletes not to talk to the peanut gallery. They knew what that meant. So they avoided parents best they could. I once had a Dad who would walk all the way to the runway to talk to his kid. Honest to God, after that it was all over with-- fouls and horrible jumps always followed. The girl was in tears twice at meets, meltdown city. My best kids usually had novices as parents who left everything up to the coach.
An analogy I give people is to compare the time between jumps to shooting free throws. If you miss the first of two free throws, does anyone think it's productive for a parent to yell instructions from the bleachers- "bend your knees", "follow through", "remember to breath" and for good measure tell them frantically to "Relax! Just relax out there!" Is any of that helpful? Would any athlete want to hear any of that?
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when my wife and i were dating, her mom wangled me into coaching her younger sons baseball team... i had played college basketball( 2 years) and college tennis( 4 years) so i was super competitive and THESE boys were not... one time i looked for my third baseman and he was out walking his dog... and we were awful! my mother in law to be said to me " Dave, relax... they don't care!!! have fun with them!" i changed my approach and amazingly we played way better... not always the case but this time it was
That's a great story and a great example of how to coach. Show me a youth coach who is super competitive and nine times out of ten that guy is doing too much shouting and the kids aren't having enough fun. The best coaches I had growing up where all more on the laid back side than hyper side. Maybe that's why I grew up loving sports.
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