As the title states, how many of you coaches have had players quit mid-season? How many of you coaches/parents have had/witnessed "Hissy Quits?" What were the reasons?
I had 3 players that left middle of the seasons. This is about a 16 under that left in the middle of the season.
We had one players leave in the middle of the season because she didn’t really want to play anymore. She join the program in August and left the team in June of the next year. She played all the winter events, never missed a practice and was one of the leaders on the team. She was by far the best 3rd basemen I had ever Coached.
I did manage to talk with her about 10 years later and I ask her why she left the team. She told me it was because of her dad. She said she loved playing and really like her team and love the girls like sisters on the team. She went on to say her dad drove her crazy. She went on to say her dad was always putting down the girls on the team that made mistakes to the point she would cry and get upset because she really care about them and it would piss her off that he would act like this. She went on to tell me that why she loved going when here dad couldn’t travel to the tournaments. Because the only thing he would hear about was what she and her mom would tell him.
She said looking back now, she wish she was strong enough then to tell her dad to shut up with out upsetting him or hurting his feelings. Because even with her dad being a jerk she still love him and would never be disrespectful toward him.
As the title states, how many of you coaches have had players quit mid-season? How many of you coaches/parents have had/witnessed "Hissy Quits?" What were the reasons?
How about when you daughter is cut mid season? Sadly happened to mine this year. She was told she wasn’t a good enough player.
Unfortunately, this is happening more often nowadays because many of us developmental coaches are leaving the game and many of the "New" generation don't have a clue as to how to go about it so instead they just recruit and replace. It doesn't matter when they find the next, best replacement player; the rostered player is being replaced whether it's mid-season or not.How about when you daughter is cut mid season? Sadly happened to mine this year. She was told she wasn’t a good enough player.
Unfortunately, this is happening more often nowadays because many of us developmental coaches are leaving the game and many of the "New" generation don't have a clue as to how to go about it so instead they just recruit and replace. It doesn't matter when they find the next, best replacement player; the rostered player is being replaced whether it's mid-season or not.
That said, I find it a bit ironic that they're willing to release every player on their roster at any time throughout the year but their head would explode if the player quit on their own mid-season.