This is indeed true, but why werent the fences that they have sitting in the yard up? I know from being involved in this that yes you needed to constantly follow up with them and they would have got them up.
The city isnt to blame for the shoddy field conditions. If the city wouldnt let you do field maintenance or trash (Tammy, yard manager has said she welcomed any and all help), how do you plan on getting the city to let Joes players do it next year??
The city was told that the Hawks were going to do between game field maintenance and the city even left rakes at fields for that purpose. After it wasnt done the first 2 days, they came and dragged and lined on Sunday.
The city and Kettering field has faults in this matter, but definitely not all. You cant blame everything on them.
Let me clarify some points made here...
Tammy is no longer there - she retired last year. There was a new first year supervisor there this year - he did welcome hand maintenance rakes/lines. The rakes were purchased by us and placed there by us - not the city. Our coaches and parents were responsible for raking the fields between games - that we are allowed to do - and at Delco and the main complex that went well.
At the 12u diamonds - it did not go so well on Friday and Saturday - that blame falls to us and my coaches/teams. For whatever reason we just have not had enough coaches and parents make the effort to work the fields. As you well know from being a coach, it was that way in past years with some coaches as well. It is also why Hillsdale, UD, Wright State and others will be working the fields next season. They are eager and appreciative of the opportunity to provide for their programs. For us it will be a cost of between $4500 and $6000 in donations made back to their programs, provide a better experience for all the teams and allow our teams to just focus on playing.
On Sunday we lined and raked between every game at all Kettering locations all day. Contact any of the teams still playing on Sunday to verify.
Trash is 100% the cities and they collected everything each morning, I made a point of looking around Fri and Sat night and while cans were full they were not overflowing etc. I agree that they should have done a mid-day collection.
Scorekeeping - MOST teams did text their scores in - some did not at all - esp when they lost and were out - but the winning coach should have taken care of it - I looked at my phone and did not find any from your team all weekend - except the one I texted you for. I actually called your assistant coach on Saturday to get the scores from him as they were not being reported. I did find out that if I made a mistake on entry and went back to correct a game it did not automatically roll the revised winner forward - I had to manually go to the next game and change it. I did mess up the 12u bracket, I had a text with the scores reversed and I entered it without verifying. Butch from the Blazers took the time to call me and walk me thru correcting it. For a tourney with 96 teams in it, all teams knew their bracket seeding and game times for Saturday morning before 9pm Friday night .. I don't know how many times I have received our game times for Sat morning after midnight Friday in other tourny's.
I don't mind legitimate criticism - it is warranted in several areas. We are going to look at the other field locations for next season - if the incoming mayor and parks/rec manager can not offer up assistance for the restrooms and fields we will move it as needed.
Lastly, I do know that the colleges greatly appreciated the opportunity to see the players and all that I spoke with will be back. THEY loved the online scoring, it allowed them to stay out in the park without running back to the scores tables all the time. We, as a first year 16u team, had Miami, Butler, Wright state, UD, Akron and others watch 3-5 innings of our games exclusively on Saturday. That excited my kids and is the real reason we do all this to begin with.