Coaches or me?????

[coachjwb]

Lol ... love it Jen!

Good communications are an important part of coaching. Like other coaching skills, some are good at it, some are not ... some are better teachers, some are better game managers, etc. If you want to be happy, you need to avoid coaches who are bad at things that are important to you. With that being said, if you want a coach who always tells you and your daughter what you want to hear, and also is very successful in developing players and winning a lot of games, you should probably save yourself the time and not have your kids play organized sports.

 

[lewam3]

Trust me, it's always the coach! My dd plays for a coach that has a swing and miss sign (when there's two strikes on her + two outs + runners in scoring position). She's played on this team for two seasons now and has been getting this sign since fall ball last year. I know this because she hit like a champ at Nationals last August. Then, they took a few weeks off and when they came back, her coach kept giving her this swing and miss sign. So, last weekend a different coach filled in, and he not only had the same swing and miss sign, but he also had a bunt and miss sign (with < two strikes on her, then it became the same swing and miss sign). I asked my dd to please ignore the swing/bunt and miss sign and for some reason she swears there is no such sign. I know she's just covering for her coach and it's not my little angel is just swinging and missing.

It's always the coach and what makes it worse is her coach also has this ridiculous "Tuesday rule". So parents can't call to discuss the past weekends shortcomings until Tuesday after the tournament, which seems way too long after. And I herd the "Tuesday rule" might get changed to the "Wednesday rule", not sure why that is!

Probably the funniest/best post I've ever read on this forum...