24GahannaLadyLions7
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AND Gahannaladylions, since you made a point to like this particular post.
Like myself, some of the others that have commented about what’s been happening with this lady, they are not “new members”. If you’d take the time to read their profile before commenting, you’d see that Softballlover, for example, has been a member since 2015.
That’s the sad thing about all of this. 15 or so emails to Chris Back, people posting on a public forum, and this is still getting second guessed and questioned by a few.
People, this lady is bad news. She has hurt a whole bunch of families and kids. This isn’t just a playing time issue. This is misappropriation of funds. Degrading little girls. Threats. Lies after lies after lies.
What more would you all like to happen before you stop dismissing a serious situation? A situation that families should not find themselves in because it is my opinion that the organizations are obligated to protect those trying out. Those who want to be apart of. It is their job to vet these coaches and protect these kids.
Unless, of course, all they want is to collect the players fees. In that case, I guess it doesn’t matter about the threats, or the kids
It’s January. Retirement Is Boring. It’s cold.
After a drama filled weekend for friends here is my Question of the Day:
The bigger organizations have higher fees than some of the others. With higher fees, I would expect, playing in top showcase tournaments, uniforms, practice facilities/rental for year round practices, recruiting liaison, assistance with being seen by colleges/camps, coaches that have the “in” with college coaches, top notch coaching that has proven knowledge and abilities and can therefor provide top notch instruction, etc, etc, etc
Question: With these fees, would you expect the organizations to hold their coaches to a higher qualification level and standard?
Should you have a coach in a top organization that continues to have a losing record, drama teams, 9-10 player turnovers at the end of the season, using fees to buy big ticket items without organization or parent approval, etc, etc, etc
I wish the 99th post would of replaced the 1st beat around the bush post....
A lot has changed in month or so....
an as before.... 1. I am not saying a change is not warranted 2. Never a fan of the Coach in question (because of research when there was little to go on) 3. and I support the Ohio Stingray organization
but to loop me into a coach who degrades "little" girls, threats and misappropriation of funds is quite disheartening, because if you know me at all, even though quite loud and push them mightily out on the field, I love the girls to death. I am hoping that we aren't just piling on the accusations (degrading) and making it now look worse than it just being drama filled and having a bad unorganized coach. I REALLY hope that you have just learned of the degrading from your research from the time you posted initially, because I would imagine that would be in the forefront of your initial argument rather than win/losses, drama teams, high turnover and leading with a misappropriation of funds.
If there is a coach stepping over the line of emotionally abusing the girls, misappropriation of funds outside of the game, threats to someones well-being, then a change is obviously warranted. If it is drama filled teams, high turnover, losing record, then a mentor coach/management can step in and help the newbie coach and/or removed them.
And the threat of being black-balled, team jumping argument.... there is plenty of softball in the state of Ohio to think a coach of two years has that much power is ridiculous and gullible.