As an athlete, have you ever played on a team “coached” by someone who never should have been a coach?
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Junior high football coach. He was a clown then and looking back, my assessment then was right. What do you do? If you are my Dad’s son, you play and finish the season because the team and the game are bigger than you, and you always finish what you start.
We probably all have. So what do you do?
Yes!
This guy was a real snake in the grass.
He's dead now but I despise him still.
Fat Jack Kubiak was my football coach for 3 yrs. What a clown and a bastard. Stood up a our banquet and said the not only was the team losers but the town were losers as well. After he left, 50 yrs ago, all the football team has done is win, year in and year out. (there are a few exceptions)
I wouldn’t say that they didn’t deserve to be coaches but they didn’t deserve to be coaches at the level or in the sport that they coached. My high school baseball coach was an outstanding football coach who is in the western PA Hall of Fame for it. But his son got kicked off the baseball team as a junior so he became our baseball coach for our senior year. He didn’t know anything about baseball but he knew how to communicate with kids and run a practice. Since he didn’t know what he was doing we lost a lot of close games because he was playing his senior sons friends instead of sophomores who were better and didn’t understand situational baseball.
my high school basketball coach for my first three years wasn’t a bad X & O guy but all he ever wanted to do was scrimmage and practice and he definitely played his friends kids more than they should have. My sophomore and junior years the best 2 players on the team came off the bench all season even while leading the team in every statistical category
my high school basketball coach for my first three years wasn’t a bad X & O guy but all he ever wanted to do was scrimmage and practice and he definitely played his friends kids more than they should have. My sophomore and junior years the best 2 players on the team came off the bench all season even while leading the team in every statistical category
I am amazed at the patience of little league baseball coaches, especially teaching fundamentals to children who are learning to interact socially post covid.
Eight grade basketball coach picked the kids who had pubic hair. Usually they were the better and bigger players at that age. We had 6 kids who were 6 ft tall in 8th grade. They played the most if not the entire game. Guess what, none were to be found on the high school team by the time they were Jr's and Sr's. The late bloomers had passed them up by that time.
If you love the game you play and hope a real coach comes along
oh I did, but it was painful, and I feel for the guys older than me that never got that chance to play for a real coach. The amount of talent that man pissed away sickens me sometimes.
Really difficult for young folks ages 5-18 to get good coaches in community/school sports. The spectrum runs good people who don’t know the game to high-strung people whose biggest thing in athletic life will be coaching a youth team and know nothing about working with children. I remember a fellow coaching 11 year old little league all-stars who yelled to the ss “quit standing around with you thumb up your azz and field the ball”. He was the hand-picked hero of the LL President, only 3 of the kids from that team made it to hs varsity.
Best coach both my sons had was a former NFL QB who let the kids have fun, won games, and kept things in age/appropriate perspective. He didn’t need to inflate his ego coaching children.
Best coach both my sons had was a former NFL QB who let the kids have fun, won games, and kept things in age/appropriate perspective. He didn’t need to inflate his ego coaching children.
Yes, the defensive coordinator of my freshman football team. Always heard rumors about him but there were always rumors about certain teachers. Then one day at practice while the offense was working on some specific things he was staring at the girls track practice and said, “Hey connorpozlee, would you look at Susie over there! If I was your age…….. or even mine………” and he started laughing. I just walked away. A few years later he was caught in a relationship with a different high school student. Scumbag.
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