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[The Dad Fisherman]

There's A-Holes everywhere...not just coaches. And I do mean Everywhere.

there are also Great People everywhere...including coaches.

And Raven, I agree, there isn't much emphasis put on life skills anymore.

Its the Mom-ification of America

[Raven]

Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

There's A-Holes everywhere...not just coaches. And I do mean Everywhere.

there are also Great People everywhere...including coaches.

And Raven, I agree, there isn't much emphasis put on life skills anymore.

many of them A-holes drive red cars i've found.... cars not trucks !
they will cut you off /slam on there brakes in front of you or generally drive like #^&#^&#^&#^&s.

i guess in my life experience i met up with "one to many"
coaches that were of the A-hole variety rather than the
inspirational best friend mentor variety so that i learned more
life skills and nature activities as a result (i'm now jaded)and basically...........
gave the Bird finger to most team sports and chose the austere
and solitary nature experience as my favorite pastime.

[Cool Beans]

Originally Posted by Raven

many of them A-holes drive red cars i've found.... cars not trucks !
they will cut you off /slam on there brakes in front of you or generally drive like #^&#^&#^&#^&s.

i guess in my life experience i met up with "one to many"
coaches that were of the A-hole variety rather than the
inspirational best friend mentor variety so that i learned more
life skills and nature activities as a result (i'm now jaded)and basically...........
gave the Bird finger to most team sports and chose the austere
and solitary nature experience as my favorite pastime.

Admit it, somewhere there is a coach driving a red car that must have made you run a million laps.....

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Cool Beans

Admit it, somewhere there is a coach driving a red car that must have made you run a million laps.....

but i've driven across country ten times and thats how i learned
about the RED car phenomenon.

but i will admit....that i was made to run way to many laps in high school and P.E. was always first period so for the rest of the day your clothes were destroyed by either perspiration or steam from the locker room and sticking to you! No matter how much i complained it was always "tough luck pal".

So i devised a plan to be last in LINE each time and when the timing was right i would simply dash into the bushes and head for my secret locker hidden deep in the woods with all my fishing gear waiting for me. Screw them ! I never got caught!

[Saltheart]

When I played HS football you ran laps every day. If he was late , he probably just had to make up the laps they had to run to start practice and warm up. In fact asking the kid to start right in sprinting on plays would be pretty stupid until he had a chnace to run some laps and stretch and warm up. There is no way to justify the father sticking his nose into how the coach handled lateness or anything in the practice. As a paraent you may decide the coach is a psycho and not let you kid play anymore but you would never stick your nose into how tyhe practice was run.

Anyway , parents and coaches should not fight with eachother. Its just another case of people thinking something like HS football is the most important thing in the world.

As far as numbers of laps we used to run I have no idea. It had to total a bazillion over the years. If you dropped a ball you ran laps. If the offense got past the D in the scrimmages you ran laps. If the offense didn't get by the D they ran laps. If you did something that would have resulted in detention and the football coach had to get you out so you would make practice you paid it back with a million laps. Everything and anything got you laps.I know after every practice we did wind sprints and backwards running and crabbing until everyone was ready to drop. It was actually a relief to start the miles of simple lap running which was the last thing we did so the end was in site!! If you hurt a shoulder or something on the upper body where you couldn't practice , you used to just run laps to break up the boredom and in fact it was easier than just standing around in the cold. Laps seemed punitive but in fact they were a way to make sure you never got tired while playing a game.

Anyway , as was said , a player running laps in football is such a trivial everyday thing its hard to believe it came to blows between the parent and the coach. Its not unusual though. I can remember playing in a little league baseball game where two coaches on the same team started nailing eachother over one of their sons not getting playing time. Imagine fighting over a baseball game between 8 year olds!! Its a wacky world!

[MAC]

One of the guys on our crew knows the coach. According to him the hittee was the aggressor who persued it. A lot of taunting and rediculing by the hittee. The coach warned him to stop or he would teach him a lesson. Well the hittee didn't believe the coach and said lets go, thinking he would have the upper hand......

By looking at the pic I'd bet the hittee will keep him mouth shut in the future. I feel bad for the coach.