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| Are you kidding? I bet the guy would be ready to go to war on the spot but they don't see what they're doing as wrong. Go figure.
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| Got to love how adults treat kids, huh? I bet if someone was doing that to his boy, he would be really upset.
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| Last night I was at our high school boys hockey game. I was watch from the glass near the Zamboni room. At the end of the 2nd period our high school goalie told me that everytime he made a nice save a fan from the opposing team was flipping him off. So one of the hockey dads and I started watching this jerk. About 1 minute into the 3rd period the guy does it again. We confronted him about it and told him if we see it again he will be asked to leave the areana. I just cant believe the way some people act at a kids game.
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| I tried. With being a teacher, a little more money couldn't hurt at all. I figured if I could get OT pay, maybe my next game could go into a couple of OT's.
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Boodaddy,
Have they stopped laughing hysterically yet? OT pay for refs? That's just crazy talk.
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| I just know that I will try not to schedule a game with that team next year. See what happens. I got to ref the girls game today, boy the parents don't like calls. Oh well I guess I will never win. Unfortunally my school's girl's basketball team lost in OT 10-4. Really great game. I tried to ask their coach, or PE teacher, since it went into OT if I get paid more. Can't hurt to try:)
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Boodaddy,
Aww man, I've heard fo homering but that's just wrong. Luckily for us we all play on the same two courts. so half the time, we're home, half we're away but there have been times where certain league officials have cherry picked teams so that the best and tallest are all on the same team. We try not to mention that too loudly but when we all are supposed to eval the talent and all the highest scorers end up on the same team, it's just an odd coincidence.
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I totally agree with you RUSS1985. I coach 5th, & 6th grade boy's basketball and have seen those parents.
Our team was up against another team that was using very dirty play like not playing man-on-man, which a rule in our league. I had one of my players come over and stand by the half court line and his player was standing in the paint about 12 feet away from my player and the other coach couldn't see that his player was in the wrong. Also the other team's players were holding on to our guys arms and shirts during the game. Did I also say the lack of word choice on school property? Guess not. We had to play them at their school a couple of weeks later and one of their coaches was refing, not happy about that, and we were losing by 1 point with 10 seconds left and I called a time out. Guess what? He didn't see that I did. I think he wanted his team to keep their perfect season.
I think I am done venting like you did for now.
You handled the situation great. Congrads to you.
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You know, it's funny because I talked to the coach of that team today. Their team scrimmages my 5-6th team (Maybe that's another reason they beat my other daughter's team. I'll have to think about that) He's pretty cool about Sunday. But then again he knows he's going to face a different team in February.
But I know each of us can point to a parent or two that falls into this category. I had a dad who was sure his daughter was the next Kobe Bryant. Last year, I had another set of parents that didn't understand why all offense wasn't run through their daughter. That's why I make a point of making sure my kids are sportswomen, win or lose.
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Hey Russ,
I know exactly what you mean. I have coached many teams for my kids and having the one occasional parent freak on you is the only thing that I dont like. I don't tolerate it well. I have also been assistant coach a few times as well and like it a little better, less paper work and you arent the first target. You have my support.
Jeff
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| I almost was but I figured if I lost my temper, it would just look like I had sour grapes against the other team. I get along great with the coach and I coached against a lot of his players. If this woman decided not to show up to a game for a few weeks, I'd be happy.
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| You handled it well. I would have been much more "blunt" and rude about it with her.
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All right fellas and whatever ladies feel like chiming in here, I'm a little P.O.ed at some people and this is about as safe a place as I can think to let it loose. I coach girls basketball at the little league level (3rd through 8th grade) and while the majority of parents are fun loving, just want to see their kids learn and grow in the sport, I occasionally run across the psycho ex-athlete dad or the Uber-soccer mom who lives vicariously through their kids. This weekend I had to deal with Uber-soccer mom.
I was scorekeeping at my younger daughter's game. My younger daughter's team (That I am the assistant coach for) was just getting pasted to the wall, partly because the coach of the other team has taught them to play rough (elbows, scratching, whatever the refs don't see, etc.) and partly because I worked with the opposing team's biggest player a few nights before (She's a head taller than any of the other girls and frankly needed to be in my 5th-6th grade league). She saw me coaching my daughters and asked for advice on her shot. I told her two or three things that she should work on and that was it. After that, Sunday, she promptly torched us for about eight points.
The last 10 minutes, the girls are allowed to full court press as long as you're not up by 10 (It's a mercy rule). Anyway, the game was well lost by the last 10 minutes so I informed the opposing team's coach he could not press unless the lead dropped below 10. He was cool with that and the game went on. This should have been it for the matter but then the other team's Team mother, who I found out later had been annoying the other parents in the stands with enough smack talk (at a 8-10 yr. old girls basketball game) to warrant her to go sit by the coach for safety sake (My wife and a couple of the dads wanted to tell her off but it's a kids game so they just grumbled loudly.)
She came over to talk to myself and the another mom at the scorers table to ask why her team couldn't full court press. I informed her of the rule, If you have a 10 point lead or more in the last 10 minutes, you can not press full court. You can however still use a half court press. She mentioned that she should still be able to full court press in order to "Really put this team away". So I said, "Jeez lady, you're up by 12 now. Why not just send them out to kill?" This part maybe I shouldn't have said but I am happy I didn't just cuss the wench out. Since this is a "learning league" there some safeguards that are built in that keep us from just slaughtering teams because we want these kids to keep playing and enjoying the game. She retreated from the scorer's table and went back to the bench. The far side of the bench. If there is one thing that I have really no tolerence for it's overzealous parents hyped up to watch their kids tear down another team. If you need that kind of thrill, suit up, lace up and drag your own a$$ up and down the court.
On a side note, the girl who I helped with her shot and her parents ran over and thanked me for the help I gave her after the game. I told them no problem and gave her some more advice "Slow down her shot. Don't let the excitement get the best of her." And wished her good luck. It is a learning league after all and I plan on teaching anyone who will listen.
OK rant over. I'm off of the soapbox
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