HS athletes get up and go to school earlier in the summer than they do through the year. About 3/4 of the summer break. They go straight out of one sport into another. No breaks to speak of. No way a 16yo boy can have a job if he plays sports. 13yos have to be at the school at 6:30 and picked up at 9:00. No consideration whatsoever that parents have jobs. No consideration whatsoever that some families might need their teenage kids to work summer jobs or the kids might want to. Coaches kids play whether they can play or not. A coaches kid will make the team 100% of tge time, it dont matter how bad they suck. And the kid who is way better at that position sits the bench, a kid who might havea future playing ball gets robbed of that future so coaches kid can play every down or every inning. That is theft.coaches are stealing kids futures who practice hard, play hard and deserve to play. I have seen a coach force his son to take the field with his son screaming "no daddy, i dont want to play", and the kid wanting to play that position sitting on the bench wishing he could get on the field. Coaches kids making error after error costing the team games and they never come off the field. Thats messed up. Thats just a couple of things going on at the school. Then theres all the parents bs that they do. I wont even get into sll that. It has definately turned quite a few people i liked and some i really looked up to into people i dont even want to be around.
My nephew plays baseball for Jesuit Catholic in Tampa, a nationally ranked program. They have to go thru tryouts for both fall and spring seasons, no guaranteed spots just because you made the team last season. Head coach cut his own son in the spring of his junior yr, and cut the asst coaches son his sophomore yr.
All i ever wanted was for Joseph to have a chance to compete. The coach told me before practice ever started he would not be QB, no competition, the other kid was by far the best choice. At that point, that kid wasnt even on the team and Joseph had done everything he was asked to do for four years. During that conversation with the coach, he lied to me several times, then lied to Joseph the next day, trying his best to keep him on the team.
Pwyse, you are exactly right, hes the coach and its his team. His team has won less games than any other team in Cleveland history, he has gotten more kids hurt than have ever got hurt in a season. The team is smaller than its ever been and alot of the boys playing now are saying they wont play next year. We played for a state championship two years ago, then we got this coach. The next year, with more seniors than the year before, we lost several games, pretty bad too. This year so far weve beat one team that was a gimme, and it was closer than its ever been. He was by trade an offensive line coach. Our offensive line is the worst ive ever seen, with two linemen who weigh over 300lbs each. He didnt put a man on the field to recieve the kickoff at the first home game. At one of the jr high games, which hes also the head coach of, they got down by 40 or so and he walked off the field and went and sat with his kid in the bleachers with a quarter left to play. That all happened. If theres a silver lining to this cloud, i havent found it.
