Posted on 11/04/2006 4:21:46 AM PST by T-Bird45
The South County Raptors, a scrappy football team made up of 12- to 14-year-old boys from southern Fairfax County, were supposed to meet the Herndon Hornets today in the first round of the county playoffs.
Instead, the Raptors are at home, their season over with no possibility of a championship after a league commissioner fired the head coach and the assistant coach this week. Their offense? They moved the commissioner's son from defense to offense for the final game of the season last Saturday, an overtime win that put the Raptors in the postseason.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
agreed
The coach was probably just dizzy from the world revolving around Scott.
And the reason the coaches and other parents didn't tell this maniac to take a flying leap is ....? (sound of crickets ...)
Who would want to be the kid of a jerk like this? Life as this mans son knew it is over. Both the father and the son will be pariahs and jokes. The other kids and their parents are going to remember and make them pay in ways big and small.
Quote from the article: "This entire league exists so he can play defense on the best team in his weight class. . . . He is my son, I own the league, and he plays every snap on defense."
What a jerk!
Sounds like he's going to take his ball and go home where he can have a good cry or continuing throwing his tantrum (the father, not the son).
Wish they'd included an email address for the good commissioner.
Agreed. Things like that never get forgotten or forgiven and shouldn't, at least as far as the kid's despicable father is concerned.
I used to work at a sporting goods store and there was one particularly obnoxious dad, who happened to play second or third string QB at LSU in the late 60s, who would come in and demand we sell super-expensive clothing and hats for his son's high school. He never bought it, he just wanted to see it on the rack.
Between his son's junior and senior year, he yanked him out of the school and transferred him to another one because he didn't like the way the coach was utilizing his kid. That year, he came in and did his usual demand for all-new hot things for the new HS that he wouldn't buy anyway. The owner finally told him to get lost.
Working in a family run sporting goods store and coaching little league for a year showed me that they weren't making up much about parents in "The Bad News Bears", or just about any movie about high school football.
Who?
The coach who (for whatever reason) agreed to those rules, abided by those rules, then violated those rules in the final game of the season? I agree. He's a jerk who let down these kids.
Certainly the coach bears full responsibility for what happened. You disagree? Do you think the lesson for these kids should be that we only obey the rules that we agree with?
I'm sure it's like this in other sports, but I've never seen such a level of parental "involvement" than I have in youth football.
Our son only played one year and had a pretty good experience, but only in youth footbal do you get the level of coaches yelling at kids and parents acting like animals.
Of course that might all change now he's at an age where he's allowed to body check in lacrosse this spring...
Here's Mr. Hinkle's email address:
commissioner@southcountyyouth.org
I guess you didn't read the part where the coaches thought that the understanding included them playing the kid where they thought best. Which is what coaches usually do.
Good lord you must have never gone to a youth soccer game! When I first met my husband he was coaching a U13 boy's team, the behavior I witnessed on the sidelines was deplorable at best. I actually heard one mother tell her son that if he didn't run faster she was going to break his legs.
The simple truth is that parents get involved with youth activities to benefit their child. If their involvement helps other kids, the competition, well that cant be helped, and can be spun to benefit the image of the involved parent.
You're correct the sponsor made the terms of his sponsorship perfectly clear, and was in his rights to stick to the deal. The coach never should of accepted the terms offered.
Which "rules" did the coach violate? According to the article,
[League Chairman Mark Meana] said that because the coaches did not violate any league rules, the league did not get involved in the dispute. However, he said, the league will investigate the firings. Owens has coached youth football for seven years.
So it appears that the jerk is Mr. Hinkle, the league commissioner, not the coach.
I bet she didn't.....nothing worse then a parent with a lack of commitment.....That kid will never respect her if she doen't follow through on what she says..../s
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