Im about to get fired!!

That's great..could be worse though she could be wearing 00

LOL!

Wow, I can imagine. The boys (all boys) I've coached were all reluctant even to get near, let alone touch, each other's butts.

"I put my foot on his rear, and I pushed to "help him" get off the ball. He makes contact with the DL, and then falls instantly to the ground, screaming and grabbing his neck. 3 practices into my career...and I was certain it was over..."

Beer through my nose on that one (being Spring Break and all).

CoachD5085, that is some funny stuff.

Hmmm...wasn't really trying to be funny on that one. I could have broken the kids neck. Got lucky on that one.

The funny part for me, was the fact that "MR. Logic common sense and reason" kicked a kid in the butt. The fact that you were the one who did it is what caught me off guard.

That's funny right there.

We were opening up a new school and were haveing practices with just helmets and no shoulder pads during two-a-days. So I did what any offensive line coach would do I put the padded vests on (pushing the envelope) and did some 2 point explosion drills, you know put the hands in the chest make sure your head is down, tuck your knee under so you don't break a leg - the whole bit. Kid was taking the hit started moaning and writhing around on the ground....kind of a wuss so I gruffly told him to go see the trainer....kid came back to school the next day with a note from the doctor that explained that he could not play football for the rest of the year because he BRUISED HIS HEART! BRUISED HIS HEART! I thought for sure I was done with my career on that one.

One of the first things I learned about equipment back in the day was NEVER order #69.
Told to me by one of my favorite football mentors, among many other things that I am not allowed to put in this forum.

Coachorr, the funny part WAS that it was 5085 that wrote that.

Have lot of stories about coaches grabbing, touching, and saying stuff that they should not have.
Have only had 1 coach fired over the years for being a total $#@hole. Great guy off the field and even during practice, but game time he was totally insane. Long story.

OJW

In the North Bronx Youth Sports Ass'n that I coached in in 2007 (Co-op City Cowboys, Mighty Mites thru Pee-Wees; No. Bx. Rough Riders, 12U w no weight limit thru 18U), I kept thinking we did have a girl on the JrPWs because we had one boy with a pony tail and whose facial features seemed uncannily female to me. I kept referring to him as "she", and because nobody else made that mistake I must've been confusing to others. And then once I was corrected I kept glancing at him because I had trouble believing, which may have made him feel uncomfortable if he noticed; and even when I wrote this sentence the first time, I kept writing "her"!

In 2007 I coached with the Gun Hill YSA Rebels, and was told that the teams in the NBYSA would be on our schedule, and that they now do have a female player (Or was it two?). When the Rebel PWs found out, they wanted to know from me what would happen if they hurt her. I asked them, what if she hurts you? That shut them up. (I also told them I follow women's football, which is true.)

On the subject of staring inappropriately as related to football, I went to a road game of a varsity coach's I was corresponding with on Delphi's single wing forum (Pete Kopecky of Glen Cove HS). I found the home team's band leader (dressed as a hippie/flower child, because it was Floral Park HS, get it) very attractive and kept looking at her. I figured her to be faculty, because it's common for a school band leader to be faculty. I found out later she was a student who I guess just looked very mature. Whether she saw me looking I don't know, because dark glasses were part of her costume.

Not as bad as the time I kept staring at someone who looked to me (but to nobody else) amazingly like a certain person I associated with the place who'd died 2 yrs. earlier, but that's another story.

I too was surprised it was CoachD when I read it.. lol

is it illegal or just "not in good sense" for a coach to put on pads?

Just commonsense usually, but a coach putting on pads is just asking for trouble.
We've talked about this before though.
Some districts have it in writing-do this, get fired.

I am always on the lookout for coaches physically contacting guys now. I know, I know, I'm an old guy and I remember how it used to be. I remember how it used to be COACHING in the so called "Old days."

But that's now how it is anymore.
You put on pads and let anyone get as much as a sprained fingernail by you and it could cost you your job.
Hurt a kid while wearing gear, and it might cost you your house.

OJW

Yeah, I made that mistake as a part-timer (coach only). Now I'm a bit wiser and have a teaching career.

I am a youth coach. So, I have to constantly be on guard about other coaches or myself demonstrating anything a bit to enthusiastically. Only had one real problem with it. A big, strong coach at a different age level hit one of my players with a tackle dummy with way too much force. He claimed that he was toughening them up by demonstrating how the opposing team was going to treat them.
Earlier in the season this same guy had shoved one of my players into the ground head first while demonstrating how to play NG. I thought I had the issue straightened out the first time. But, obviously, I didn't. After I saw that second incident, I charged over there and made it very clear to him that he was never to come anywhere near one of my players ever again.

And, of course, just the opposite can happen. Anyone remember this thread?
coachhuey.proboards42.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=24969&page=1#227760

I still get a good laugh at some of us coaches that were trying to go that extra mile for our teams. I think we realized that we already had too many miles on us.