Post by captainpp on Aug 15, 2009 13:03:18 GMT -6
Well I just got done with a pretty long post on this subject only to lose it because I ran out of time on this site... Must of been the Almighty cause there were a few rants involved...
Simply does your home field play the National Anthem .. I'm not sure about this year because I'm new here at this level... In the past I took my team's to different places that didn't and I'm pi$$ed about it... Is this one of those things where we will offend some other group or something,you know like saying a little blessing before or after a contest kind of thing... There always seems to be enough time at H/S games for this... OH!! I see just another way to short change are youth football players..
Let's not set the table by doing things correctly... Let them know that it's all right too short cut things just so long it pacifies them in the end... Kinda like how other people that get paid to run the show and on game day throw out the chains and field markers only to leave a message with the P.A. guy to tell the coaches to make sure the field is picked up and to have everything at the garage door as he heads out the gate on his way to the tavern... Personal sorry ... But since I'm at it why don't I just come face to face with it Not all, but many that I met and I' speaking about the admin and ref's in youth play care only about the pay check and the time it takes to make it... Don't try to sell me that it's not so because it is ....... If it wasn't then they would change out when the quarter ran out instead of having games played by half's... Plus this short clock and or running clock cr@p stinks ... Where is everyone going in such a hurry Are we doing this to pacify a ref or some other or is this for the kids... They paid the price all week give them there due... They want to play in front of there folks and we as coaches are having a hard time giving kids playing time at different times.. WHAT THE HECK ... Like Dave C. mentioned in the post Clock, at times he's able to grid a clock to almost half time or something like that ... This also happen with us a few years back... A better than good D/W team went 3 yards 4 yards 3 yards the whole length of the field.. I swear that the coach yelled at his team if they gained more than 5 on a carry... We first scored on the 4 th play of the game only to see the ball for a few seconds in the second half because by accident there kicker missed the ball on a kick-off and it turned into a on-side which they recovered in the first half... Wasn't worth the gas that it took to get to this out of area place except they were a good group...
Well enough of this chit... At least I learned something from this rant... All to well I learned what my Marine Corps Brother's and other Warrior's in the Armed Forces meant by the saying of Getting
Wasted for Your County
I should have mentioned earlier this came to be a few years back and I never did anything about it and I'm dumping it out on you guy's and I'm sorry, truly I am
Had my team at a well to do club team complex... They had all their junk music going and just the full get out stuff... Finally I had my guy's with their hats off on the side line getting ready to honor are great county... Finally the side judge says come on coach get your receiving team out there I asked how about the anthem he just Say's guess their not doing it running past start up time or something .. Find out later they had a CD thing but it had scratches oh OK I could understand that only to find out by another it been running on 4 weeks now... Have money for all the other crap but not to have a National Anthem one and a back up just in case HORSE APPLES...
Simply does your home field play the National Anthem .. I'm not sure about this year because I'm new here at this level... In the past I took my team's to different places that didn't and I'm pi$$ed about it... Is this one of those things where we will offend some other group or something,you know like saying a little blessing before or after a contest kind of thing... There always seems to be enough time at H/S games for this... OH!! I see just another way to short change are youth football players..
Let's not set the table by doing things correctly... Let them know that it's all right too short cut things just so long it pacifies them in the end... Kinda like how other people that get paid to run the show and on game day throw out the chains and field markers only to leave a message with the P.A. guy to tell the coaches to make sure the field is picked up and to have everything at the garage door as he heads out the gate on his way to the tavern... Personal sorry ... But since I'm at it why don't I just come face to face with it Not all, but many that I met and I' speaking about the admin and ref's in youth play care only about the pay check and the time it takes to make it... Don't try to sell me that it's not so because it is ....... If it wasn't then they would change out when the quarter ran out instead of having games played by half's... Plus this short clock and or running clock cr@p stinks ... Where is everyone going in such a hurry Are we doing this to pacify a ref or some other or is this for the kids... They paid the price all week give them there due... They want to play in front of there folks and we as coaches are having a hard time giving kids playing time at different times.. WHAT THE HECK ... Like Dave C. mentioned in the post Clock, at times he's able to grid a clock to almost half time or something like that ... This also happen with us a few years back... A better than good D/W team went 3 yards 4 yards 3 yards the whole length of the field.. I swear that the coach yelled at his team if they gained more than 5 on a carry... We first scored on the 4 th play of the game only to see the ball for a few seconds in the second half because by accident there kicker missed the ball on a kick-off and it turned into a on-side which they recovered in the first half... Wasn't worth the gas that it took to get to this out of area place except they were a good group...
Well enough of this chit... At least I learned something from this rant... All to well I learned what my Marine Corps Brother's and other Warrior's in the Armed Forces meant by the saying of Getting
Wasted for Your County
I should have mentioned earlier this came to be a few years back and I never did anything about it and I'm dumping it out on you guy's and I'm sorry, truly I am
Had my team at a well to do club team complex... They had all their junk music going and just the full get out stuff... Finally I had my guy's with their hats off on the side line getting ready to honor are great county... Finally the side judge says come on coach get your receiving team out there I asked how about the anthem he just Say's guess their not doing it running past start up time or something .. Find out later they had a CD thing but it had scratches oh OK I could understand that only to find out by another it been running on 4 weeks now... Have money for all the other crap but not to have a National Anthem one and a back up just in case HORSE APPLES...