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Post by wingtol on Jul 3, 2012 16:23:51 GMT -6
"I know it's hot and summer but don't run your water trough at work outs. We are in a watering ban and have neighbors who will complain."
My response "We have parents who will sue when their kid dies."
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Post by eaglemountie on Jul 3, 2012 16:57:01 GMT -6
"We will never put power racks in our weight room, only machines so that all sports can benefit from using the weight room." "You can't win in football here, no one in the area cares about it." (AD is also the volleyball coach.)  |
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Post by mhs99 on Jul 3, 2012 17:25:36 GMT -6
My former AD (great guy) told me an AD in our league asked him during the indoor winter track season "When do they throw the javelin?"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2012 17:41:56 GMT -6
"You need to play a sophomore schedule."
Meanwhile we have 10 sophomores, 3 who will need to play A LOT on Friday nights...
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Post by op4shadow on Jul 3, 2012 18:44:58 GMT -6
coach, are summer workouts and conditioning REALLY needed??
after a 48-0 spanking (loss) AD invites himself into locker room, in the middle of our head coach speaking no less, and says "i want to thank you boys for a great showing tonight. good game guys!" complete with smile on his face...clearly unaware what actually happened.
coach, i cannot call the reconditioner for you...you will have to call them yourself. i don't know who we use! (previous coach had left, and the AD was the one who sent our stuff out!!!
he was asked to resign this past spring, don't think i've met an AD who had their head that far up their A$$! its one thing to not know sports and be an AD, its another thing to show no interest in sports.
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Post by CoachHess on Jul 4, 2012 12:34:04 GMT -6
In the middle of watching film on Saturday morning: "You need to get your priorities straight. Go run the youth league. Stop worrying about Friday nights, you're not going to win."
When two coaches stepped down for job reasons (lay coaches): "We don't need to hire outside. Just find someone with a heartbeat and make due"
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Post by fantom on Jul 4, 2012 12:48:24 GMT -6
This happened to a friend of mine. At orientation for 8th graders who would be incoming freshmen, during the spiel to recruit kids to play sports the AD said, "We have a lot of sports. The football team doesn't run things here. They think they do but they don't".
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Post by larrymoe on Jul 4, 2012 15:27:12 GMT -6
"How'd the JV game go Monday?"
Innocent enough I guess. Except when you know that the JV game had been cancelled two weeks prior to that because the other team had a lack of players.
This is the same woman who asked me the TUESDAY after our last game if we had won to get our 6th win and automatically qualify for the playoffs. We had, and she needed to turn forms into the state association that afternoon for us to be able to play in the first round.
I could go on and on, but I won't. We have the worst AD in the world. She may not be meddlesome or obstructionist, but she has NO clue what is going on in any of our sporting programs. She didn't even know we had changed softball coaches until two weeks after the new one was hired.
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Post by groundchuck on Jul 4, 2012 18:43:35 GMT -6
At a previous {censored} hole school they moved the goal post on my practice field OFF the field to the side so the nazi PE teacher could have her regulation soccer field for PE. When I said my field had priority he said "why do you guys need to practice kicking when you don't even score touchdowns."
(he's still the AD and last year they rescheduled a BBB and he forgot to tell the head BBB coach).
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Post by champ93 on Jul 4, 2012 20:03:38 GMT -6
"the fans want to see more excitement on the field"
"what does that mean?"
"passing"
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 4, 2012 21:55:15 GMT -6
Douche move, but why does your field have priority? I'm glad we can just use H-posts and it's compatible.
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Post by John Knight on Jul 6, 2012 17:41:14 GMT -6
"Nike says a replacement football jersey is 275 dollars week 3 of the season because they have already retooled for basketball season."
I swear this was said by our AD.
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Post by blb on Jul 6, 2012 17:54:58 GMT -6
"Nike says a replacement football jersey is 275 dollars week 3 of the season because they have already retooled for basketball season." I swear this was said by our AD. Actually john that's not all that far-fetched. Last Summer had a father of former player who died few years ago that wanted to buy jerseys with his number for cousins to wear last season and this in his memory. It was around $200 a piece for singles (Russell). |
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Post by fantom on Jul 6, 2012 18:22:50 GMT -6
Douche move, but why does your field have priority? I'm glad we can just use H-posts and it's compatible. Does a PE class really need a regulation soccer field? |
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 6, 2012 19:10:02 GMT -6
Nm. I thought it was the actual soccer team. Gym class? Seriously?
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Post by bluedevil4 on Jul 6, 2012 20:47:41 GMT -6
This was from our last AD, a real softy and push-over, who spent 100% of his job trying NOT to get sued:
Half-time of a game, players coming out for warmups:
AD: "Coach, go tell the head coach to tell little johnny to put his helmet on!"
Me: "He's hyperventilating and puking his guts out!" (this is happening right in front of the AD's face)
AD rolls his eyes and walks away. He felt the kid was setting a bad example with his mohawk hair-due. Not only that, but he was too much of a panzy to tell the kid or the HC himself (I was the new coach, which for him, meant messenger boy).
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Post by bluedevil4 on Jul 6, 2012 20:56:16 GMT -6
Same guy:
AD: "Coach, can you tell JV coach X to *ASK* the head coach if he's going to allow the homecoming court members out for the halftime show?"
The players never ended up going out. HC gets suspended for the next two practice days. HC resigns at end of the season after receiving notice that the AD would be firing him. EVERYONE except the parents of the homecoming kid loved this coach, and our program was really growing.
His rule of thumb: If a parent had a problem (which in this case they probably had a decent one) with a coach, that coach was disciplined or fired. A football coach's worst nightmare as an AD.
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 6, 2012 21:55:14 GMT -6
How exactly is a hairstyle a bad example?
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Post by bluedevil4 on Jul 6, 2012 22:12:42 GMT -6
I don't know. This guy found everything as poor form or being a bad example. During basketball season, he literally kicked out every single student who booed, or said/did any cheer that antagonizes the other team (including warm-up-the-bus, and singing goodbye). Only cheers supporting our team like (let's go __, or go __ go). Like I said, he was so focused on covering his a$$ from getting sued that he forgot to do his actual job. Really drove our entire athletics program into the ground. He stepped down about a year later once he realized everyone involved in our school's athletics wanted to form a lynch-mob and run him out. He without a doubt set our athletics program back a few years.
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Post by groundchuck on Jul 9, 2012 3:58:07 GMT -6
Douche move, but why does your field have priority? I'm glad we can just use H-posts and it's compatible. We had the "H" goal post. You would have to have coached at this place to understand. She needed like 10 more yards or something dumb like that. |
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Post by Chris Clement on Jul 9, 2012 7:18:00 GMT -6
Yes, because her field is 100 metres, which is 110 yards, which is why I don't have this hassle.
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Post by champ93 on Jul 9, 2012 9:21:47 GMT -6
"I don't know why all you football guys have all these coaches for different positions"
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Post by coachbrek on Jul 9, 2012 10:21:36 GMT -6
Former AD used to be our boys basketball coach, he resigned and went on the radio with our local radio sports director, saying the reason that he resigned was because he could not stand to lose, he never even let his own kids win in checkers when they were young and he thought we were a small duck on a large pond and could not compete and win games so he resigned because he could not stand to lose.
He then becomes the AD, parents are complaining because we are not competing and winning enough games. He calls an assembly and tells the parents that high school sports is all about participation and not about winning or losing.
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Post by coachbrek on Jul 9, 2012 10:38:15 GMT -6
Same AD back in 2008 we are are hosting a semi final playoff game in late Nov. the forcast is for snow and below zero temps. I call him and tell him I am going to line up some Propane radiant heaters for the sidelines. He e-mails me back and says it would not be fair if we did not have the heaters for both sidelines, I e-mailed him back and said it was already covered. He then e-mails me and says we don't need them, So I took the heaters and tanks back to the people who donated them.
Then the day of the game the field is snow covered and wind chills are well below zero he e-mails me and says maybe we should set up those heaters. I never replied.
The next year we have a home game that we need to win in order to make the playoffs we get a bunch of snow he would not clear the field he did not want to tear it up.
We lost.
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Post by mrjvi on Jul 9, 2012 11:14:48 GMT -6
My 2nd year we are trying hard to get as ready as possible against a powerhouse team on our homecoming. We hadn't won any games the previous year. My AD said that I had to cut my practices all week short so our kids can coach the cheerleaders in powder puff football. I think she is joking but she wasn't. I told her I'm trying to make some positive headway in the program and we can't afford 1 hour practices all week. She says you guys are fine and it won't make a difference. We got KILLED 55-0. 2 weeks later she asks me why we don't seem to have a great rapport anymore..........
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Post by op4shadow on Jul 9, 2012 21:09:55 GMT -6
My 2nd year we are trying hard to get as ready as possible against a powerhouse team on our homecoming. We hadn't won any games the previous year. My AD said that I had to cut my practices all week short so our kids can coach the cheerleaders in powder puff football. I think she is joking but she wasn't. I told her I'm trying to make some positive headway in the program and we can't afford 1 hour practices all week. She says you guys are fine and it won't make a difference. We got KILLED 55-0. 2 weeks later she asks me why we don't seem to have a great rapport anymore.......... stuff like this makes me worried about becoming a head coach. i would've gotten myself fired...no way in hell even under direct orders from my a.d. do i cut my practices short for powder puff. i coach varsity football, not powder puff. my kids play varsity football, and are not coaches. PERIOD. don't like it...FIRE ME. that's just me though. and that's no offense to you coach, just saying that i wouldn't have the moxy to even work around this AD's rediculous demand. |
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Post by mrjvi on Jul 10, 2012 6:32:25 GMT -6
I was very young and some people didn't think I could handle being a head coach. I've now coached 30 years. The message came through to everyone else but her. Pick your battles. I had to "sacrifice" for her to leave me alone the next 8 years she was there. Picked my battle and it ended up working out OK. I think my reputation now would prevent anyone considering even suggesting anything like that. When you become a head coach, you will probably have to "pick your battles" at times.
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Post by larrymoe on Jul 10, 2012 9:21:48 GMT -6
My 2nd year we are trying hard to get as ready as possible against a powerhouse team on our homecoming. We hadn't won any games the previous year. My AD said that I had to cut my practices all week short so our kids can coach the cheerleaders in powder puff football. I think she is joking but she wasn't. I told her I'm trying to make some positive headway in the program and we can't afford 1 hour practices all week. She says you guys are fine and it won't make a difference. We got KILLED 55-0. 2 weeks later she asks me why we don't seem to have a great rapport anymore.......... If your school doesn't have Powder Puff football, under NO CIRCUMSTANCES allow it to take root. It was one of the biggest headaches at my previous job. We don't have it at my new place, nor will we ever hopefully. |
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Post by hsrose on Jul 10, 2012 10:07:25 GMT -6
PowderPuff – this was a spring event at my last school, it was done at the end of our spring practice. We always had a BBQ for the (non-contact, helmets only) spring game/competition, had the parents, etc. The football team had the Meat Bowl, where the winning squad got steaks at the BBQ, everyone else got hot dogs and hamburgers. Since it wasn’t contact the to-be Sr. captains chose squads and we ran a round-robin competition. Not much more than an elevated 7-7 but it generated a lot of excitement, the players had fun, coaches got to relax a bit.
The PowderPuff competition was based on classes, Sr-So, Jr-Fr, and then a championship. The outgoing Sr. players coached the girls teams, not active players. It expanded the BBQ quite a bit, more parents, more boyfriends, more teachers and admin, it wasn’t a bad thing at all. I think doing it during the football season would interfere with the practices and such so in that case it would be a negative thing. But the way it was done there seemed to work pretty well.
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Post by larrymoe on Jul 10, 2012 10:19:42 GMT -6
My prior school had more fights both during school hours and after school hours (and I don't mean arguing, I mean punching brawls) about Powder Puff than any other issue at the school over the three years I was there.
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