Ever had a parent charge the field on you?

When I was in 8th grade, I hit a kid pretty hard pretty significantly late. His dad ran damn near onto the field yelling at the ref to throw me out. I was getting ready to hit the dad if he got much closer.

That event also marked the final instance of me being ejected from organized sports (basketball, volleyball, baseball, wrestling, and finally football). Good times.

That parent would not be attending the next game. I can gurantee you that. If she did her son would not play in the game at all. Wether you win or lose, you will always have 3 to 4 parents hate you because its not about the team its about their son.

Coaching 9th grade years ago we were getting hammered 42-0 at halftime. I could tell the kids were scared of the other team. They were just bigger and better than we were. Late in the game the other team had their 4th stringers in and probably some kids out of the stands and we put together a drive. We got inside their 20 with about 12 seconds to go and after a Rocket sweep, where I told the kid to get out of bounds if he couldn't score, did not call time out and let the clock run out.

I had a dad come up to me on my way to the bus and say how I couldn't coach, why didn't I let the kids have some success, and why couldn't we have scored to make it more "competitive". I said absolutely nothing too him.

I just couldn't believe it. That was the one and only time I have ever had a parent say anything too me after a game, and I've been doing this 21 years. So, I guess I have been lucky.

Not to hijack or anything, but how in the hel! do you get ejected from volleyball???

"In our game tonight (18-0 loss)" you're already 40 points better off than I am.

DC, this was high school football?

What would be interesting is if us as coaches.... As the game starts we run to the stands and start saying how bad of a parent they were and how many practices their son missed and how scared theirs sons are to play against the opponents!!!!! That would be the best to put them in shock and maybe they go home... Lol

This is a not as bad as your situation but it still bugged me.
This is my first season as the OC of a small school that has not had real football success in about 20 years.
In our first 3 games we are 1-2, but our offensive production, both in points and yardage are almost double what they were at this point last year.
one of my starting Oline's dad came up to me at a parent teacher conference and said "This shotgun offense just ain't working" i asked what he meant. he said "You cant effectively run the ball if you aren't under center." I told him thanks for the input and then went on with my day.

The next day at practice as we are starting the Team Offense period, I call the first play on the script and i hear that guy's son say, "we need to be under center".

I lost it. after about a 5 minute rant on the subject, i regained my composure and we had a pretty good practice.
i guess everybody in the stands thinks they know more than the coaches.

i just hope that guy doesn't come on the sidelines tonight. lol..

Had it happen to me at the JV level. We were in a very tight game and a player did not get in the game, he showed little work ethic and was not physically or mentally mature enough to play the game even though he was a jr. His father started yelling at me by half time saying he'd driven 200 miles to see the game (it was a home game for us though) and there would be hell to pay and that my a** was grass if he didn't. The game ended the kid went running to his father crying during the post - game process. The father walked up to me and bumped me with his chest and started cursing and telling me off while reeking of booze in front of the other members of our staff and my father who had come from the stands to talk. He was escorted away from me but threatened to get me later. As I was leaving the coaches' office for home he was waiting for me and got out of his car and got at it again, luckily our OL coach, an assistant wrestling coach and his wife were there and helped calm the situation down. The father was no allowed to games the rest of the year. I understand parents want to see their child play but they are sending the message it is okay to blame others if you don't get what you want. They also send the message it is okay to be a bully and use violence or the threat of it to get what you want.

Yep...this is something all new coaches must eventually figure out.

We had a parent complain about us needing his son to be playing more on defense...a defense that didn't get scored on that year...


As for the OP, I've had them charge the practice field several times, but not the game field. It's usually over discipline conditioning, despite the brief annual player/parent contract that they must sign that outlines this possibility.

Just two weeks ago I had a parent get in my face after a jamboree about our snapping...his kids both play WR and DB, by the way. He goes off into a rant about terrible coaching, which I'm sure comes from the fact that his sons don't step on the field very often, one not at all. Keep in mind, his kids refuse to come to summer workouts and actually try to improve their skills. I'm sure that daddy is at home teaching them how to do it with his plethora of coaching expertise, but I digress. Bottom line, he's been waiting to find something to complain about for two years and that was the best he could find.

Happened to a close friend of mine who was HC at the time..... little "Vito" got puled out of the game after blowing multiple assignments and jumping offsides twice. his father, a heavily "respected" man (In North Jersey, that has a very specific meaning) proceeds to walk onto the sideline, security guards dont say a word. he strolls quietly right up in my friends face..... literally inches...... and begins to talk quietly to him. he turns around and returns to the stands. two plays later, Vito is back in the game and stays there. they lose the game 42-7, and when i asked my friend what the dad had said to him, he told me "he made me an offer i couldnt refuse" and we both started laughing. basically, the guy told my friend that he knew where he lived and it would be a shame if anything happened to him by "accident", and maybe he could reconsider Vito being pulled from the game. my buddy put his priorities in order and let the kid play. he also handed in his resignation the very next day. trust me... this is a true story.

good point! hahahaha

I was a young coach and was the LB coach. We had a kid who was playing MLB dislocated his shoulder the first week of camp.

I tried to tell the kid during his rehab that he needed to work on his conditioning, he didn't.

When he came back he thought he would just step back in at mike, he was in pizz poor shape, and kept blowing reads.

During drills (we ran a 43) I noticed that he kept misstepping left (he was left handed). He did great on plays to his left, but was late on plays to his right. He was pretty decent, so I went from playing a SLB, MLB, WLB to playing LLB, MLB, RLB. So this kid ends up playing RLB so that everything is to his left. He is doing well.

A couple of games later, his brother who was called 'Whumba' approaches me after a win. I had been warned that Whumba was talking chit about me. He comes up and introduces hinself to me and proceeds to tell me that I had 'ruined his brother' and postures himself over me.

Well I was more than ready to go fisticuffs with this dude who goes about 450 on a good day, because not only was I a hot head back in the day but also figured I could pull the 'ol rope a dope' on this fat guy. Luckily there was the DL coach around to corral me and get me out of the way.

The kid was pretty embarrassed by his brother's actions.

They throw the first punch, you hand them their ass on a plate, resign, then attempt to find a school that will take on a coach who will smack the shizzle out of parents who want to roll because lil Jimmy ONLY went offside 3 times in that half.