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Post by husky44 on Jul 24, 2013 17:53:35 GMT -6
Coaches,
I keep getting hassled by our cheer team coach to have our kids wear pink on cancer awareness week. I was able to avoid the distraction last year because I got the pressure a week before. They want the football program to buy each kid something pink. I really do not want any additional work/distraction but also don't want to irritate the public. How do you all handle this?
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Post by mahonz on Jul 24, 2013 18:03:00 GMT -6
Pink athletic tape around the left shoe. Simple...fast...cheap...everyone is happy and they all match.
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Post by spos21ram on Jul 24, 2013 18:15:21 GMT -6
We allow kids to wear pink the whole month. I'd say around 75% of the kids wear some sort of pink. Never been a distraction with us.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2013 18:38:33 GMT -6
Coaches, I keep getting hassled by our cheer team coach to have our kids wear pink on cancer awareness week. I was able to avoid the distraction last year because I got the pressure a week before. They want the football program to buy each kid something pink. I really do not want any additional work/distraction but also don't want to irritate the public. How do you all handle this? Just let the kids know that for that month they can wear pink. don't have to mandate or make it an issue. |
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Post by fantom on Jul 24, 2013 18:45:56 GMT -6
Coaches, I keep getting hassled by our cheer team coach to have our kids wear pink on cancer awareness week. I was able to avoid the distraction last year because I got the pressure a week before. They want the football program to buy each kid something pink. I really do not want any additional work/distraction but also don't want to irritate the public. How do you all handle this? If you buy them something and make it clear that that's the only pink stuff that they can wear you can keep everybody happy without looking like the circus came to town. |
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Post by jg78 on Jul 24, 2013 19:11:21 GMT -6
Coaches, I keep getting hassled by our cheer team coach to have our kids wear pink on cancer awareness week. I was able to avoid the distraction last year because I got the pressure a week before. They want the football program to buy each kid something pink. I really do not want any additional work/distraction but also don't want to irritate the public. How do you all handle this? If you buy them something and make it clear that that's the only pink stuff that they can wear you can keep everybody happy without looking like the circus came to town. If you're going to allow it, this is the way to do it. Otherwise, you will have someone (who really just wants to be draw attention to himself rather than the cause) who ends up looking like a bottle of Pepto Bismol. Personally, I don't really like it. But it's one of those situations where you have to pick your battles and fighting it may not be worth it if your school makes a big deal out of things like that. So maybe get something simple (socks maybe) that they can wear and be done with it. |
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Post by fantom on Jul 24, 2013 19:15:46 GMT -6
If you buy them something and make it clear that that's the only pink stuff that they can wear you can keep everybody happy without looking like the circus came to town. If you're going to allow it, this is the way to do it. Otherwise, you will have someone (who really just wants to be draw attention to himself rather than the cause) who ends up looking like a bottle of Pepto Bismol. Personally, I don't really like it. But it's one of those situations where you have to pick your battles and fighting it may not be worth it if your school makes a big deal out of things like that. So maybe get something simple (socks maybe) that they can wear and be done with it. I don't necessarily agree that it's all about drawing attention to themselves. Sure, there's a lot of that but every year we hear from some kids who feel very strongly about it because people who they love have suffered from breast cancer. |
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Post by coachbozwhs on Jul 24, 2013 19:18:18 GMT -6
Coaches, I keep getting hassled by our cheer team coach to have our kids wear pink on cancer awareness week. I was able to avoid the distraction last year because I got the pressure a week before. They want the football program to buy each kid something pink. I really do not want any additional work/distraction but also don't want to irritate the public. How do you all handle this? If you buy them something and make it clear that that's the only pink stuff that they can wear you can keep everybody happy without looking like the circus came to town. Last season our QB missed his Sr. yr due to cancer (he has been cleared to play now and has signed w/a DII team), in addition one of our assistants passed away due to cancer on Friday night during our bye week (his son a two-way starter on the team). As a result of all our associated involvement with the issue within our community we let them wear almost anything within reason., but in the end I prefer fantom's "no circus" approach. |
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Post by jg78 on Jul 24, 2013 19:20:00 GMT -6
If you're going to allow it, this is the way to do it. Otherwise, you will have someone (who really just wants to be draw attention to himself rather than the cause) who ends up looking like a bottle of Pepto Bismol. Personally, I don't really like it. But it's one of those situations where you have to pick your battles and fighting it may not be worth it if your school makes a big deal out of things like that. So maybe get something simple (socks maybe) that they can wear and be done with it. I don't necessarily agree that it's all about drawing attention to themselves. Sure, there's a lot of that but every year we hear from some kids who feel very strongly about it because people who they love have suffered from breast cancer. I am not talking about the players in general, just the one or two you sometimes have who tend to take things too far. You need to set limits so those guys don't go crazy with it. |
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Post by fantom on Jul 24, 2013 19:25:33 GMT -6
I don't necessarily agree that it's all about drawing attention to themselves. Sure, there's a lot of that but every year we hear from some kids who feel very strongly about it because people who they love have suffered from breast cancer. I am not talking about the players in general, just the one or two you sometimes have who tend to take things too far. You need to set limits so those guys don't go crazy with it. Oh, absolutely. This year we're doing pink mouthpieces and a pink ribbon sticker. They've already been bought. |
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Post by senatorblutarsky on Jul 24, 2013 19:33:59 GMT -6
We've done Pink socks in the past. We wear them for one game. New school last year... when we handed out socks, some of them wanted to wear them all year. Since we lost that game (ended up 8-1 regular season), they were not brought up again.
We will do something again- as a team (socks again... maybe decals, since we have plain helmets... I like the mouthpiece idea too).
Every year we have done it, our team receives a few nice notes from cancer survivors or friends/family of cancer patients.
Seriously, (not that I am arguing with anyone here... just making a general statement) if all we do is try to win football games, we haven't scratched the surface of what we could be doing.
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Post by silkyice on Jul 24, 2013 20:04:43 GMT -6
I am all for breast cancer awareness, but in my opinion, most boys only want to do this because they see someone on tv wear it. They want to be cool.
Two years ago I let them wear pink with no guideline. My mistake. We had pink all over the place and looked awful. We wore pink all October which is just about half the season. There are at least 4 Fridays and sometimes 5. Some of the players painted their cleats pink with magic marker, so it really went into Nov. as well.
Last year I told the team that we could wear a pink wristband on the left arm only on the first Friday in October and we even bought the wristband for them. They were upset, but I didnt care and they got over it in about 2 minutes. Lol. Turns out that none of them wore it that game.
I did tell them that if they could raise $1000 for breast cancer that we could do more. Not a dime was raised and we really have great kids who volunteer for stuff all the time.
But this pink is not about breast cancer now, it is about being cool. I know that it does raise awareness. But there are a million different causes that need supporting, but they don't really relate to us playing football.
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Post by lions23 on Jul 24, 2013 20:26:48 GMT -6
We had some of the same problems with kids taking things too far. We have a new response now standard for cheer coaches or anyone who wants us to be a part of the cause. We will do anything we can to help that does not involve our kids or our team spending money. We will loan you are kids on Saturday for a car wash. We show up at your event. We will give you our time or muscle but we are not spending money. If you want us to where a ribbon or a color we will do it if you buy it. For instance we told our cheer coach we would wear a a ribbon decal on our helmet if they bought it and told the same to another organization. The cheer coach got upset at first but our response was dont your girls all go to competitions in specified uniforms ribbons and makeup? Yes. Then you understand we want everyone looking the same. Next we said we don't have any extra program money which was true. No issue and we didn't have to worry about some kid showing up in pink socks another in pink sleeves and another with pink shoe strings.
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Post by dubber on Jul 24, 2013 20:29:21 GMT -6
No one has brought up the really important questions........like, how hot is the cheer coach?
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Post by mariner42 on Jul 24, 2013 20:31:20 GMT -6
Coaches, I keep getting hassled by our cheer team coach to have our kids wear pink on cancer awareness week. I was able to avoid the distraction last year because I got the pressure a week before. They want the football program to buy each kid something pink. I really do not want any additional work/distraction but also don't want to irritate the public. How do you all handle this? If you buy them something and make it clear that that's the only pink stuff that they can wear you can keep everybody happy without looking like the circus came to town. This is how we handled it last year and I really believe it's the best way. I also think that limiting it to one week in particular can be argued for making it more meaningful. Choose a specific home game during the month (hopefully you have one), have the activities director/cheer coach/whoever do something at halftime if you want to go big, donate some of the gate to go really big, but then once it's done, it's done. I say this as someone who never got to meet his grandmother because she died from breast cancer before I was born: I'm a huge proponent of BC awareness, but I think its invasion onto the football field is more than a little bit ridiculous. |
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Post by coachd5085 on Jul 24, 2013 20:53:12 GMT -6
YOu can always paint the field with pink... that way the team and program are supporting it without worrying about players going nuts. Just put a ribbon on the 35's or accent some things in pink
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Post by coachbdud on Jul 24, 2013 22:11:38 GMT -6
we say do what you want
we had a team mom dealing with cancer (not breast) issues
almost every kid sports pink socks or tape
a few go crazy and get pink gloves, mouthpiece, towel, everything
if refs don't mind it, i dont
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Post by sdfbcoach on Jul 26, 2013 11:18:47 GMT -6
Pink spats. Some kids had clothes that were pink. Other than that nothing else. Our district has told athletic teams in the past that they couldn't do anything special for this, i.e. our girls bball team fundraised for pink jerseys and were told they couldnt wear them.
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Post by 33coach on Jul 26, 2013 14:41:32 GMT -6
No one has brought up the really important questions........like, how hot is the cheer coach? Awesome Sent from my ADR6410LVW using proboards |
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Post by coach2013 on Jul 27, 2013 15:50:47 GMT -6
Coaches, I keep getting hassled by our cheer team coach to have our kids wear pink on cancer awareness week. I was able to avoid the distraction last year because I got the pressure a week before. They want the football program to buy each kid something pink. I really do not want any additional work/distraction but also don't want to irritate the public. How do you all handle this? WE do one month of cancer awareness, after that, if u show up in pink you dont play. |
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Post by tog on Jul 27, 2013 16:04:04 GMT -6
I would prefer that our program pledge to send any money that would normally be spent on "awareness of the individual" as a negative and "awareness of cancer", a positive, to just be donated straight to cancer research instead.
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Post by brophy on Jul 27, 2013 16:09:15 GMT -6
If you buy them something and make it clear that that's the only pink stuff that they can wear you can keep everybody happy without looking like the circus came to town. I also think that limiting it to one week in particular can be argued for making it more meaningful. I think its invasion onto the football field is more than a little bit ridiculous. This, this and this..... Letting the kids accessorize themselves is a recipe for disaster. We had kids come out like pink mummies at pre-game before we had to have them strip half of it off (then deal with their attitudes after that). ** I think i posted a picture of one of the players a few years ago on here Personally, I think the awareness month a charade in itself and has become its own spectacle that doesn't have much to do with the game of football. |
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Post by dacoachmo on Jul 27, 2013 16:25:16 GMT -6
We collected money during the game. A parent (a cancer survivor) supplied the team with pink socks
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Post by coachphillip on Jul 27, 2013 16:55:17 GMT -6
Pink ribbons on the field for one home game with a portion of snack bar proceeds going to charity. It should be about coming together to help people, not highlighting your individual gear because Adrian Peterson wears it too. I know this isn't the case with every kid, but the kids who actually do it out of support or remembrance are the exception rather than the rule. If they really cared, they would prefer cancer research receiving a couple hundred bucks over wearing a purple towel for a month.
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Post by tgun25 on Jul 28, 2013 8:33:38 GMT -6
We had players last year who were routinely late for pre-game drills because they were putting on so much pink. Pink socks, pink spats, pink towels, pink arm sleeves...it got silly really quick. And, they really only did it because they wanted to draw attention to themselves. I also thought it was ridiculous because there were only about six guys who looked like this and the rest of the team didn't. IMO, pick one game, pick one pink item that the whole team will wear and then move on and be done.
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