Craziest/scariest/funniest coaching stories.

pirate1590
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Craziest/scariest/funniest coaching stories. Oct 1, 2013 23:14:58 GMT -6

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Post by pirate1590 on Oct 1, 2013 23:14:58 GMT -6

I was reading some stories about some parent and coaching horror stories. I got to thinking about some funny stories I have from coaching.

The funniest-

1. My first year coaching my oldest son( who was 11 at the time) we a kid on our team, Jimmy. Jimmy was a 5'4 120 pound kid you would look at and say "man that is a football player" but had two left feet, was terrified of contact and was probably the slowest person I have ever seen, he ran a 6.5 second 20 yard dash. He alternated in at DT..tried to play him on offense as our backup center..he couldn't handle the contact. Probably the worst football player I have ever seen, coming from a guy who tries to play everyone as much as he can and takes pride in his weaker players succeeding. Anyways its March and the players are signing up. His mother calls me and tells me Jimmy will not be playing for our org in the fall. I ask where he is playing she replies another local org because "Im sending him to a camp to teach him to play QB so he doesn't get hit". I have to do everything to not laugh out loud over the phone. His parents were nice folks, but didn't know ANYTHING about football.

2. Last year on the 11-12 year old team we were giving our character building session that we do every week. We talked about the value of friendship and what it meant to be a friend. Our fullback/LB that year was a kid named Jack Dawson(yes that was his real name, and he was a great player kid, 2 way starter for us). He raises his hand and talks for a little bit, and says at the end of his comment verbatim "you have to make each day count and do your best because you never know the impact you can have on someone". Great thoughts but all the parents who were listening started laughing and groaning at the irony of the kids comments. His mother calls me the next day and says he was upset because he thought the parents were making fun of him! we had a good laugh after that one!

Craziest

1.This happened last year too. The other B team coach was a real piece of work. Last year he screamed at one of our team moms during jersey handout because his son didn't get the jersey # he wanted. He screamed at her saying "a number represents who he is , it his identity and you stole it!" Her husband got involved and before anything happened he quit albeit some histrionics. Later that year he scrimmages the A teams backups and rubs it in my face after practice. He called us wimps for not scrimmaging them saying that they played them well and they would kick out butts in a few weeks . Mind you his team was 1-3 when this happened and we were 3-1. I told our players about that and they got mad and I told them the week before the game that this game was the only game I would let them run the score up. We wound up beating them 62-12. After the game this guy has the nerve to berate his players for not trying..than comes over to our sideline cussing up a storm at me and tells me to fight him. I tell him if he lays a hand on any of us he is getting his butt sued and never coaching again. My assistant tries to step in to break it up and he shoves him to the ground. Hell breaks out and 2 players dads on our team tackle him to the ground and hold him down in front of all the players. I got a warning from the commissioner for running the score up but the parents sided with me (see what good relations do for you!) and he got kicked out of the league and went to another league to coach his kid. some of our players went to school with his kid, apparently his kid was a real nice kid who is really well liked. He hates his dad for pressuring him with football and that whole incident really embarrassed him, which I hate it for. The other parents who know his dad concur that he is a blowhard to the nth degree.

2. This happened this year on the 6th and 7th B Team. The HC's son was the quarterback on the team. His son was terrified of contact, and in the first game of the year fumbled seven snaps from center. The assistant coach after the game puts the backup QB in as the starter, causing the HC to resign and pull his kid off the team. HUGE controversy in our program this year.

jrk5150
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Craziest/scariest/funniest coaching stories. Oct 2, 2013 10:12:53 GMT -6

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Post by jrk5150 on Oct 2, 2013 10:12:53 GMT -6

Funny story, and coincidentally we were just talking about this situation last night -

7 year old on our mitey mite team, which is 7, 8's and first year 9's. Was a pure MPP from every perspective - would not hit, would move away from someone trying to hit him, small, scared, never made it through a hitting drill in practice without leaving the drill crying, etc. and so forth. Not that uncommon for 7's in general, but this kid had it to the nth degree. Last game of the year, we put him out on kickoff receive in a spot where he shouldn't get the ball. Kick goes right to him. He bends over, picks it up, and stands up. He sees all 11 kids on the kickoff team running at him, screams (7 years old, so more of a squeal), throws the ball with both hands over his head behind him, drops to the ground and curls up in a fetal position. I am standing 10 feet away from him, jaw down around my waist, can't believe what I'm seeing. Had never seen that before, have never seen that since. Side note - he kept coming back and playing, we had him for 5 years as we moved up the same year he did. He finally, as an older lighter 11 year old, managed to make it through all of our hitting drills. He was crying, but he made it through them. Even showed up on our highlight reel knocking a kid down with a block. Might have been the only time in 5 years he actually hit someone, and even then it was almost a blind-side block from the side against a kid that wasn't looking at him. He stopped playing after doing a year at the Pee Wee level after he left us. Pretty much quit before it turned into real football (from a physicality point of view, with 7th and 8th graders that have gone through puberty, etc.) at the Jr. Midget level.

Scary story - the HC I work with (9th year with him) used to take kids in our one on one hitting drills and THROW them into the other kid. Again, we had 7-8's the first 3 years, and many had never played/were very tentative. We'd do the tackling drill where you run parallel and cut up through one of the holes laid out with bags, so you were at an angle or only head on for a yard. He'd take kids that wouldn't hit, and as they went through the drill, he'd grab them and push/throw them into the ball carrier. He was just trying to show them that contact wasn't anything to be afraid of. I spoke to him about it my first year coaching with him and got him to stop. Weird thing about it - parents just laughed, kids laughed, and USUALLY the kids ended up hitting better after he did it. Heck, he did it with my son that first year when I wasn't coaching, and I laughed too. But man, what a WRONG thing to do...SO lucky no kid ever got hurt.

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pirate1590
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Craziest/scariest/funniest coaching stories. Oct 2, 2013 14:40:44 GMT -6

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Post by pirate1590 on Oct 2, 2013 14:40:44 GMT -6

That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen haha.

That first story reminds me of when I was in middle school ball in the early 80s and we were playing against another 7th grade team. We were supposed to pooch kick it but the kicker didn't hit the ball right and it went right to a kid standing 10 yards in front of the kicker. He takes the ball and starts sprinting back towards his own end. Our team stopped chasing him and he actually broke two tackles of his own guys before the kick returner tackled him on their 20 yard line. Same type of thing, all of our players were laughing at it.

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Craziest/scariest/funniest coaching stories. Oct 2, 2013 14:46:59 GMT -6

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Post by jrk5150 on Oct 2, 2013 14:46:59 GMT -6

Oct 2, 2013 14:40:44 GMT -6 pirate1590 said:

That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen haha.

Yeah, that's part of what I told him, pretty much said if a kid gets hurt, you're done, there goes your house, etc. He just wasn't thinking about any of that, he was purely trying to figure out how to get kids over their fear of contact. Not sure THROWING them at each other was the right way to do that regardless of any of the other consequences, LOL.

It was pretty funny, I recall a practice where we're running the drill, and he starts to grab a kid, then looks at me, and let's him go.