what is the sorriest thing you have heard

obviously, kicking someone's ass is not a very viable answer

doesn't mean that they don't need it though

Oh, just thought of another one...Its lame for a head coach not to support his assistants in their career goals complaining about "loyalty concerns"...a HC should do everything in his power to promote and defend his assistants.... giving false/poor reviews in references is pretty bad...real bad....again, arse whuppin? no, but step down and let a leader take over, yes.

ooooooooooooooooh, heres a good one. This happened to me once...a youth coach didnt like me because i wouldnt baby his superduper star son so basically he told a bunch of kids not to play for me because i would do this that and the other thing, lose every game etc etc....course it all got back to me. that was pretty lame. that guys not coaching any more and of course his own kids are a complete mess. I feel bad for the kids.

Middle school coach's response to getting a bad end of year evaluation because he wouldn't run the program's systems.

"If I knew I was going to be judged on that I would have done it"

All of mine aren't real serious (though I'm sure a lot of stupid stuff happened that I forgot or ignored)... one of the best was in an overtime game (first year at a school that had never played overtime)- we scored first- missed the PAT, their series went: no gain, loss of 8, inc... so 4th and goal at the 18, an assistant (good guy/great coach... just a little confused) came up to me and screamed "What if they kick a field goal?!" I almost called time-out... when I thought about it a bit, turned to him and said "then we win by 3".

Anyway, we got a sack and won 20-14.

I had a player break his leg the 5th game of the season. In January an assistant coach who wanted my job told this player's dad that the reason he broke his leg was because I called a trap play instead of the play he suggested. HE said if he were the head coach he would not have called this play and his son would be out of the basketball court right now. This has to be the sorriest thing I have ever heard.

Dang Togster, you expecting a revolution this season lol! Pissed off coaches talking offensive trash in the office and sorry comments from the sidelines and stands. Saturday morning quarterbacks! Asses getting kicked lol! Don't worry buddy we're with you! You da man! But if you'd have just called the play I told you about we'd have won, and johnny would still have the use of both legs and billy would have gotten his scholarship and jimmy wouldn't have gotten his girlfriend pregnant and our team wouldn't suck! Down with the lying scoundrels, power to the proleteriat! My post could be the sorriest thing you ever heard! Let's kick some ass!!!!!

He knew he was just wouldn't do it. I was not the HC of that program but at the coaches meeting we had pre-season everything was made very clear. The guy had been around a while at the Middle school & won a lot of games at that level. He didn't see the big picture of a total program.

I was a newbie coach. About 1/3 thru the season I noticed the HC not wearing headsets and none of our coaches in the box. I asked him why. He said, "Look around, who is going to tell me what to do." That explained a lot real quickly.

Saw something similar. I quit my last job as a DC when the new HC called a meeting at which he passed out our new defensive playbooks. It was obvious that they were from his old school because he didn't even change the team name. I'm no prima donna but the guy never even discussed it with me. Just plopped our new defensive playbook on each of our desks.
I joined a new staff and my first impression was confirmed. While scouting my old team I noticed that, although they had coaches in the box, nobody on the sideline was wearing headsets.

Not quite coach to coach, more like coach to player

When a player from the opposing team tells me ( a few months after the season), that one of my linemen told him , " To take it easy, its just a game."

I couldn't believe it. So, I confronted all the starting 'O' Linemen and ask them... sure enough, my sophomore starting guard had said it.

Thats what I get for bringing him up to Varsity

Sorry for jumping the topic...

What pisses me off is when you are talking to somone who "knows" more than you and they talk down to you. That pisses me off.

WOW, THAT ONE IS A GOOD ONE..."JUST A YOUTH COACH", "JUST A FROSH COACH"..ITS MEANT TO BE A SHOT AT YOU. KIND OF LIKE PLAYING CHESS IN THE PARK...SOME GUYS NEVER PLAY IN TOURNAMENTS BUT WOULD WHUP SOME ARSE IF THEY DID.

Here is a good one for those HC's that don't think much of their asst's. I was with a program that had very little coaching support much less community,school support. I was the JV HC and Var Ast D Coord, anyhow my last game with the JV we were 8th gr kids playing 9,10 regular JV teams well this last game we were down by 27 - 7 after the half we start pounding the crap out of this team "musta been sumthin in the gatorade or sumthin" anyhow 2:00 left they have the ball they are in a d wing set which was new from what they did the whole game well i told defense to get in a base 50 well something went wrong and all the db's were on the right side away from the play doing what I don't know the HC of the varsity comes over and starts chewing my butt why are those guys over there, I say I don't know we don't practice that, what ever it is he says fix it I say ok shut up so I can, he walks off, the play hasn't even started I'm going ape nuts for the dbs to get in position when the ball gets snapped the nose creates a fumble scores we are down by 10 at this point. My guys come to side I ask why they were all over there where ther were well coach we were thinking if your the coach why did the Var HC tell us that they were gonna line up in a trip formation" I turn and look at the Var HC then tell the kids do you know what trips are and they replied simply yes coach we thought it meant were going home" needless to say that when that game was over we lost by three. After the game I simply told the Var HC never reprimand me in front of my team during a game second don't talk to my players during a game since you don't know what the hell you are talking about. That friday duirng his game i was chatting with the DC during pre game to find out what they were doing stunt wise he said the HC said that we arn't go do anything but a base d toinight I said ok so what do you want to do then he says well lets just tell jokes until he wants to play football then If he ask what we are doing we could just tell him we were just getting ready to tell the defense we were gonna line up in trips and go to McDonalds for a shake cause you shure as hell don't know what your doing. He ran the same play 59x with little success two other variations of the same play 29x's we lost 49 -12. Neeedless to say a coach that knows it all deserves to have his a_ _ kicked. This is really a true story.