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Post by tango on May 2, 2012 9:56:02 GMT -6
I was told once you start checking out the cheerleaders moms instead of the cheerleaders you are an old coach? I'm old!
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Post by John Knight on May 2, 2012 10:48:45 GMT -6
I have been old for a long time then. I have never been interested in the high school Cheerbops since I was in high school.
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Post by mholst40 on May 2, 2012 11:18:43 GMT -6
With the girls we had cheerleading in HS, I wasn't interested in them then!
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Post by fantom on May 2, 2012 11:36:16 GMT -6
You're an old coach when you start coaching the sons of former players.
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Post by olsenray61 on May 2, 2012 11:47:19 GMT -6
Fantom,isn't that a true statement! Also, when you look at the kid and say the fruit does not fall far from the tree. LOL
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Post by TMGPG on May 2, 2012 11:53:20 GMT -6
I wish it was: "your old when you get to see your players kids out running around" Unfortunately we have a couple of players that are apparently pretty potent and their kids are already running around and they are still in HS.
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Post by pittss11 on May 2, 2012 11:55:17 GMT -6
When you coach with a former players son, you are old.
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Post by tango on May 2, 2012 12:36:56 GMT -6
Coaching in my home town. The first day of practice my wife has a message that one of my former classmates called and wanted to talk to me about his son. He told her we were good friends in high school. I asked my wife if he left his name. I had to ask him if they still called him Tater and yes we called his son Tot.
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Post by newhope on May 2, 2012 13:26:21 GMT -6
Every day.
Even old coaches call me an old coach. I've got guys on staff ready to retire. I'm old to them. There's a group of old retired coaches who meet from time to time around here. They call themselves "Jurassic Park". One of their members invited me to attend sometime.
Next year will be 40 years of coaching. That's old.
However: I'll still work rings around most and I still have a young outlook---I'm just not quite as wild and crazy as I once was.
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Post by bluboy on May 2, 2012 18:25:39 GMT -6
I guess I must be really old. I am coaching with guys I coached against when they were in high school. The head coaches of some of our opponents are guys I coached in high school. I am coaching a number of kids whose fathers I coached. Last, but not least, I coached against my son in both a semi-final game one year and the championship game the next year.
Newpride: congratulations. This is year is my 40th. Time does fly when you're having so much fun....
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Post by TMGPG on May 2, 2012 18:38:15 GMT -6
Remember- with age comes wisdom!
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Post by rsmith627 on May 2, 2012 19:12:09 GMT -6
I was told once you start checking out the cheerleaders moms instead of the cheerleaders you are an old coach? I'm old! I was told that once you start checking out the cheerleaders, you can go to jail.
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Post by Chris Clement on May 2, 2012 19:15:53 GMT -6
There's nothing wrong with window shopping, as long as you don't bring anything home!
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Post by hawke on May 2, 2012 21:17:45 GMT -6
As Fantom knows I'm at the point of being able to coach the grandsons of some I coached many years ago. This year is the 49th but I still don't feel as though I'm an old coach even though at league meetings all my "old" colleagues are gone. To me you are an "old coach" when you wonder what in the hell are you doing here (practice). It's time to go. You are an "old coach." So, even though they may call you the "Old Coach" you are not until you question yourself. Hawke
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Post by larrymoe on May 2, 2012 21:40:55 GMT -6
My getting old moment happened in wrestling when I sat down to coach a match at a tournament and looked across the mat to see the other HC was a kid I had coached when he was in HS.
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Post by jlenwood on May 3, 2012 5:39:04 GMT -6
I was checking out the cheer leading mom's at a game one night. While looking, there was a rather attractive mommy, and my thought was "Man, she sure is a good looking gal!".
I don't feel old because I was checking out the mom, I feel old because I thought the word "gal"!
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Post by mhs99 on May 3, 2012 6:46:21 GMT -6
You are old coach when you: * Coach and wear those tight gray Bike shorts that have two snaps that shows your junk * Were a player with a leather helemt or single bar facemask * If ESPN was not invented when you began coaching * Teachers were actually allowed to teach in class and not worry about rubrics and Common Standards * Coach agaisnt teams that ran the direct snap single wing......oh wait that is back in vouge
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Post by John Knight on May 3, 2012 9:47:00 GMT -6
find one with parkinsons.
You aint right!
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Post by Wingtman on May 3, 2012 9:47:51 GMT -6
Reminds me of a joke: An old bull and young bull are standing in the pasture when they see a herd of hefiers. Young bull " Lets run down the hill and have sex with one of them" Old Bull "Lets walk down there and have sex with ALL of them"
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Post by John Knight on May 3, 2012 9:49:26 GMT -6
Yeah, Old Bulls are full of BS too!
My version of the joke:
The old bull and the young bull were standing at the top of the hill overlooking a paddock of many gorgeous young heifers. The young bull said, "Let's charge down the hill, knock over that fence and service one of those heifers each". The old bull wisely replied, "Why don't we saunter down the hill, open the gate, take a sip at the water trough and then service ALL of those heifers?"
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Post by davishfc on May 3, 2012 13:55:07 GMT -6
I just met one of my new players at the school I'm headed to. He works for my DC out on his farm. My wife was with me and we were talking in the living room for a while before we took off. Apparently when I left he asked Coach if "she" was "my daughter?"...WTF! I'm turning 30 in June which I've heard is the new 20 but man did I feel almost 50 after that one. $#!t she's 7 years younger than me which is younger I know...but holy Toledo!
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Post by airman on May 3, 2012 14:04:39 GMT -6
I just met one of my new players at the school I'm headed to. He works for my DC out on his farm. My wife was with me and we were talking in the living room for a while before we took off. Apparently when I left he asked Coach if "she" was "my daughter?"...WTF! I'm turning 30 in June which I've heard is the new 20 but {censored} did I feel almost 50 after that one. $#!t she's 7 years younger than me which is younger I know...but holy Toledo! My wife is really fit(she competes in bikini contests) looks like she is 22 at 42. she was at the beach with her sister laying out in the sun and some players at my new school started hitting on her. She said " you guys go to such and such school" Players "yes" My wife " well my husband is so and so" players with a look of shock and terror said "oh no"
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Post by blb on May 4, 2012 7:28:36 GMT -6
You must have lived a "Fast 40," dc.
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Post by jgordon1 on May 4, 2012 9:44:46 GMT -6
I have a couple of players and a kid I recruited but didn't land coaching for FBS teams...Makes me feel old
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Post by strathcoach on May 4, 2012 10:03:40 GMT -6
When what the politics you studied at college is now studied by the current crop of students as history.
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Post by outlawjoseywales on May 5, 2012 9:37:52 GMT -6
Love it when the Miami 4-3 was called The Traditional 4-3-several years ago at that. When did that happen? Old? No! Older? Yes. I've got former players in their 40's...well into their 40's. When did that happen? I'll have you know we never wore leader helmet, however we had coaches that used them. One of my coaches, didn't ever wear a helmet when he played. We could go on and on about "what we had or what we did." It's a very different world now, most all of it is for the better. If you were raised po' in the rural south (which stayed in the depression until the 1970's) you would be thankful for all the wonderful things we have. I never complain about this modern age. I love A.C., computers, cell phones, and direct TV-I have no complaints.
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Post by bleefb on May 6, 2012 23:01:32 GMT -6
"2nd - I know how you feel...I date a 51 year old"
Hey, I thought you were dating a 26 year old! You sure are working both ends of the spectrum, DC! ;D
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Post by Chris Clement on May 7, 2012 6:44:31 GMT -6
My kids think I'm old because Under Armour and Riddell Revolutions came out while I was in high school. They wouldn't know how to deal with you guys!
Also, dcohio, your life is very dramatic.
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Post by irishdog on May 19, 2012 11:52:47 GMT -6
You're an old coach when you started coaching in 1972, coached against one of your former players 10 years later, coached with one of your former players 20 years later, got beat by one of your former players 30 years later, and finally... coached FOR one of your former players 40 years later!
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Post by Chris Clement on May 19, 2012 14:00:34 GMT -6
Same guy?
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