Post by Defcord on Aug 30, 2022 9:12:46 GMT -6
I do feel like coaches bring some of the drama on by not just being straight forward with parents and kids. The hemming and hawing some coaches do leave parents with an ambiguous message. If everyone is there, might as well shoot em straight and get on with it.
I also will follow up these meetings with a recap email to the administrator in the meeting so that way everything is documented.
Agreed. We laid out a lot with the parents in our two meetings and missed very little. I'm too old to be anything but straightforward with the parents about the expectations that we have for the program. In our first parent meeting this year, we had a dad who wasn't happy about our developmental philosophy when it comes to playing time for the younger kids:
"Well, what's gonna happen if the other team only plays their best kids?"
"We're going to keep rotating our boys in and we'll probably lose."
"What happens if EVERY team plays their studs and we don't?"
"Then we might lose every game this season. This is a non-negotiable within our program; the kids that have earned playing time through effort and attitude will be playing. At the end of the day, it's our job to teach the kids to enjoy the game of football and keeping them coming out. I'm not going to tell a 5th grader that if he busts hump all year, I might play him as a 6th grader."