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Post by fkaboneyard on May 11, 2017 12:57:23 GMT -6
Sounds remarkably like my vasectomy. Damn HMO's!!
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Post by fkaboneyard on May 11, 2017 11:55:22 GMT -6
I'm now at a school where the HC is changing how captains are selected. This year the coaches will make a selection, stand the player in front of the team and then ask if there is any reason why the player should not be a captain. The HC said he's hoping to avoid what has happened in years past - a popularity contest rather than selection of true leaders.
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Post by fkaboneyard on May 11, 2017 11:41:32 GMT -6
Couple of good quitting stories... First one is during a game against one of our biggest rivals. One of our starters breaks his helmet and we need another for him. So we find a kid that doesnt start who has the exact same size and style helmet. Assistant coach ask for his helmet so the starter can get back on the field. Kid refuses. Coach then tells him to give him the helmet. KId explodes and throws all his equipment off and goes to the other side of the field and cheers for the opponent. Second happened recently.. A kid comes in the first day of spring practice and tells the HC he is quitting because quote: Football is pretty f'ing gay! Both of these are AWESOME.
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Post by fkaboneyard on May 9, 2017 11:43:37 GMT -6
At my previous school (small private school) I was coaching baseball and we had a really nice kid, decent baseball player, whose dad was a prick of the highest order. He was the typical know-it-all dad that was always badmouthing the coaches and ranting at the games. Both the mom and the boy were embarrassed by dad's behavior. At one particular tournament we were in the semi-finals and the game was going sideways. Though I had planned to play the kid I needed to stop the bleeding so he sat and we ended up winning the game. At our team meeting afterward I told the kid, "Hey, I wanted to get you in today but it didn't work out. You will play tomorrow" and the kid seemed fine. Meanwhile, the dad was losing his mind in the stands with all the other parents. Later that evening his wife sent a nasty email to the entire team, coaching staff, and the AD saying we play favorites, we're inept, etc. and that she was considering pulling her son from the team. I knew that her husband was behind it all. I hit "reply to all" and told her that she and her husband were acting like fools and that if they wanted to hook their kid that was their decision. But whatever they decided the parents were no longer welcome at practices or games because I would not allow their foolish behavior to ruin baseball for the other players & their families. The dad showed up at the next practice and challenged me to a fight.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Apr 25, 2017 13:09:41 GMT -6
We had a guy once who never told us the reason but we could figure it out. He was a pretty big kid who came to the weight room and said that he wanted to play football. We watched him working out and he looked promising. That lasted until I spotted him on the bench and noticed that he was wearing a Death's Head ring. He wasn't just a short haired white kid, he was a full out skinhead. It didn't become a problem because he never came back. I'm pretty sure that he decided that he didn't quite fit into our team culture. You're better off without a kid like that although he could maybe have learned how backward he was by working with others.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Apr 24, 2017 12:04:16 GMT -6
Coached a kid as a middle schooler and as a freshman, he quit going into his sophomore year because he had to take care of his dying mother (a single mom). He wasn't a very good football player but he loved the game and always gave 100%, the kind of kid that every guy likes to coach. He tried to come back as a junior but his dad was a real prig and didn't want to be tied down to taking him to practices and games, he wanted to be able to take his ski boat to the river every weekend. The boy seemed like a nuisance to him. He needed football far more than football needed him so I offered to get him home from practice every day and said he could stay with me (one of my sons was his friend) on the weekends that dad was at the river drinking beer with his friends. Dad refused and told me to screw off, mind my own business. I still get a lump in my throat thinking about that boy apologizing for not being able to play. He really wanted it.
Had a kid quit because his dog was about to have puppies and he wanted to play with the puppies once they were born. That kid was a junior. Ay-yi-yi.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Apr 24, 2017 11:01:30 GMT -6
I don't think they are going to have to fire the HC, I imagine that will take care of itself when nobody will play for the S.O.B. that told them to throw the playoff game and got them bounced out of their shot at a title.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Apr 18, 2017 15:23:07 GMT -6
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Post by fkaboneyard on Apr 11, 2017 16:45:31 GMT -6
HC is just pissed that the DC got the last shot in.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Apr 10, 2017 13:08:45 GMT -6
My wife (then fiancee) absolutely HAD to have our wedding reception at a certain country club and the only available date was September 1st. Although I wasn't coaching or playing at the time it was an important day to me because it is opening day of dove season. I let her know that I might be a little bit late but I would be there after I had filled me limit. My best man and I shot dove on the CRIT until about 10:00 , drove back to LA, showered at a Do-It-Yourself car wash stall, and got dressed in tuxes in time to be at the church only 3 minutes late. Where there is a will, there's a way.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Apr 10, 2017 11:36:58 GMT -6
When I saw that what I thought of is that in spring ball coaches and players have different goals. Coaches want to keep the team healthy and make the team better. The goal for individual players is to get noticed and get playing time. I thought the same thing. As a coach I'd be pissed at the time but I would notice it and it might make me think more about playing him.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Apr 8, 2017 11:15:42 GMT -6
^^^^ Excellent Lebowski reference.
+1 on the promposal things. My son said to his girlfriend, "We're going to the prom together, right?" She gave him the old, "Really? That's how you're going to ask me?" He said, "Nevermind, I'll just go hog hunting that weekend." Proud dad moment.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Mar 27, 2017 11:18:12 GMT -6
Maybe its me.... but I'm of the opinion that civilization has never really been that great to begin with ever. We as a collective species are a giant pool of mediocrity and let down. Speak for yourself. I am the greatest thing since Laser Discs. What would have been a real funny turn to the story is if a kid tried to grab it to eat. This is why I only grille steaks with the team, nobody feels compelled to compare their junk to the food. They're out there, they walk among us.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Mar 24, 2017 10:29:52 GMT -6
Had a kid that would always say, "I'm MexiCAN, not MexiCAN't". In reality, he couldn't.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Mar 24, 2017 10:08:15 GMT -6
The slow decline of civilization as we know it... Maybe its me.... but I'm of the opinion that civilization has never really been that great to begin with ever. We as a collective species are a giant pool of mediocrity and let down. I'll bet you're a blast at parties.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Mar 22, 2017 14:06:40 GMT -6
I just quit coaching at a private school that would give me grade reports on any student I asked for at any time. I quickly learned who was a poor student so I focused on them. Telling them I would bench them was meaningless because the school would pull them if they had 2+ D's or 1 F.
I just joined the staff of a nearby public school and the HC said he asks position coaches to get grade reports every Monday. He says he benches kids with poor grades but I'll believe it when I see it.
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Post by fkaboneyard on Mar 21, 2017 13:52:18 GMT -6
I think this is being blown a little out of proportion, it's not like he put mustard & onions on it.
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