CycloneErik
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Every parent these days thinks their kid is an all-star who will get a D1 scholarship.
Mine is 6, but I'm sending those e-mails already. Coaches need to know their place.
Every parent these days thinks their kid is an all-star who will get a D1 scholarship.
Mine is 6, but I'm sending those e-mails already. Coaches need to know their place.
Emails? The 90s called and want their social media back. You should have a HUDL video out by now set to some thumping hip hop song about disrespecting women. Less steak, more sizzle!
I can confirm from my wrestling career that you do not get a chance for a kick out at 2....
And the lights in most gyms are quite bright
Love it! I tell my girlfriend that I'm screaming at the ref not because I have anything against him(her), but because I'm getting my primal rage out. You just can't get that rage out in everyday life.My pet theory is that --
We are physiologically and psychologically cavemen. Humans were hunter-gatherers for 200,000 years before being serfs/peasant farmers/slaves for roughly 12,000 years before we developed a modern economy and society ~250 years ago.
Evolution has not kept up.
When we were hunter-gatherers, athleticism, tribal oneness, and violence was the name of the game. They directly led to food, safety, survival, and reproduction.
The practical circumstances of our lives and bodies started diverging from that with the agricultural revolution around 10,000 BC and completely decoupled from that around 1700 with the industrial revolution but, again, our brains/bodies have not.
So when we have instances to let those old instincts fly... tribal loyalties, hatred for the other side, violence and blood-lust, the desire for conquest and domination, man oh man all those old, barbaric sorts of ways and thoughts come out in us.
Sports and politics are those two places where we can be cavemen again and enjoy it. And we do it enjoy it -- hating Iowa/the opposite party shoots your brain up with dopamine. We are programmed to do that, to feel that way, to hate, because feeling hatred of outsiders, fear of any unknowns, avoiding unnecessary risks, and relying on your tribe were how you survived as a hunter-gatherer. That naked ape is far from gone, however, and you can see it breaking out of our civilized veneer from time to time in moments.
I went to elementary school in a school district that was huge in wrestling. There was one family that was all about wresting. The youngest boy was in my class and he was long and lanky. By the start of junior high he was about 6'2" and 145#. Why he followed in his brothers' footsteps and wrestled instead of playing basketball I'll never know. I moved to a different school district, but I saw that he was 6'7" by the time he graduated in a 1A school. He would have been the tallest player in the entire conference. I get doing what you grew up doing and probably love it, but he never amounted to anything on the mat - I don't think he even ever started. It was disappointing.When I was a freshman in high school some friends tried to get me to go out for wrestling instead of basketball. I was north of 6' tall and weighed about a buck ten. They convinced me to grapple with the 103 lber for fun. He had me twisted into a pretzel in three seconds.
No thanks, I'll stick with hoops.
Letting a rogue parent ruin a team experience for all the other kids is not how it should work.
Mine is 6, but I'm sending those e-mails already. Coaches need to know their place.
Your parents went to your games?I feel kinda bad... My parents used to flip a coin to see who HAD to go to my games...
So, you didn’t catch onto the joke before that?When I was a freshman in high school some friends tried to get me to go out for wrestling instead of basketball. I was north of 6' tall and weighed about a buck ten. They convinced me to grapple with the 103 lber for fun. He had me twisted into a pretzel in three seconds.
No thanks, I'll stick with hoops.
Mine is 6, but I'm sending those e-mails already. Coaches need to know their place.
How is her jumper? If she doesn't have a smooth J don't even talk to me.Mine is 6, but I'm sending those e-mails already. Coaches need to know their place.
Yes on this one for certain. Supt. and his wife unhappy over daughter's playing time and start the petition. Mind boggling for certain, shame on the school board for going along with the witch hunt as well.circumstance i heard about-
girls bb coach who coached for close to 25 years was forced to resign b/c superintendents kid didn't play. supers wife started a petition to get him fired/to resign.
great coach. that program wont see near the wins/conf titles it had under him for a long time
I don't think the answer is taking it out on the kid because of what the parent does.
I watched my cousin's son wrestle (and he is... 11? 12?) a few weekends ago.
He wrestled a girl (and I guess they do coed at that age). Pinned her. Had her dead to rights, shoulders and mid-back on the mat, and the ref called it.
Thing was... the ref did not count it off. I am no expert when it comes to wrestling, but it is my understanding that is a courtesy but not required/expected by an official.
The girl's mom lost it. Chewed out the ref for 15 minutes.
When he eventually stopped responding, she went to the announcer and the organizer of the tournament. Kept on chewing and chewing and chewing... like having a few seconds of count would have helped when she was screwed anyways.
I sneaked by and heard a snippet of the exchange...
Organizer... "She's 11, how much does this really matter to the outcome of her life?"
Woman... "If it was your child, you would understand!"
It was around then she finally gave up. They never claimed their second-place award.
What about youth sports makes people go a little crazy?
I went to elementary school in a school district that was huge in wrestling. There was one family that was all about wresting. The youngest boy was in my class and he was long and lanky. By the start of junior high he was about 6'2" and 145#. Why he followed in his brothers' footsteps and wrestled instead of playing basketball I'll never know. I moved to a different school district, but I saw that he was 6'7" by the time he graduated in a 1A school. He would have been the tallest player in the entire conference. I get doing what you grew up doing and probably love it, but he never amounted to anything on the mat - I don't think he even ever started. It was disappointing.
circumstance i heard about-
girls bb coach who coached for close to 25 years was forced to resign b/c superintendents kid didn't play. supers wife started a petition to get him fired/to resign.
great coach. that program wont see near the wins/conf titles it had under him for a long time