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Love poor-sport youth coaches.  I remember the only coach who ever refused to shake my hand in any sport.  Circumstances?  Christian church league, baseball for six year olds, score not kept.
I don't know if you remember Dave Baldwin, he had some pretty good teams at San Jose State.  One of his coaches was a 1-AA All America when he played, has been coaching college football since 1986, great guy, exactly the kind of guy you would want to coach your kids.  His son wants to play Pop Warner football, he's got some talent.  Gets drafted, and father and son show up for the first day of practice.  He walks up to the three coaches, decked out head to toe in Raider gear and says "Guys, my name is xxx and I coach over at San Jose State.  I'd be happy to help in any way you'd like."  They look him over, head to toe and say "No thanks, man."  Son has a very unhappy year, it turns out to be the only year he plays football.  Sticks with baseball, never looks back.
I've coached about 20 youth sports teams by now, in baseball, flag football, basketball, volleyball, soccer and track.  I could fill a book with the stories, a thick book.

Oh, Little League.  On my son's team I was the only father who didn't think his kid would someday play in the Majors.  Three of them made the HS FROSH TEAM; one was a BENCHWARMER (sorry, spellcheck INSISTS this must be in all caps) on varsity.  Of course they all knew the coach was an idiot, despite winning CIF once in our 4 years and sending two players to minor league contracts, one of whom actually ended up having a cup or two of coffee in the Bigs.

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Love poor-sport youth coaches.  I remember the only coach who ever refused to shake my hand in any sport.  Circumstances?  Christian church league, baseball for six year olds, score not kept.
I don't know if you remember Dave Baldwin, he had some pretty good teams at San Jose State.  One of his coaches was a 1-AA All America when he played, has been coaching college football since 1986, great guy, exactly the kind of guy you would want to coach your kids.  His son wants to play Pop Warner football, he's got some talent.  Gets drafted, and father and son show up for the first day of practice.  He walks up to the three coaches, decked out head to toe in Raider gear and says "Guys, my name is xxx and I coach over at San Jose State.  I'd be happy to help in any way you'd like."  They look him over, head to toe and say "No thanks, man."  Son has a very unhappy year, it turns out to be the only year he plays football.  Sticks with baseball, never looks back.
I've coached about 20 youth sports teams by now, in baseball, flag football, basketball, volleyball, soccer and track.  I could fill a book with the stories, a thick book.

Oh, Little League.  On my son's team I was the only father who didn't think his kid would someday play in the Majors.  Three of them made the HS FROSH TEAM; one was a BENCHWARMER (sorry, spellcheck INSISTS this must be in all caps) on varsity.  Of course they all knew the coach was an idiot, despite winning CIF once in our 4 years and sending two players to minor league contracts, one of whom actually ended up having a cup or two of coffee in the Bigs.