Yep, it's hard to just sit back and watch. I've coached High School Football and one year of High School Fastpitch. When my daughter started tball, I didn't want to coach her. I wanted her to learn from someone else because I understand how difficult it can be to coach your own child. Nobody else was willing to do it so I agreed to coach them. I coached her in her local town ball league until last year when we dropped out in favor of the travel team. I had brought her to play in a different league when she was 8. Again trying to let her learn from someone else. We had bad experience with coaches on two team, so me and our other coach decided to just form our own team and coach the way we want to. It's very tough coaching your own kid. We argue and bicker back and forth a lot, and I don't know anything, but I'm trying to do my best not to over coach her and focus on the other players. Letting our other coach work with my daughter more than me.
When I played ball.. it was a big thing around our area. My team was the unbeatable team with six years of domination and few losses. I think the whole "everyone wins" idea is good if you are six.. not a 9U team. I guess that is just the way it's gonna be now with all the "bullying: going on in schools and how everyone should be "good". I always thought that when you lose.. you learn from it, get better and learn some new things, I guess nowadays they don't see it that way.
everybody pretty much summed up what i was going to say! I also think it's more about the parents not wanting to feel inferior to other parents if there kid loses. A lot of parents suck and live vicariously through there children. My son plays bantam level ice hockey (2001-2000 birth years) and this will be the first year checking is allowed. Not looking forward to being a spectator from here on out! parents are already going ballistic on each other in the stands at the u-6 level screaming at the top of there lungs, threatening other players for hitting/bumping into there child.. It was never like that when i was a kid, if you didnt get a trophy it was because you sucked and need to work harder next year to get one.
I coached 10U for both of my daughters and it was horrible. You have to play everyone and they get mad for a team running up the score. Im not saying I would sit a girl out because she is not good. But if a girl shows up and refuses to practice or participate with the team I will not play her where she wants. I would rather have a girl that has no skill but gives me 100% on the field play than the best player in the league show up to games and not practice and expect to start every game. Win/Lose both need to be taught you cant get better if you dont have a reason to improve. With running up the score I feel if the girls have the capability of scoring then let them that is what they come to practice and work on their skills for.
LIL mans first Tball "game" was last night.... I was more than dissapointed in that display of stupidity. It wasn't even friggin Tball, I mean who the heck comes up with this crap anyway. They had both teams in their respective dugouts and they never interacted on the field. One team sat while the other took the field for their own batters.. WTH???? Each child got one chance at bat and their own team fielded the hits, then the other team took a turn. I was in disbelief the entire time. Guess ALOT has changed (and not for the better IMO) since my youth. I did have a talk with the coaches and volunteered my help provided they were interested in creating some actual structure to the games. They accepted and said they intend to do more and that the first "game" was really just an opportunity to get everyone together for the first time, take team pics, etc..... guess we will see. Myles did have an absolute blast and I enjoyed watching him very much. The boy shows some potential for his age I think. Gonna be an interesting summer.
Keeping score is important winning and losing are important in youth sports. Having that bad taste in your mouth from a loss can teach you a lot as you get older. Losing in the game of life should not be accepted. Do what you can to change it.
Hey now!!! Everyone knows IL keeps score in baseball. How else would you explain the Cubs century of suck?
I think they should keep score not only to show the kids some pride for there work, but also to teach them to be good winners/losers.
I definitely think scores should be kept no matter what the age for many of the reasons already listed. I know we kept score since I could remember starting back in my T-ball days and that's how it should be.
My 11 yr old plays in an extremely competitive soccer organization. Those girls wouldnt be playing if it were an everyone gets a trophy game thing.
