What can you do with a drunken Athletic Director?

There is nothing quite as frustrating as working for an incompetent boss. My sincere advice is to find a position somewhere else.

Shave 'is belly with a rusty razor.

That's what you do with a drunken Athletic Director.

Early in the morning...

Arrrrh Matey wrote:

Shave 'is belly with a rusty razor.

That's what you do with a drunken Athletic Director.

But only if it's earl-lie in the morning

Just win baby.

Follow his rules-but be underground-win despite him, not because of him. Don't tell him how many miles you are running.

dude, just have the parents say something. The Board is his boss, and the parents are their boss. Learn how the system works.

I am assuming this is high school A number of these are valid but

1 - do the busy roads have sidewalks? If do, that's fine but if not, better to run elsewhere especially with big groups training together

2 - What do you mean by Camps? Is this allowed under the state rules because many states would not allow you to coach your kids in the offseason?

3 - Awards - Aren't they already getting awards for winning each? What were you looking to give and what kind of budget ramifications could that have for that and other sports?

7 - shirts - Deal with it. It's high school and understandable at that age

8 - Bus - Is this for liability reasons? Is it not possible to do all runs from school and how far are you going?

9 - lifeguard - for school liability sake, I would require this too. This is my biggest argument on your list.

Stuff like 5 (cannot coach both track and XC), 6 (mileage - assuming you are not running everyone insane miles which I assume you are not), 10 (not in rain), and 11 (10 minutes before race) are the main ones that are stupid and hope those are the ones you definitely negotiated out. 4 (Varsity Letter) - Assume this was easy to negotiate as well.

I don't think our athletic director was even aware there was a cross country team.

Sounds like he is trying to get rid of you (by taking away all your authority), and you just haven't taken the hint.

So the title says he is a 'drunken AD', but no mention of this in the post. Just gripes about his rules. Care to expand?

Why do you want to run in crowded roads? I've never run in a crowded road, and I don't think this has hampered my training at all.

What kind of awards do you want your AD to give? I'd think that a medal from states would be a sufficient award on its own.

Hot take

1) I can see the road thing for safety reasons. Seriously, you should be smart enough not to run on roads with a lot of traffic.

2) Seems strange

3) What extra awards do you want?

4) My guess is that this is to keep it fair across all sports. Although the criteria needs to be reasonable for each sport.

5) Is this a policy? Or is it the case where a teacher wants to coach track and gets priority as happens in some state?

6) Seems strange

7) This is pretty common. Deal with it

8) Bus? Well a bus uses a lot of gas and could be used for other purposes. I can see this one.

9) This makes sense to me. Also, there is a standard for the number of lifeguards per person in the pool.

10) Rain or lightning? The latter is a smart move.

11) There has to be something more to this.

1. Other teams in the same school district run on the roads I talked about.

2. Yes, for real and I could not change this...No Camps allowed. No one in our district has a Camp. Overnight Camps even if there are several parents involved are not allowed.

3. Cheap award after winning a section title for the first time in nearly 30 years in CC. Excuse me for not knowing MR. Smart A.D.

4. The coach should decide who letters. I got a note in my box suggesting a certain boy should letter my very first year at this school. It's a good thing I had decided earlier that he would letter or that would have been a deal breaker. I have mellowed since then, but really!!!

5. King Football goes to State every year. Did I mention this Football HC cut me AFTER we started to win in CC. This is not as uncommon as you might think. It probably happens in every state in the USA.

6. I won't elaborate on this one but the girls coach almost never has her girls run beyond 4 miles. They have been near last every year for over 20 years in our league. They do not run hard intervals either. They play games!!!

7. It's a stupid rule if you rarely see the girls team.

8. You need a bus if there is no safe place to run in our metropolitan area with our A.D.

9. It makes sense but it's an insult when you will not be in the water with them.

10. I'm talking about it raining when we start running, and then turning into lightning.

11. We were only getting to meets about 10-20 minutes before races. I had to go to the A.D. and explain to him that we needed time to go over the course before the race. But before I got to explain that he berated me about being too fussy, and it costing too much and etc. It wound up being a nasty argument. I have seen other coaches go through the same thing with this guy over silly things.

The previous coach said to me that Mr. ***************** doesn't want to win.

However I found out he does want to win in football and basketball!!!

Why do you want to see your team topless so much?

You blackmail the sh!t out of him till he gives you everything you want and them some. Then you get him fired

What CAN'T you do with a drunken AD?

OP is your AD Barack Obama by chance?

Does this mean it is okay for the girls to run in running bra tops?

Burrrpp wrote:

7. Shirts must be worn by boys at all times

Funny how the dress code has changed. 100 years ago it was the women who had to wear the unrevealing clothing, long dresses, etc. Now it's the guys who need to wear the long shorts and hide their chests.