Kids on my team don’t respect my autority

One is given authority by others

It can not be taken from them

It's not your authority they don't respect

as you've never had that to begin with

It's you they don't respect

Check thyself

Or wreck thyself

Do you even do kung fu?

Maybe at least spell authority correctly?

OP sounds like a self important jerk.

Respect my AUTHORITAH!!!!!

Captainship is meaningless unless it is given by your teammates. Lead by example, be a good mentor to the freshmen, and put it on your college applications.

you aren't the captain. your coach made a bad choice. the choice of who captain is should be made organically. almost every year, the kids on my team assert themselves in the first week. I don't appoint. by the end of the first couple days it becomes obvious who the leader(s) are.

and Sometimes, there aren't any natural leaders on the team.

Solution is not found online! You cannot demand their respect. Earn their respect through service to the team. For example, be the runner that waits at the end of each run and encourages all team members. When arriving at a meet, be the guy that grabs the canopy and helps, not the guy barking orders. Good luck!

You guys are brutal, dudes I am 17 and just asking for a little help. Update on what I am doing: I called a captain’s meeting for tomorrow. Every member of the team will now have to address me as “My captain” anyone who doesn’t gets a timeout from the group chat I administer. Hopefully, that works. I would hate to have to fight the ringleader. He is a wrestler and a lot bigger than me.

XC_Captain wrote:

You guys are brutal, dudes I am 17 and just asking for a little help. Update on what I am doing: I called a captain’s meeting for tomorrow. Every member of the team will now have to address me as “My captain” anyone who doesn’t gets a timeout from the group chat I administer. Hopefully, that works. I would hate to have to fight the ringleader. He is a wrestler and a lot bigger than me.

I know you are not serious regarding making everyone address you as MY CAPTAIN.

I sure figured this situation out. I knew a wrestler was giving you havoc. You do have to pull this wrestler fella off to the side for the good of the other varsity runners. You can't have a 19:30 wrestler 5K guy walking around the lockerroom degrading serious runners. I am not saying fight him. If you become a commissioned officer in U.S. military, you are going to have to get in the face of men larger and stronger than you. If become a mechanical engineer, you will have to get in the face of men larger and stronger than you. If you become a school principal, you will have to get in the face of teachers and students larger and stronger than you. Wrestler fella most likely will not back down immediately, but wrestler fella will respect your gusto.

The good thing about it being a wrestler, if you punch him in the face, he will not tell on you.

what? no one knows wrote:

Kid said he's a 16:4x 5K XC runner and he's second fastest on the team. That sounds like dozens of guys. O.P. most likely altered his P.B. a bit. The guys on JV do not know exactly how fast the top varsity runners are racing.

The story line with the hashtag reference and nickname are all revealing.

His team would know who made the post.

Except it's a troll.

XC_Captain wrote:

You guys are brutal, dudes I am 17 and just asking for a little help. Update on what I am doing: I called a captain’s meeting for tomorrow. Every member of the team will now have to address me as “My captain” anyone who doesn’t gets a timeout from the group chat I administer. Hopefully, that works. I would hate to have to fight the ringleader. He is a wrestler and a lot bigger than me.

If you resemble Robin Williams I should expect this to work.

Thanks for the input. I’m really trying to think of a title that shows I’m the team leader? Maybe student coach or Our Captain? Team Leader?

I guess I wil need to fight the troublemaker but he is a lot bigger than me. I was thinking about ordering the team to fight him or something besides me fighting him . I don’t think that will end good .

I no longer believe you. You keep going on about being addressed by a title. You stated ordering the team to beat up someone. As a captain, if you ordered your teammates to beat up another teammate: 1) You would be kicked off the team; 2) You would be suspended or kicked out of school; 3) You would face criminal prosecution. If a wrestler high school XC runner anywhere in U.S. were to get beat up by teammates, this thread would be evidence against you.

You're a fake.

Troll of the week

Juice Springsteen wrote:

Troll of the week

Agreed--classic 8/10. Kids, this is how to do it. The thread started with an inflammatory post that was just believable enough to get a bunch of responses. Spelling "authority" wrong was a nice touch. Giving out too many details was a nice touch. The post telegraphed "troll", but we still couldn't let it alone.

Then in a few more posts, the OP got steadily more ridiculous, and now it seems obvious that it was a troll all along. Taking the legitimate advice of some posters and twisting that into saying you were going to fight a wrestler was a great move.

Just a smooth, well-executed thread. Stroll, don't troll kids.

How you gonna play the dizzle like that?

I second the idea of having other kids beat them up.

XC_Captain wrote:

So, as the subject says, the kids on my team don’t respect my authority as captain. They started a hashtag for use in our group chat #notmycaptain. They also refuse to call me their captain or listen to any directions I give. Some kids even have started to call a kid who isn’t a captain their captain and listening to him instead of me. My question is what should I do to make sure they respect me?

You lost me in the first sentence but since people are actually falling for this I'll give you a 3/10.

Lioncub wrote:

Challenge the ringleader to a chili cookoff where you use their parents as the main ingredient in the dish before you feed it to him.

I must say, this is the only option.