Long Time D1 Coach thinking of Hanging it UP because-WOKE is too much

Sub-9 guy wrote:

Stoppit Smith wrote:

To paraphrase and adapt a quote from Roald Dahl (as relayed in Matilda (1996): we want good coaches daddy...why can't you give people good coaches.

If you can't adapt, you're just a trunchbull.

In my student-teaching practicum, which I passed well a wise teacher ..Mr. Mark Bauer...told me...you can be right or a good teacher .

Would you rather be right or a great coach?

One can be both. Tough love is love. But the woke mob fails to realize this and merely values their own gloating sense of self-entitlement, victimization, & martyrdom.

You sound like part of this woke mob. Or mentally ill. Or something. Were your feelings hurt by a coach or something? For real?

No. I had good coaches mainly.

I hate the mindset of "jocks"

There are athletes, coaches and jocks.

Most of you fit into #3

So you all get what you get.

surveysays wrote:

coachingProbs wrote:

I feel like this is hurtful. I'm not being supported for my feelings and aspirations of helping people. You all are NOT here for the athlete but you are here to hurt me and that is a sign that bullies have no place in this sport!!! Stop being mean and realize that my mental health matters! STOP OBJECTIVIFYING me!!!!

You clearly lack the maturity to be an average coach, let alone a good one.

Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that was not a serious post, ss.

What does awareness of police violence have to do with coaching track?

Any time a coach complains about their runners on LetsRun, it's obvious to everyone that they are just a bad coach.

It’s fine to move on because you no longer enjoy it. I teach college and deal with the same issues. Not sure how long I will enjoy this low paying job.

But quitting and blaming the athletes/students is to be soft as them. Just own it and move on.

Also, stay off social media. You’re better off not seeing that performance nonsense. 

OP needs to quit. 0% chance he would actually get in trouble for saying someone had a bad race. 100% chance he just doesn't "have the lockerroom" and is hated by the team.

College runners are not getting slower. If they are at your school, look in the mirror.

You should definitely quit, you are not even good at making up stories about being a coach.

If you're going to use "woke" in both the thread title and your post you need to start things off with, "I'm a Democrat, but..."

ikr?

Yeah, about that... wrote:

surveysays wrote:

You clearly lack the maturity to be an average coach, let alone a good one.

Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that was not a serious post, ss.

I’m aware. That’s one of the reasons he clearly lacks the maturity to be a coach.

Our HS coach got in trouble with parents and AD for saying in the paper that some of the upperclassmen underperformed in a meet.

OK So this morning at practice I met with one of the guys. We had a nice chat about coach/athlete relationship. I took to heart a lot of the posters saying I'm a bad coach and so- after dedicating so much to the sport and the team I knew I was just upset at the changing times and needed to be better for the ones who I wasn't connecting with.... to be better for the whole team- not just the ones I prefer. So I started with one of them today and we had a good talk that seems to be a good step forward. Thank you for helping me be better and reminding me what really is important.

Coach…I agree with you. Time to go

That said…this message board is not that place to expect to find empathy. Not with the slobs here.

Who the eff are you? You're probably not indispensable.

1.) If they aren't trying, putting in the effort, and are racing poorly, you are aware you can cut them, right? This is college D1, not high school JV.

2.) Maybe you should do more to vet your athletes when you're recruiting them.

To me, this sounds like you'd rather complain than set/follow through with expectations and hold your athletes accountable, all of which are what's necessary to manage a good program.

hard worker wrote:

also a coach wrote:

Don’t have a sexist/racist/homophobic/transphobic/ableist program and you have nothing to worry about. Being a good person takes care of 99.9% of that. If it’s not happening during practice and people show up to work, who cares? Can’t handle that? I have a lawn you can mow.

The part in bold is completely subjective. The definition of those terms changes weekly. I would bet you are a horrible person by many people's standards.

Correct. The bar hasn't just moved, it constantly moves. What's nice and encouraging to most, might be humiliating and embarrassing to others. What's acceptable to most, might be unacceptable to others. And it goes beyond just differing ideas. People are openly and loudly offended.

Wasn't there a post sometime last year about a coach who commented on a new hair style from one of his athletes and got in trouble because that athlete felt it was inappropriate and the responses were split as to the appropriateness of commenting on something like that? This has become unpredictable. How do you coach effectively without having connections with your athletes? Making those connections used to be easy. Taken advantage of by some rogue coaches sure, but most good coaches would ask about their athletes birthday party because they had genuine interest in their lives. Now, asking about what a kid did for his or her birthday might get you in trouble.

“Did you have a nice birthday?” = fine and nobody would have a problem

“You look like you party hard. I bet you know how to have a good time” to a female athlete = creepy innuendo.

The problem is the second coach would then phrase that as “all I did was ask about her birthday!” And then gullible trolls would shriek about how you can’t even say happy birthday any more.