HS coaching disagreement: Who's the A**hole? You decide!

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Please sum it up. Your post length leads me to suspect you are "into drama."

Your response reads like something written by chatgpt

My perspective is that I want what is best for the athletes that I coach and the athletes on my team. I don't need to go into whether or not there have been past issues, or the wide expanse of human emotion, I'm asking for comments in this single case.

"Coach doesn't want fairly talented runner to enter off-event at last chance meet because they have never run that event before." I only put the whole text in so I would be fair and not putting words in someone's mouth, not because of drama.

I have a hard time getting past the boy being a pacer? What do you mean?

You come off as quite strange. Also telling the head coach that things aren't quite square invited him to question everything.

She should have been in the 4x400 all along. Nothing wrong with her being in the open 400 if she is ready for it.

You come of as sexist, because you assumed the Head Coach wasn't a woman. Now who's quite strange?

Either way if my underling posted one of our conversations to LRC...Bye bye.

Isn’t your athletes highschool season over? Your athlete can run an unattached 400m if they want to, I honestly don’t know why you had to ask the coach much less these message boards

Why, are you also the AD and head of HR for your school district? That would be bizarre...

The way he wrote out the enthralling conversation I'm hoping he'll do a screen play.

Northeastern state.

With a handle like "juicy lucy" my money is that you are from the mid west

Good guess, but that's actually what I ate for dinner. You have to start them off of direct heat on the grill.

your presence on this board and every thing about your demeanour here answers the question completely

well, i don't understand why somebody wouldn't be allowed to enter an event at a last chance meet, but i feel like there could be more to the story.

head coach seems to have a problem with your girl. any reason why that could be? Also, you and head coach don't appear to have a great working relationship. what's up with that?

that kind of stinks. ive been coaching for 13 years, and I've only ever had friction with one coach, for one year. And we got along great for years after that.

Please, don't compliment me. I will say that there people have tried to read between the lines and haven't stated many opinions on my original post, though... Also, you misspelled "demeanor."

Fair enough... I guess the real question is to what end? As long as your athlete had something to run that day, then that's enough. Her real season was over and she can do some road racing and get ready for XC or she can do open track meets and run whatever she wants.

I guess the head coach just thought it was grasping at straws. Either the athlete is a 400m runner or she isn't, and some last-minute, ad hoc attempt to get her to a qualifying standard doesn't really change that.

And I doubt either of your are a**holes. You are passionate about finding a path to a qualifier and the head coach is right to point out that kids should not do an event for first time at a last chance meet. You are both right about different things...