Worst coach youve ever had

Duane Vandenbusche. Honestly. I swear I'm not trolling.

The guy had no clue what his teams were doing. They were largely being coached by the seniors on the team and drop outs like Aish. They would take easy days when he thought they were out hammering a hard 12 miles.

He would simply regurgitate old workouts from the past in some kind of random rotation. He made us do bench press, curls and other useless weights. A complete joke.

I recall doing 64 50s in practice the first week of track... coach said we were going to qualify for state if we did that workout... LOL... anybody who made state crashed abd burned cause they were trashed physically by the time they got there

HS basketball. Has tryouts. Coach made sure no one was around, said "You'll never make the team as long as I'm coaching.." He was right. I was bitter because I was easily better than at least 3 people who made the team.

I used that later in life, and became an all-inclusion type of coach. Meaning, whether you are good enough or not, I encouraged people who tried out to come back or maybe become the team manager and possibly workout with the team and get better. I received several letters from parents telling me how I was the only one who gave their kid a chance. Many went on to become doctors, lawyers, and even military officers. I'd like to think that encouraging those young boys and girls who later became men and women, helped them feel better about themselves and have the confidence to apply to med school, ocs, law school, etc.

I've got you all topped.

My HS coach would have us run a mile and do something like 30 minutes of stretching and drills. We got daily speeches about how he was training us like Africans. If we ever questioned his methods, he'd lecture us about how he's been running for 30 years, how he's had all these kids make it to the League final, blah, blah, blah. We ran 5 days a week doing this, and if it ever rained, he'd cancel practice, because he supposedly didn't want us getting sick. To be honest, we were HS kids who really didn't care whether we sucked or not, so having a coach who didn't know $hit was no big deal.

It gets better though. After practice, we'd hit the shower and that's where the true magic tended to happen. Even though he never ran with us, the coach would still shower with us. I guess he thought it was good for team bonding, who knows. Anyhow, this guy was a real joker too, but with an obviously twisted sense of humor. E.g., sometimes he'd walk up behind some kid in the shower and act like he was rear-ending him. We're talking the coach's meat is pressed up against some kid's a$$ and the coach has his hands on the kid's love handles. Other times, he'd walk up behind one of the freshmen while the freshman kid was sitting on the bench by his locker, swing his hips side to side and wag his dick across the back of the kid's head. When the kid was stupid and turned around, he'd get a cheek smack from the coach's Johnson. He'd also walk out of the shower with a towel around his waist, stop behind some kid, drop the towel and f@rt on the back of some kid's head. We're talking the kind of f@rt where you expect to see onion rings or some $hit he ate a week ago fly out of his a$$.

This was before we had a girls team (thank goodness). I can't explain why, but we couldn't bring ourselves to quit. It was almost like a game of what's gonna happen today?!!

Worst coach I ever had was my high school coach. He typically had us do 4 workouts a week and an 8 mile long run on Friday, then we wouldn't run on the weekends unless we had a meet. We had 2 meets a week.

Halfway through the season we weren't as fast as he wanted us to be so he added a 5 mile run each morning, but instead of us running it slow, or easy. He had us run all out as fast as we could. If we didn't run faster than the previous day (or very close in time) he would yell at us and tell us we should be more consistent or run harder (to put it in perspective I ran 32:30ish on those 5miles ( 6:30 pace), but couldn't break 18minutes for 3miles. So we ran 11 times a week with Sundays off and no easy runs/days.

Then for conditioning for track season we ran 2-6 miles a day with a 8 mile long run on Friday again Saturday/sunday off. When track rolled around we did 4 workouts a week with a long run of 8 miles on Friday. Track meets started we did 3 (3 running events each) meets a week, and 3 easy 2 mile runs a week.

During the summer we ran 8/5/8/5/8 Monday-Friday again had weekends off. The next year was pretty similar except during cross we did morning runs mwf of 5 miles.

Long story short we didn't run many miles, we had too many days off. We ran WAY too fast in practice!!!! Had too much rest on intervals and raced WAY too many times. 50+ races during track season!!!! 15 cross country races!!!

Our coach smoked. He'd fire one up at meets, and would seriously exhale smoke while he's talking to us. I can remember more than one CC meet where we'd be coughing on the line.

Brooks Johnson. For a lot of people on this board, I probably don't need to say anything more!

Stanford coach in the 1980s for those who don't know. Must be the best example still to this day of a coach combining massive talent on the team, big "credentials" (Olympic coach, etc) and total incompetence. In cross country, Brooks would have us run hard on Mon, Tues and Wed (3 days in a row!), then leave us on our own for the rest of the week. Leaving us alone might have been a good thing except for the fact that we were fried. It's amazing to think back on the 8:4x 3200m recruits and top 10 guys from Kinney nationals who were on the men's team...and wouldn't qualify for NCAAs!

Brooks was a complete prick, so you had that too. Would play up a weird racial angle all the time and refer to the women's team in team meetings as "his white princesses", etc.

Yes, I know, there were some who had success under Brooks (Jeff Atkinson; early 80s women's team (throw eggs at the wall stuff)), but Stanford should have been a perennial powerhouse throughout the 80s and wasn't. Johnson was finally pushed out in the early 90s and Lananna was hired, and it took Vin about 2 years to start having the success that Brooks should have had but didn't.

7th grade hockey coach. Wouldn't teach the fundamentals, wouldn't coach at all, just make us run drills at practice and yell a lot. Spent most of the season on the bench. Team finished last place. Hated the sport for a few years after and quit playing entirely other than the occasional pick-up game in high school.

Vandenbusche was absolute rubbish. He wanted to be Vigil. What year were you there?

What did Mike Aish drop out of? Seems like he had a really good career except for distances over 10k.

How was he as a coach, then?