Guy Who Ran D1 & is now a Dad wrote:
WTF does the dad have to do with anything? His son is a damn 20-year-old man. Dad needs to get a life. Ignore the dad and let him talk crap on message boards, who cares. Deal with the kid and let him improve as much as possible. Maybe give him a time to hit for money (can you do that?).
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Guy Who Ran D1 & is now a Dad wrote:WTF does the dad have to do with anything? His son is a damn 20-year-old man. Dad needs to get a life. Ignore the dad and let him talk crap on message boards, who cares. Deal with the kid and let him improve as much as possible. Maybe give him a time to hit for money (can you do that?).
I partially agree with this post. However, as a former college coach, I can tell you what I did in a similar situation with some success. By that, enough was accomplished to make the annoying parent stop.
I went to the kid.
I just talked to him. I told him the real situation, and how his parent was effecting me, and my coaching position. My athlete was very apologetic and spoke to his parent (mother), and I never heard anything again, and, ironically, the kid totally quit the sport the next year because " he really didn't want to do all those miles (weekly) again.."
Try talking to the kid. Be honest and not confronting.
* affecting, not effecting
and his quitting does not represent irony in any way.
Not Cool Bro wrote:
14:15 as your 5th man is freaking good.
Kid hasn't run 14:15. Dad *think's* the kid is good for 14:15 come track season. If they gave away scholarships based on parental predictions, I'd have gone D1 instead of DIII.
Now you are on message boards talking shit about the Dad, yes? Seems like you should favor the kid just out of sheer compatibility with his father.
Deal with the kid independent of the father. Do you have behavioral ground rules? Parental rules? If so, enforce them. If not, consider developing them.
I personally prefer to only reward kids with good (or on the way to good) attitudes. I'd make a lousy D1 football coach.
Guy Who Ran D1 & is now a Dad wrote:
WTF does the dad have to do with anything? His son is a damn 20-year-old man. Dad needs to get a life. Ignore the dad and let him talk crap on message boards, who cares. Deal with the kid and let him improve as much as possible. Maybe give him a time to hit for money (can you do that?).
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Guy Who Ran D1 & is now a Dad wrote:
WTF does the dad have to do with anything? His son is a damn 20-year-old man. Dad needs to get a life. Ignore the dad and let him talk crap on message boards, who cares. Deal with the kid and let him improve as much as possible. Maybe give him a time to hit for money (can you do that?).
Dad is probably paying for the kid's education. If his son is busting his tail as a walk-on and scores for the school, of course Dad is going to want his college expenses reduced. Otherwise, the school is just taking advantage of the walk-on.
Inquiring Coach wrote:
He scored at our conference meet but we are pretty much the worst team in our conference so that isn't saying much.
The kid placed at conference, and you have the worse team.
So the kid's the best runner on your team?
Give him a scholarship.
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