Sunday, October 07, 2007
Understanding life.
It is Sunday morning and this weekend has been another packed one. It started with the football game on Friday night. We played Shelbyville, a regional must win. We won the game, but our family lost. Once again, our son was yanked, pulled, yelled at, and thus never given another chance to play defense. He gave up a 5 yard pass in the flats, something the coach said to do in practice that week, and he was immediately pulled from the game and blessed out. I am so tired of inconsistent coaching and emotional outbursts from men who cannot handle the stress of competition. It is an embarrassment to themselves. We watched our team run defense with only 10 players on the field not once but twice. We watched other players miss their assignment, yet NEVER were pulled out for instruction or repremand. Maybe you think I am an embittered parent. You can call me whatever, but I believe in fairness. I believe in composure, control, leadership. Something that is missing from the sidelines. My husband's uncle attended our football game to watch our daughter cheer and our son play. He certainly knows something about the game and he asked my husband if we had said something about our son's treatment on the team. My husband told him no as if we do our son will be punished for not speaking up first. His response was disbelief. "I would ask the coach, does my son give you trouble, does my son have a bad attitude, does my son not know his assignment? A parent should be allowed to ask these questions without repremand." It was difficult to watch each defensive series continue without our son. We felt his hurt and frustration. Coaches are human. They make mistakes. I am tired of our son taking the fall, every time on defense, for coaching errors and other "favored players mistakes." I remember when a coach told my son he wasn't famous. He was a player just like everyone else. His name didn't mean anything to him. Funny, our name hasn't been a problem for anyone BUT coaches and we would love our son to receive the same treatment.
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