I worked with a guy who coached a year of flag football and he was
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complaining after one of their games because the league had 30 minutes of practice, then the games, and like the fourth week they played some team that beat them 42-28 and they only ran 6 plays on offense. Turned out their entire playbook was gadget plays and they scored every play in that game. Dude was absolutely livid.  Previous Message
and rec is left with parent volunteer coaches who probably never even played the sport and the kids are often very beginner level. There is a sliding scale of bad based on the motor skill needs of the sport (basketball being the worst and a complete foul & double dribble fest at the rec level).
We really end up with the worst case scenario with the current state of rec and club kids sports. Youth sports should be focused solely on skill development and love of the game. Instead we get little skill development in rec leagues and just pure money extraction in club leagues.
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 Was this wrong? - Lexillini June 4, 2025, 9:28:48
- Kids sports are terrible for the most part. * - haighter June 4, 2025, 10:19:06
- Strongly disagree - bigbop85 June 4, 2025, 22:48:52
- That’s kinda the point- biggest lesson is there is always someone better - groupguy June 4, 2025, 15:43:15
- our daughter played volleyball for years... mostly at the same club - Giant Dong June 4, 2025, 12:50:56
- Agreed. But that's easy for me to say.* - Lexillini June 4, 2025, 11:54:34
- Shut up* - AceFrehley June 4, 2025, 11:43:20
- Not sure if your kids are in any sort of club soccer/ basketball/ travel baseball or not - villain June 4, 2025, 11:07:07
- The most egregious part was the ref ignoring the asshole Coach that hit the player - villain June 4, 2025, 10:15:52
- Wow, reading that thread made me wonder if this dude isn't a bit like - fratstud June 4, 2025, 9:45:39
- Poor sumbitch - groupguy June 4, 2025, 9:42:06
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