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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 659591, member: 40"]
I used to work for a company in Syracuse that sponsored a summer youth football instruction camp [had nothing to do with our business]. The kids were divided up into a range of age groups that I believe were 7-8 year olds, 9-10 year olds, 11-12 year olds, and 13-14 year olds. We hosted the camp at an area high school and there were SU players also there, to help run them through drills.
 
I got stuck 'head coaching' a 7-8 year old team--which really meant that I was responsible for herding the kids from station to station, where they received instruction and did drills for each position from the SU players, and babysitting them at lunch to make sure they stayed together in a group. On the afternoon of the last day of the camp, they did scrimmages.
 
One of the parents was the 'head coach' of a 13-14 year old team, with a kid who became a decent HS quarterback later on. When his kid's team lost their scrimmage, the two head coaches got in a screaming match--and mind you, these were co-workers--about the scrimmage rules after one team won on the final play, that ended up with the two men in a fist fight in the middle of the field. And that wasn't even high school team or any meaningful game, this was at a dopey camp.
 
It was a stark reminder about how parents often lose perspective when it comes to youth athletics.
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