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Message: [QUOTE="PhatOrange, post: 1184701, member: 229"] I've been involved in youth sports for the past 5 years and they've jaded me to the point that I almost want nothing to do with them but have to stay involved to look out for my kids because there's so much self promotion, favoritism and politics going on. It's sickening. (and I've seen happen what you're experiencing. A youth lax club team in Albany formed because one parent didn't like the other parent running the Colonie program. So he took a bunch of kids and broke off. NY Tech Valley.) When my kid was 7 and 8 he played pop warner football and it was the worst experience of my life as well as his. He hates football now and will never play again all because these @sshole coaches treated a 7 year old kid like he was in the Marine Corp. Give me a break. Not only that, but he practiced 12 hours a week to only play 5 snaps a game. Let me say that again. 5 snaps . Because that was the minimum requirement. At several points I would have come to blows if I wasn't talked off the ledge, but the treatment of my 7 YEAR OLD who'd never played football before and was there to have fun and learn was appalling to say the least. A year later I ended having words with one of those coaches on a lacrosse field over a 3rd/4th grade team, and we were both coaches. Nothing I'm proud (because at that moment I was one of 'those' people), but the mentality of some of these guys who think they're coaches pushes my buttons and when you throw in the fact that they're only out for their own kids it makes my head explode, and I'd had enough of this dude's bullsht and his treatment of the kids. Lacrosse is a whole 'nother animal. I live in an area - as you do - where NOBODY has ever played the game. So I coach and I have a dam good team of 5th and 6th graders (15-2-2 last year) and the first thing i say to the kids before and after practice is "are we having fun". I don't favor my own kid or my friends kids. I coach to win but I want them to have fun doing it. I play every kid in practice and games - almost equally - regardless of score and ability. But you know what? My team still wins because my worst kids end up getting better. In 4 years I've not received one complaint from a parent and trust me, pt is usually the #1 complaint. You'd think playing every kid at that age (10/11) would be the norm but it's not. I see teams we're playing against, particularly teams gunning for us and their best kids dont leave the field. Kids are treated like they're playing varsity. You know I know my sht on the lax field and I've still got parents who've never played the game trying to muscle me out so they can take over, trying to get their claws into it so they can promote their kids. Mind boggling. [/QUOTE]

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