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Parents Unhappy With Coach's Closed Practices, Use Of Roster
Parents of players on the Shabbona (Ill.) seventh-grade boys basketball team are not pleased with the practices of the coach, Robert Koskosky. They are upset that he has closed practices where they cannot even peek at their children through a door and that he is the only coach in the league not playing every player. The parents are looking for the school district to intervene.
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/2015535,4_1_JO28_MOCOACH_S1-100128.article
COMMENTS: 6
Banning Parents from practice
Posted from: Matt Quinn, 11/19/10 at 8:24 AM CST
Sorry, but a middle school coach doers not have the right to close his prcatices to parents and to the public when he is working at a public school.
Closed Practices
Posted from: reg, 11/9/10 at 3:34 PM CST
In this day and time, with all of the accusations flying around, there needs to be a compromise between parents and coaches. Playing time is not the only thing parents think about. Just imagine a 11 year old girl being coached by men with no women around. this a potential problem. some parents are not at that comfort level. Think about it. Get over it I think not
Everyone gets a trophy
Posted from: Jim Yu, 2/4/10 at 10:22 PM CST
I had to resign from a coaching job this year. 7th grade girls level B team for this same reason. Apparently, this middle school league is run by the Sports and Rec Dept. and not the school. Therefore, it is a league run by mostly parents. And of course, every kid is supposed to play a minimum of 1 quarter, which I abided by. The first game (and my last game) I coached, the league's director, my boss came to watch my game with a stopwatch to measure every minute of playing time for each kid. I have never seen this level of micromanagement of coaches, or any field or any industry for that matter. To put a long story short, I was asked to resign because every kid was not given equal minutes. What was really put me over the edge was that there were no parameters (rewards or consquences) if a kid showed up to practice (a whopping 2 times a week)or not. That's why kids get so behind when they get to high school. It's not the kid who have a hard time adjusting to high school level of competition, it's the parents. By the way this will be my 9th year of coaching, and this season I decided to be a volunteer assistant coach for a girl frosh-soph high school team instead.
Posted from: Diago, 2/4/10 at 3:34 PM CST
It thinks it 's funny how the parent that does the most complaining about a coach, is always the one that has done the least amount of work with their own child and the never played sports. Lol All ways crying but never wants to pay fees, never sends their kid to sports camps, sometimes never even played pass and catch with the kid. They want you to do it so they can complain!
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Posted from: Matt, 2/1/10 at 8:27 AM CST
I think that the coach has the right to close practices. I am a high school head girls basketball coach and all of my practices are closed. The parents don't have a clue what the coaches and the players are trying to accomplish, they only know what they want for their children. They need to back off because when they get to high school it will be even tougher and what about life are they going to hold their childs hand their whole life. Get off the mans back and let him do his job. You go coach.
Posted from: J Lamaster, 1/29/10 at 11:37 AM CST
This is not T Ball where there are no outs and everyone gets to bat. If that is what they are looking for then they need a ymca league or some type of rec league not an organized competative team. I would like to hear the side of the parents whose children get most of the playing time in regards to the coach.
