The local high school by my house has a pretty successful softball team, well they are D-3 and play teams that average 12U travel teams would crush. they have one good team in their league that they battle with for first place every year. Some of the other teams have pitchers that will roll the ball half of the time. They have won league almost every year that these two guys have coached. I think that the two coaches have been there for around 28 years.
Softball has passed them by, they have no clue about bats, gloves, or cleats or how to make the players want to be there. The reason I am writing this is because I want your opinion. These 2 guys verbally abuse their players every day of the week. I will give you a few things that have been said and done, you let me know what you think should happen to coaches.
Besides girls telling the coaches their arm hurts and they continue to make them practice to the point that one girl ended up in a cast. When the coaches were confronted by the parents he blamed the girl, lying and saying that she never told him, but the truth was he just kept telling her ice it on the way home. How about hitting a girl fly balls in the infield over and over again, one of his players he was mad at so she would have to run through a puddle of muddy water that was on the field from the rain. Okay not so bad yet, what about putting your catcher at SS in practice because she said that her knees hurt and hitting her ground balls as hard as he could hit them to the point that she wanted to quit. She is a 18 Gold player with a D-1 scholarship. Still think well they are not to bad. How about telling a big girl on the team that since she is so slow maybe they should put a refrigerator at first base full of food to make her run faster. Did I get your attention? He tells the other girls that other players on the team are tramps, fat, waste of space, good for nothing, I can go on.
He has sent his best players home crying day after day but no one wants to challenge him because he has been their so long the school and him deny anything brought up and then he takes it out on the kids at practice.
These two guys have two gold pitchers on their team that would be their 3rd and 4th hitter. They do not get to hit because they are pitchers, old school fools. Instead he hits a girl that can't hit because he promised her dad playing time.
If the girls all went in as a group the coaches would be fired but they are afraid because they have seen what he does to kids that parents complain. I have no kids at this school but I have friends that do. This is only a very brief detail about what these guys have done. They have both said terrible thing to their players about other players and people in the community and year after year get away with it...
BTW they won CIF about 20 years ago now they get smoked in playoffs in the first or second round
sorry this is so scrambled I was working and typing and answering phone calls all at the same time, I don't feel like taking the time to go over it.
