Team California Demarini Falling Apart?

[Sftball Junkie]

Huh Do Ya Think???

OK For those of you who need to read the directions on the back of the shampoo bottle to understand how to use it....


Hmm.... Why did the stellar athletes coach the 12s team??? Why did the free ride go to the 12s team??? Mr Eaton has a 12 year old 99 birth date DD??? Really??? I wonder why the charity would care who is playing???

Mr Eaton the Head of CYPC The Guy Paying the Staff and the Bills (The Charity) Has a DD on the team.. DD is not seeing the playing time he feels the DD should get, We now have a "philosophical differences of opinion".

I guess going forward we will see how many are there for the coaches vs the money when Eaton starts his team.

This Charity is so cool tho.. The kids who benefit are so underprivileged that their parents roll up to the games in their BMW's and Land Rovers. I hope I can help the less fortunate youth someday as well

"Wet head, Open bottle, Put shampoo in hand, Place hands on head, Move hands in circular motion, Rinse and repeat as necessary"

[CPYC]

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[onlooker]

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[joemcq51]

CPYC- Sounds like you are working really hard to get your program going strong. Whatever the reasons, a team without fees is going to leave some people with hard feelings. Maybe their kid didn't make the team. Maybe a kid they know didn't make the team. My only advice would be to avoid going on a public forum and trying to defend your program. There really is nothing positive that can come of it for you. Nobody here really knows the whats and whys of your program. Good luck.

[CPYC]

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[Sftball Junkie]

I love your not defending yourself post!!! I don't think anyone ever asked If you paid for your kids fees... I don't remember anyone asking about the funding of your 12s, 14s or 16's team either. This might surprise you as well but most coaches including myself when coaching years back will spend $$$ out of their own pocket..

The comment was basically if the girls want to stick with the real coaches how do they cover the salary. Gotta remember most of these girls left great teams with the hopes of playing for great coaches that would get them to an even better level.

I like your comments Below

Our knowledge and experience is that ALL kids with unsupervised free time can be "at risk" People with BMW's tend to have kids who become "at risk."
Really?? What kid on any of your teams had unsupervised free time. They were all at practice, private lessons and TB tournaments prior to you rescuing them from the bored em and neglect they had to endure.

Come spend some time at the rehab Center / Youth Group home I work in and you can find out what an "at risk youth" is. The ones who spend 30+ hours a week doing softball, enrolled in private lessons weekly and played on the most competitive programs out there, are far from youth left alone waiting to get high and looking to rob the corner store. If you want to do something for real "At Risk Youth" Put a program together for kids who would love the chance to play travel ball as most of our kids have but can't afford it or have parents who won't spend the time to get involved. I agree $$$ does not mean you wont be "At Risk" I will say however the "At Risk" you speak of are not out playing travel ball whether its Softball, Soccer, Basketball, Baseball etc...To play at this level your parents invest way to much time for you to be considered unsupervised..

[onlooker]

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[SoftballSoccerDad]

The 12's were originally the only team CPYC was going to produce. We are not the sponsor, we are the program and will continue to be without the current coaches of the 12 year olds. This is why the team had most of the expenses paid for. Coach Klein asked Coach Topping to help her. The 16's were created when Coach Granger agreed to coach a team. A budget and future fundraising opportunities were being put into place to cover that team's expenses. The 14's were created by Coach Sylvan and he has always charged his parents for their kids to play, simply because he wanted to be a part of the organization. He was never promised anything different but we have been able to assist with some smaller expenses for the 14's. The only person being compensated for anything is Coach Klein who was hired to create and run the entire softball program for CPYC.I assure you she is not getting rich off it. Nobody else has been paid a dime. In fact, Coach Granger has come out of her pocket to assist kids when needed so they could continue to play. This has happened throughout the years because she is a kind person. Michele Granger is as stellar an athlete if not more of a stellar athlete than anybody associated with us and she coaches 16's , not 12's. Mr. Eaton went to his Board of Directors and volunteered to pay out of his pocket for his daughter;s expenses to play on this team. This was specifically done to avoid a conflict of interest. Mr. Eaton's daughter has not benefitted personally from any money raised for softball. Oh, yea, and CPYC targets "at risk" youth, not necessarily "underprivledged youth." Our knolwedge and experience is that ALL kids with unsupervised free time can be "at risk". People with BMW's tend to have kids who become "at risk." You really should help the less fortunate mr. junkie. You will feel good about yourself and you may spend less time typing away on Heybucket and more time making the world a better place. Through our numerous programs State wide (softball just being one of them), we reach out to tens of thousands of "at risk" kids, some who are underprivledged, some who are overly privledged, all in need of positive role models and productive activities. Some times adults don;t always see eye to eye on things and the mission of the organization gets compromised. Better to break early then to waste a lot of unnessary time and energy. All of these girls will have a choice to make at the end of the Fall Season. BUt they will have legitimate choices to make. Thanks for getting us back in the Bucket. I was missing all the wrong gossip. Chris Eaton (By The way, why am I the only one who signs his name to these). I'd like to know who has such strong opinions about people they likely don;t know very well.

Thanks for confirming that the existing 12u team is leaving your organization. Sometimes things just don't work out. You're right that kids from well-off families can go bad.

[SoftballSoccerDad]

The comment was basically if the girls want to stick with the real coaches how do they cover the salary. Gotta remember most of these girls left great teams with the hopes of playing for great coaches that would get them to an even better level to have you pull the carpet out 2 tourneys in when things are not going your way.

I really like this one tho.
Some times adults don;t always see eye to eye on things and the mission of the organization gets compromised.

Somewhere in the Mission Statement it must say: If my daughter rides pine I no longer have a need for your services and once we go our separate ways I will tell everyone I think the other coaches were much better athlete's and coaches then you were anyhow.

More people would respect you if you simply stated the fact, I found away to ensure my kid is on one of the best teams in the area by buying one.

This statement and the onlooker post are bordering on picking on the kid and that's not really fair. All she's doing is going out and playing softball.

Two tournaments where the team has done WELL is a really small sample size. Whether Chris intended it or not, for him to state that CYPC is dumping the team so quickly does cause one to wonder about some of the rumors floating around. The question: why would a sponsor care at all or have ANY say in how an elite team is managed? From my lofty perch here in the gutter, this one isn't passing the smell test.

[CPYC]

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