Need Advice Coach Won't Pull his Kid

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But it doesn’t. Can’t even begin to illuminate you on how many pro or college players had a parent coach. Here is one for you to chew you. The freshman starting QB for Auburn University. His daddy coached him thru High School, where were you to complain when that went on?

Exceptions to the rule. Youth sports is littered with bad parent coaches; bad for their kids, bad for other team members. At the lowest levels parent volunteer coaches are a necessity but they should have some degree of training and actually played the sport. Moving up the ladder and especially once you start paying some serious $$, they should be paid professionals. If a parent wants to coach for their kids' club that's fine, as long as they are just as qualified as all the other coaches and don't coach their own kid. Good parent coaches are rare - too often they will either favor their kid or be too hard on their kid to avoid looking like they favor their kid. It will almost always bring up questions of favoritism from parents. Clubs should question if the political headaches are worth it.

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Exceptions to the rule. Youth sports is littered with bad parent coaches; bad for their kids, bad for other team members. At the lowest levels parent volunteer coaches are a necessity but they should have some degree of training and actually played the sport. Moving up the ladder and especially once you start paying some serious $$, they should be paid professionals. If a parent wants to coach for their kids' club that's fine, as long as they are just as qualified as all the other coaches and don't coach their own kid. Good parent coaches are rare - too often they will either favor their kid or be too hard on their kid to avoid looking like they favor their kid. It will almost always bring up questions of favoritism from parents. Clubs should question if the political headaches are worth it.

Of course there are exceptions, my point exactly. One size doesn’t not fit all.

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Of course there are exceptions, my point exactly. One size doesn’t not fit all.

No you said nothing about exceptions. Your post made it sound like parent coaches can crank out college athletes

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My advice if you like the team otherwise is just to STAY QUIET and let the chips fall. When the year is out if nothing has changed by then try to find out if he plans on coaching your kid's team again. If the coach isn't going to change than you have a big decision to make at that point.

I'd move to another club next year if nothing changes by then. This crap goes on in every sport, every level of play, etc... The best thing is to avoid it like the plague. At the end of the day some kid will be screwed over and so will the team. Only in a few cases where the kid happens to really be elite will it work out the way it should.

Our first soccer team had a coaches kid. Worse the coach not only favored his kid but the other kids his kid was close friends with. It was utterly ridiculous. And of course his wife was the team manager to boot. Can't fight that. And it got worse and worse in our case as the year went on. For example his kid would be put in as the #8 and he'd sit up top like he was a winger, not run, etc... and then get rewarded with more playing time. It was so annoying. Worse I think our coach near the end of the year didn't even care about coaching the team anymore as he was more concerned about developing his kid.

Lucky for us the coach left the club with his kid when they moved out of town. Boy did we get lucky on that one. Try to find a team go play on without a parent coach. That is the best thing you can do.

And if your kid ever goes on to play in college beware the same thing happens on that level also. Make sure the coaching staff has NO kids on the team or it will be a cluster. One of my best friends was really an elite baseball player. Only when he went to college coaches son also played catcher. Kid's baseball career was effectively killed by that. No way he was ever going to get to play even though he was super good. Avoid these situations.

It is hard to believe that clubs still allow this. FKK was always the worst and now Rush has created a complete mess with Daddy coaches. There is zero reason to have any coach with a kid on the team unless you're at the Y.

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It is hard to believe that clubs still allow this. FKK was always the worst and now Rush has created a complete mess with Daddy coaches. There is zero reason to have any coach with a kid on the team unless you're at the Y.

But it doesn’t. Can’t even begin to illuminate you on how many pro or college players had a parent coach. Here is one for you to chew you. The freshman starting QB for Auburn University. His daddy coached him thru High School, where were you to complain when that went on?

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But it doesn’t. Can’t even begin to illuminate you on how many pro or college players had a parent coach. Here is one for you to chew you. The freshman starting QB for Auburn University. His daddy coached him thru High School, where were you to complain when that went on?

Just being real, but his dad/coach seemingly had reason to play him... he has talent. Coaches kids in FL youth soccer rarely have talent anything even remotely close to that guy.