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I pulled a Jim Mora last night!

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Okay, most here know I coach a lot of sports. Right now I'm coaching both an 8th and 4th grade Travel girls basketball team. Both teams are doing great and are in 1st place in the divisions.

Well, last night I take my 4th grade team (11-3) into Pequannock (1-9). We average about 25 points game, well we lost 10-8 in overtime. It was like the girls never saw a basketball before. I was very upset, but kept my cool. After the game I get the girls in the corner and say look, that team did not beat us, we beat ourselves. We will have practice Monday and Thursday evening.

Well this one girl says but I have dance on thursday (Which is our practice night) and two others say we do also.

My response? DANCE? DANCE? YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT DANCE???????

I didn't even notice I said it until my assistant called my cell on the way home and said dude, you looked and sounded like Jim Mora. PLAYOFFS? PLAYOFF???
 
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I wish I could have seen that.

Greg, I really have no idea how you do it. My best friend is a JV HS girls basketball coach. I catch a game here and there, and I can barely take it from the stands.
All the emotion. I just couldn't communicate with them without losing my patience.

I watch them have emotional meltdowns and I can't help but think of Jack Nicholson's character in As Good as It Gets when a woman asks him how he writes women characters so well. His response: "I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability. "

You deserve a medal. :beer1:
 
I just got a mom's e-mail telling me they really need to get to dance class.

My response was as follows.

I can understand your daughters need to get to dance class. But you need to understand my need for your daughter to be at my practice. You have complained about your daughters playing time in the past, yet your daughter misses every Thursday's practice. Come game time she does not know any of the offensive or defensive plays, therefore her playing time suffers greatly.

I understand its a tough thing for children and parents at this age to decide what they want to do. But you also need to understand I have 13 girls on this team. I have 12 that show up to the practices, so its only fair that they get the minutes. The choice is all yours, but remember you made the choice.
 
NJFINSFAN1 said:
I just got a mom's e-mail telling me they really need to get to dance class.

My response was as follows.

I can understand your daughters need to get to dance class. But you need to understand my need for your daughter to be at my practice. You have complained about your daughters playing time in the past, yet your daughter misses every Thursday's practice. Come game time she does not know any of the offensive or defensive plays, therefore her playing time suffers greatly.

I understand its a tough thing for children and parents at this age to decide what they want to do. But you also need to understand I have 13 girls on this team. I have 12 that show up to the practices, so its only fair that they get the minutes. The choice is all yours, but remember you made the choice.
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finswin56 said:
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I wish I could have seen that.

Greg, I really have no idea how you do it. My best friend is a JV HS girls basketball coach. I catch a game here and there, and I can barely take it from the stands.
All the emotion. I just couldn't communicate with them without losing my patience.

I watch them have emotional meltdowns and I can't help but think of Jack Nicholson's character in As Good as It Gets when a woman asks him how he writes women characters so well. His response: "I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability. "

You deserve a medal. :beer1:
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Hilarious, God bless you for your patience with these girls. I wouldn't have it I can tell you, which is why I never coached any of my daughter's teams, and never will.
 
Phinswin thinks of Nicholson, I was thinking of Tom Hanks in "A League of their Own." "Crying? There's no crying in baseball!" Dancing? There's no dancing in basketball!
 
Ohiophinphan said:
Phinswin thinks of Nicholson, I was thinking of Tom Hanks in "A League of their Own." "Crying? There's no crying in baseball!" Dancing? There's no dancing in basketball!
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:lol: I thought of that one too, but some of these girls were past the point of crying. They couldn't even speak. Total meltdown.
 
finswin56 said:
:lol: I thought of that one too, but some of these girls were past the point of crying. They couldn't even speak. Total meltdown.
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Nothing like a child's innocence to make a grown up feel like a real jerk is there?

That said I would agree that if the Mom wants her kid to play then the kid needs to practice. Mom is doing the kid no good service by putting her into too many things
 
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