chatter from the Library Monkey

Coaching the coach

Did another baseball practice — talking to the coach afterwards made me so mad. Not at the coach, but it is yet another thing my school does badly. I asked him about three questions each of them met with a sad answer that showed the unsupportive nature of my school.

When you have a home game (and our season starts at home) you have to give the umpires a voucher to fill out; two new baseballs; and a scorecard with your players on it. The voucher is so the umps can get paid, the balls for the game and the score card is in triplicate so you can give one to the umpire, one to the other team and one to keep. On the score card is your starting lineup, there is space underneath each player for subs and at the bottom is where all the future subs are listed.

No one has told him about any of these. I am not surprised, no one told me about any of these things when I coached softball. The difference, I asked. I asked several times. I had to ask if I could have a team hat — they gave me an old crappy hat. I know because the gym coach told me how he was buying expensive hats for the varsity team (not for the chump softball coach). I asked about what I needed to know several times and each time I got little bits and drabs.

This coach is now one day from his first game and he doesn’t have all the equipment he needs — the team doesn’t have helmets. I don’t know how a team can be prepared to bat if they don’t practice in the equipment they need.

when I coached I asked to have a coach meeting to separate out equipment and no one from the athletic department showed up. I talked to the varsity softball coach and he told me the stuff I had in a bag I could keep, then the varsity girls stole it. And when I caught them doing it and told their coach, nothing was done about it.

What is really bad is how bad the lower level coaches are at my school and seemingly they are receiving no assistance.

The Tigers win their second in a row. The hitting came alive and it all looks good.

Well too scattered

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