08-06-2009, 06:20 PM
Kermitt,
I am sorry to upset you. I am sorry to disrupt the natural order of things, it is much easier to sit back and wish.
I will try to address this line by line, without making a novel out of this.
We will set aside the crying kids later.
Lets talk about a camp for a moment. From what I have seen from the athletics website, there were 46 or so playing softball for the high school last year. 14 varsity, 14 jv, and 18 Freshman. From that maybe 6 varsity played summer ball, don't think any played travel from jv, but for the sake of argument, lets say 1 or 2. The Freshman team had 1 player that I know of that played. Let it also be known that when I was on speaking terms that I requested from the staff to facilitate a 16U team and coach kids that wanted to play, but was unable to assemble enough on my own. Everyone was busy, but would try to make some games this summer. I didn't see anyone from the high school staff at any of the games our team had. There was no interest. So now lets look at the numbers. 46 players maybe 10 played travel, I think my numbers are high. 6 graduated, so doing math 25% of the high school squad played travel. Now lets speak of 30 young ladies that could have learned the fundamentals of softball at a camp. This could have been a great oppertunity to work with less experienced athletes, and compliment the entire organization. We could talk about my discussion with the high school coach that there was nothing and my disgust.He decided to schedule a one day camp. I had many future Waukegan Softball players on my team that would have gladly participated in a summer softball camp. I would have been sure to pay this from our team funds.
I co -created the program I am now participating in. I asked for my girls to participate in this program you speak of, but we were denied because of parental involvement. (By the way, more than 90% of teams in this area are coached by parents.) We supported them at every oppertunity, when we were participating,( made sure we played in the same tournaments as this group you spoke of), in the same tournaments. That is so five years ago....
I agree with you with everything you mention about this good man, with one exception, the tirelessly part.
Here comes the disturbing part of your post,
"Instead you are slandering a college educated professional who has worked tirelessly to EARN his position! This head caoch has an undergrduate degree, a masters degree and is a certified coach. He is very knowledgeable with the sports he coaches and has always been an very upstanding man!"
Slander is an untruthful oral (spoken) statement about a person that harms the person's reputation or standing in the community.
I can substantiate any arguement made about this very good man. Your words are actually slanderous to me.
County Mounty,
You words are slanderous to the ," "friend" uses his positon to get his son in as coach. Everyone knows this is whats happening! Bad..Bad..Bad politics if you ask me."
You use words against a trusted friend and confidant, without a clue. There is no interest in that position by anyone I know, especially me.
Shawn
I am sorry to upset you. I am sorry to disrupt the natural order of things, it is much easier to sit back and wish.
I will try to address this line by line, without making a novel out of this.
We will set aside the crying kids later.
Lets talk about a camp for a moment. From what I have seen from the athletics website, there were 46 or so playing softball for the high school last year. 14 varsity, 14 jv, and 18 Freshman. From that maybe 6 varsity played summer ball, don't think any played travel from jv, but for the sake of argument, lets say 1 or 2. The Freshman team had 1 player that I know of that played. Let it also be known that when I was on speaking terms that I requested from the staff to facilitate a 16U team and coach kids that wanted to play, but was unable to assemble enough on my own. Everyone was busy, but would try to make some games this summer. I didn't see anyone from the high school staff at any of the games our team had. There was no interest. So now lets look at the numbers. 46 players maybe 10 played travel, I think my numbers are high. 6 graduated, so doing math 25% of the high school squad played travel. Now lets speak of 30 young ladies that could have learned the fundamentals of softball at a camp. This could have been a great oppertunity to work with less experienced athletes, and compliment the entire organization. We could talk about my discussion with the high school coach that there was nothing and my disgust.He decided to schedule a one day camp. I had many future Waukegan Softball players on my team that would have gladly participated in a summer softball camp. I would have been sure to pay this from our team funds.
I co -created the program I am now participating in. I asked for my girls to participate in this program you speak of, but we were denied because of parental involvement. (By the way, more than 90% of teams in this area are coached by parents.) We supported them at every oppertunity, when we were participating,( made sure we played in the same tournaments as this group you spoke of), in the same tournaments. That is so five years ago....
I agree with you with everything you mention about this good man, with one exception, the tirelessly part.
Here comes the disturbing part of your post,
"Instead you are slandering a college educated professional who has worked tirelessly to EARN his position! This head caoch has an undergrduate degree, a masters degree and is a certified coach. He is very knowledgeable with the sports he coaches and has always been an very upstanding man!"
Slander is an untruthful oral (spoken) statement about a person that harms the person's reputation or standing in the community.
I can substantiate any arguement made about this very good man. Your words are actually slanderous to me.
County Mounty,
You words are slanderous to the ," "friend" uses his positon to get his son in as coach. Everyone knows this is whats happening! Bad..Bad..Bad politics if you ask me."
You use words against a trusted friend and confidant, without a clue. There is no interest in that position by anyone I know, especially me.
Shawn