08-12-2009, 02:57 AM
Mr. White,
Let me paint a picture for you: (the people in this paragraph have absolutely no resemblance to real people...none what so ever, i promise) A 14u coach wants to continue coaching the kids into high school and hes related to a school board member. The director of the second-rate travel program in which this 14u team plays is a bit thirsty and delusional in how much juice he has with the locals, so he attempts a coup in which a perfectly good varsity softball coach is thrust under the microscope. Emails are sent out, meetings are attended, message boards are trolled...all under the guise of improving the varsity softball program.
This is all just fiction, of course...and has nothing to do with you.
I find your reasons for the replacement of the coach ridiculous. Summer programs take a few years to establish (it took boys baseball 3-4 years to really gain momentum and a few years after that to be reflected in the win/loss record) You also humbly request that the softball team compete for state championships. Good luck with that. Competing for those starts at age 8 or 9, so I hope you did your "job"....and judging by your travel program's record, you haven't. Your title IX arguments are also invalid, as gender quality in sports is not measured by win/loss records, rather the distribution of funds and choices. You want the best possible education for your children, sports and academically, and everyone understands that. But you're teaching them a hell of a lesson by playing politics with a mans livelihood.
The next time you want to get a good man fired, do it anonymously.
Let me paint a picture for you: (the people in this paragraph have absolutely no resemblance to real people...none what so ever, i promise) A 14u coach wants to continue coaching the kids into high school and hes related to a school board member. The director of the second-rate travel program in which this 14u team plays is a bit thirsty and delusional in how much juice he has with the locals, so he attempts a coup in which a perfectly good varsity softball coach is thrust under the microscope. Emails are sent out, meetings are attended, message boards are trolled...all under the guise of improving the varsity softball program.
This is all just fiction, of course...and has nothing to do with you.
I find your reasons for the replacement of the coach ridiculous. Summer programs take a few years to establish (it took boys baseball 3-4 years to really gain momentum and a few years after that to be reflected in the win/loss record) You also humbly request that the softball team compete for state championships. Good luck with that. Competing for those starts at age 8 or 9, so I hope you did your "job"....and judging by your travel program's record, you haven't. Your title IX arguments are also invalid, as gender quality in sports is not measured by win/loss records, rather the distribution of funds and choices. You want the best possible education for your children, sports and academically, and everyone understands that. But you're teaching them a hell of a lesson by playing politics with a mans livelihood.
The next time you want to get a good man fired, do it anonymously.