08-13-2009, 11:01 PM
OMG!! I just got home from my summer job. Swright11, I really appreciate everything you said. You make some good points. I swore I knew who you were. Now I do. You were good and had a mean bat. I remember you womping the ball. Anyway, it looks like you got his âgood sideâ when he was Assistant coaching. Could it be possible that heâs different when heâs Head coaching? Are you open to that idea? I have to cut him some slack because maybe he had things going on in his life that were bugging him out like a new marriage, new baby, new head coaching job? My mom says stress sometimes makes people act funny and relationships sometimes start nice and then they go sour sometimes like a bad marriage. People change. So maybe he had had a reason to make us feel bad. But I can promise you I know what I felt & I know what all my friends felt too. And like I said, maybe its coincidence. I donât think so. And I think you might have been coached good back then too. I can tell you what we did in our practices, and it wasnât being coached well. I donât even want to go there because I can write for days and I donât want to say more bad stuff about Coach. I just want him to prove ppl wrong.
Iâm young and I donât know a lot, but Iâm not dumb. I know youâre not saying Iâm dumb, but TRUST me, I know when somebody is yelling AT me & criticizing ME as a person. Thereâs a difference. You know it too. I wonder if an adult coach who is supposed to be in charge with development of HS kids is supposed to understand how he deals with people and that everyone takes it different. Donât they teach that? Doesn't he have a lot of college degrees? Even if he didnât mean to be like that, isnât it smart to try to avoid that? And we did try to talk to coach, but you can't talk to him. He's not open to talking. MAybe he tries to be the bad guy now when hes coaching. Idk.
Also, why would he tell the newspaper that one of my teammates has nobody behind her? That we all let her down? That was printed in the newspaper. Donât you think that made us sad? Mad? And embarrassed? He didnât even apologize to us. Please open yourself to the idea that he might be a different person in different situations and in front of different ppl. But the newspaper definitely knew what he said. He also told that to our faces. Imagine when you were playing if coach shane told the paper you didnât back up niko or Re and if he told ppl there was no talent on the team. that wouldnât be kool. right? That doesnât motivate us. We worked hard for him. I havenât seen you at our games, i donkt think. You must be in college & working. Also a bunch of us were playing in different states in the country, so you couldnât see them. But we do have talent on our team. To say we donât win games because we donât have any good players is just plain wrong. Wouldnât you agree? If we were all basic players, ok, donât give us props for nothing. But a bunch of our team play travel all over the country. Even an OK coach can do something with that. And if there aint no talent, then whose job is it to make sure we are trained well? But we do have talent. I think to know what is truly going on, you have to talk with current players and players who quit. Not just a few who love him. Talk to the rest of the team who play NOW. Because he may have been a nice guy in the past. I feel like Iâm watching the History channel on tv when they talk about the good things he did in the past.
Swright11, youâre right about going far for preseason games. We donât have money. Waukegan is broke. Tru. Tru. I bet thatâs just a fantasy of mine. Maybe the boosters can help us out. Idk. I look up to you and I respect your opinion. I hope you can respect mine. Maybe you will be coaching us girls in the future? That could be kool. Good night swright11.
Iâm young and I donât know a lot, but Iâm not dumb. I know youâre not saying Iâm dumb, but TRUST me, I know when somebody is yelling AT me & criticizing ME as a person. Thereâs a difference. You know it too. I wonder if an adult coach who is supposed to be in charge with development of HS kids is supposed to understand how he deals with people and that everyone takes it different. Donât they teach that? Doesn't he have a lot of college degrees? Even if he didnât mean to be like that, isnât it smart to try to avoid that? And we did try to talk to coach, but you can't talk to him. He's not open to talking. MAybe he tries to be the bad guy now when hes coaching. Idk.
Also, why would he tell the newspaper that one of my teammates has nobody behind her? That we all let her down? That was printed in the newspaper. Donât you think that made us sad? Mad? And embarrassed? He didnât even apologize to us. Please open yourself to the idea that he might be a different person in different situations and in front of different ppl. But the newspaper definitely knew what he said. He also told that to our faces. Imagine when you were playing if coach shane told the paper you didnât back up niko or Re and if he told ppl there was no talent on the team. that wouldnât be kool. right? That doesnât motivate us. We worked hard for him. I havenât seen you at our games, i donkt think. You must be in college & working. Also a bunch of us were playing in different states in the country, so you couldnât see them. But we do have talent on our team. To say we donât win games because we donât have any good players is just plain wrong. Wouldnât you agree? If we were all basic players, ok, donât give us props for nothing. But a bunch of our team play travel all over the country. Even an OK coach can do something with that. And if there aint no talent, then whose job is it to make sure we are trained well? But we do have talent. I think to know what is truly going on, you have to talk with current players and players who quit. Not just a few who love him. Talk to the rest of the team who play NOW. Because he may have been a nice guy in the past. I feel like Iâm watching the History channel on tv when they talk about the good things he did in the past.
Swright11, youâre right about going far for preseason games. We donât have money. Waukegan is broke. Tru. Tru. I bet thatâs just a fantasy of mine. Maybe the boosters can help us out. Idk. I look up to you and I respect your opinion. I hope you can respect mine. Maybe you will be coaching us girls in the future? That could be kool. Good night swright11.