Thirsty Thursday

RobBase (c) said:
You want to be participation trophy coach, be that guy. You’re not doing anybody any favors.
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It’s mostly the parents. My younger daughters both participate in gymnastics. At most meets, for each of the four events (vault, bars, beam, floor) the top half of the field get a medal (If there are 16 girls, the top eight at each event get a medal). At most meets, for the All-Around all the competitors get a medal. Some don’t do it that way and only give medals to the top half as well. The parents of the 15th place kid routinely gets pissed that their kid didn’t get a medal.

If your kid only beat the girl who had to scratch one or more events, you don’t deserve a medal.
 
RobBase (c) said:
They push them into sports, period. Then when the kid sucks they tell them it’s okay, doesn’t matter. 15 years later they’re taking their 12th “mental day” of the quarter.
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Or have that kid who shines as a 7 year old at RB grow up to be 5'6" and wonder why he isn't winning any more. The whole point of team sports is to learn your job so the team is as good as it can be. You are measuring success by wins and losses whereas I would measure it by improvement.

PS. Every running back should play a quarter each game on the offensive line. He needs to learn that his success relies on others.
 
williewilliejuan said:
It’s mostly the parents. My younger daughters both participate in gymnastics. At most meets, for each of the four events (vault, bars, beam, floor) the top half of the field get a medal (If there are 16 girls, the top eight at each event get a medal). At most meets, for the All-Around all the competitors get a medal. Some don’t do it that way and only give medals to the top half as well. The parents of the 15th place kid routinely gets pissed that their kid didn’t get a medal.

If your kid only beat the girl who had to scratch one or more events, you don’t deserve a medal.
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Great to hear. And you’re a banker, too? That’s interesting.

My daughter is also in gymnastics (twin of my son who plays ball). She’s not at the competitive levels yet but already extremely self-motivated and highly competitive just like her bro. Has a bar in the basement. Trails on her own and everything.
 
RobBase (c) said:
They push them into sports, period. Then when the kid sucks they tell them it’s okay, doesn’t matter. 15 years later they’re taking their 12th “mental day” of the quarter.
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Uh huh

Or the parent keeps trying to spin gold out of straw and making the kid feel like they are a disappointment because they never lived up to what the parent wanted.

Sports are about having fun, not winning and losing.

Sure, wins and loses teach important lessons, but it isn't what it comes down to in the end.
 
RobBase (c) said:
I really don’t understand why you idiots follow me around the board.
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Umm...these are our threads. If you want to follow your buddy Douche somewhere else, feel free
 
Kburjr said:
Or have that kid who shines as a 7 year old at RB grow up to be 5'6" and wonder why he isn't winning any more. The whole point of team sports is to learn your job so the team is as good as it can be. You are measuring success by wins and losses whereas I would measure it by improvement.

PS. Every running back should play a quarter each game on the offensive line. He needs to learn that his success relies on others.
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Realiy great stuff here, learning a lot. Keep it coming.

I’ll continue to obviously teach nothing, nobody will learn anything, and we will never be as good as we can be while still somehow going unbeaten and beating the piss out of everybody.

Really great stuff. Thank you.
 
ill said:
Umm...these are our threads. If you want to follow your buddy Douche somewhere else, feel free
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And take Gigi with you.

Please.
 
Let's put on another repeat. Thanks.
 
RobBase (c) said:
Great to hear. And you’re a banker, too? That’s interesting.

My daughter is also in gymnastics (twin of my son who plays ball). She’s not at the competitive levels yet but already extremely self-motivated and highly competitive just like her bro. Has a bar in the basement. Trails on her own and everything.
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Yep. I manage underwriting and collateral.

My middle daughter is Level 8 and is state champion on floor and vault. Just missed the AA by 0.075. She’s incredibly motivated and trains 32 hours a week. We’re off to regionals in a few weeks. She was a state and regional champion last year.

My youngest daughter is in XCel and does it more recreationally. She’s pretty good as well (she won the AA at her last two meets) but she’s nowhere near as motivated. She trains around 9 hours a week. Her state championships are in about a month.
 
MTVike said:
You know as much about me as you do about coaching.
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Congrats on all of your success posting in the morning threads the past 20 years.
 
RobBase (c) said:
Realiy great stuff here, learning a lot. Keep it coming.

I’ll continue to obviously teach nothing, nobody will learn anything, and we will never be as good as we can be while still somehow going unbeaten and beating the piss out of everybody.

Really great stuff. Thank you.
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Did you teach them how to handle that winning? Did you teach them that the OL is the reason you had room to run? Did you teach them how to respect their opponents?

Good for you that you reached that singular goal of being undefeated.
 
williewilliejuan said:
Yep. I manage underwriting and collateral.

My middle daughter is Level 8 and is state champion on floor and vault. Just missed the AA by 0.075. She’s incredibly motivated and trains 32 hours a week. We’re off to regionals in a few weeks. She was a state and regional champion last year.

My youngest daughter is in XCel and does it more recreationally. She’s pretty good as well (she won the AA at her last two meets) but she’s nowhere near as motivated. She trains around 9 hours a week. Her state championships are in about a month.
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@basement bias is in banking too.

He coaches and his kids play competitive sports too.

Just a connection I just picked up on.
 
Kburjr said:
Did you teach the how to handle that winning? Did you teach them that the OL is the reason you had room to run? Did you teach them how to respect their opponents?
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Duh, Bro.
 
RobBase (c) said:
Congrats on all of your success posting in the morning threads the past 20 years.
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Meanwhile you make a living out of telling people they aren't good enough and need to get in shape.

None of this is surprising.
 
This discussion points out the one flaw of youth team sports. No way to measure individual achievement. Give me individual sports and at least you compete against personal bests.
 
Kburjr said:
This discussion points out the one flaw of youth team sports. No way to measure individual achievement. Give me individual sports and at least you compete against personal bests.
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If you are keeping your kids stats while they play little league, that's a problem to me.
 
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