They're not where I am, and I always check my car. Fortunately they don't seem to be in the parking lot. They seem to have two major spots where they congregate, and then you'll see them every now and then in other areas.
former coach betrayed their trust and abandoned them. You have to be pretty evil to pull this crud and let down all of these kids. I'm just hoping this new opportunity a handful of us are exploring works out. We should know later this week.
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I really don't know anything about extracurricular softball (e.g, I had to look up 'daddy ball'
The coach had a brilliant idea to make a 'super team' and then bailed out to shop his daughter around when he realized she likely wouldn't make the blended team? When you tried to go forward with the remaining try-outs, he refused to release the fields so the try-outs could be held? Was there any benefit to him doing this? I mean, if he was going to shop out his daughters, at least the other girls try-out. I'm sorry for the questions, I am clueless about this kind of stuff! I am probably misunderstanding a bunch of things.
If it is true that he was busy shopping his daughter around to other teams and making you guy think this team was still happening to prevent the better players from attending other team try-outs, that's pretty bad. That seems like cheating to me, but it probably can't be proven.
Is it too late to find another coach for the blended team? It sounds like he wasn't very good anyway, so maybe there is a silver lining in this mess. But my goodness, I hope your girls and their teammates can find a solution in this mess. If there is any justice, this stunt of his will follow him where he goes and preclude him from coaching in the future.
If the guy is their hockey coach now, his admission to Harvard must have been decades ago. I imagine it's slightly different now....probably a LOT more applicants, for one thing. There's been such a huge push in the last decade or so for parents to start their kids on the college track when they are in preschool. Getting them all sorts of lessons to set them apart....music, foreign languages, sports, tutoring...it's supposed to make them more competitive in the college market, and it probably does, but it seems like every kid applying to those schools have that same background, unless they are legacy kids.
Financial aid scholarships are based on family income. One African American single mother was earning little and her kid got a free ride to Harvard. Cornell for many years had been a powerhouse in college wresting with some of the best wrestling facilities in the country. They recruit the best wrestlers, are given free ride for four years ( grant aid ) and have tutors for them for four years to assist them so the student athletes can be academically eligible to compete in wresting. Grant aid as Ivy League calls it or athletic scholarships as other colleges call it are given a free ride ( tuition, room and board ). At Duke University which is another competitive school to attend, the student athletes live in better housing and eat in separate dining areas only for athletes that includes better food options as opposed to the regular Duke student that is not an athlete. Also tutors are supplied to them to help them remain academically eligible to play sports.
I've never heard of Chicago Booth...is that supposed to be a really good school?
Is there a way to move the nest away from where he would be doing yard work or can he just work around it? I'm assuming they are not the kind of bees to make honey, but are they helpful in ways besides pollinating?Good morning
I did a YouTube video this AM. It was a lower body work that was a little bit of cardio and some ballet and floor work with gliding discs. I am going to revisit my strength training program when winter rolls around and pair it with Couch to 10K.
Yesterday, my husband told me there was a wasp nest in the ground in our backyard near the house. He went out to buy some spray. I went out to look and they were little sweat bees. When he returned, my son and I convinced him not to spray them, because they are pollinators and non-aggressive. They need sodium to survive and they will lick the sweat from your body. If you want them to leave you alone, you can place bowls of salt water near their nest. They do sting, though. He was going to spray them last night and my son talked him out of it. I think he is worried about getting stung while doing yard work.
In Wall Street , someone with a Harvard degree will and can open doors since Wall Street is full of Ivy League brains. That is a fact. They like to recruit their own. In the Ivy League there are secret clubs like Skull and Bones in Yale that just like other society clubs they also look out for each other post college years. The clubs have hazing initiation rites but that's not something to describe in this forum.
I'm not sure I understand how all of it works in the first place, but is this elite? It doesn't sound like school ball, right? So this was the team your daughter was already on, and they were forming next year's team? Or was this changing from one level to the next? I don't understand why the team would depend on his involvement. Is it that you don't have a coach now?My knee has been aching, but I really want to commit to getting back into some kind of routine. The kids start school tomorrow, meaning I'll be up early. Not sure if I want to do some before and some after drop off or what, but I need to do something. It might also be good with my anger management.
Our softball world blew up on Friday, and I am just one giant ball of rage. I don't really know how to explain what happened in a clear and concise manner, but it doesn't help that the coach/manager hasn't given us a clear answer as to why. Ultimately, our coach informed us several months ago that he'd be putting together a new team that was a blend of our team, another highly competitive team, and a few talented people we could pick up at tryouts to round things out. The kids identified as the most talented were guaranteed locks for the new team, while the rest would officially be trying out. After the first three rounds of tryouts, we were called by our coach...who promoted himself to manager in this, and were informed that our daughter made the team. She was one of the locks, but still good to confirm. By Friday morning, we get a cryptic message on our team app from the manager to check our emails. He sent this rambling message. It was such a mess that we couldn't tell if he was just leaving the team or if the team wasn't happening at all. When my husband called to get clarification, he was informed there's no team, but the coach/manager failed to give us a clear reason and what little info he did offer up was one part lie and one part cop out. He claimed that the coach of the other team involved in the blending wanted too much $ to be head coach. People usually remember when there's a dispute over money, so considering she was just as blindsided and desperately still trying to figure out a way to make this work, that reason our coach/manager supplied is almost definitely a lie. The cop out...our coach/manager is a really obnoxious control freak who insists on talking over people vs. having discussions. It is possible that the best girls for the team didn't match what he had in mind. That doesn't mean there's no team, like he's claiming, it just means the people with a higher level of softball knowledge holding the tryouts picked the best cluster of girls. At the end of the day, he is the only one who was bailing on this team...so we tried to go forward with the next round of tryouts in hopes that we could find a field. Yeah...our old coach/manager burned us with that too. The fields we were using were in his name. He couldn't get them transferred over to the other coach nor was he willing to work out any kind of agreement with us. It's very late in the recruiting season and most fields are already spoken for, so we had no field to continue with this venture. And with it being late in recruitment, this also means that most teams recruiting girls have already had their tryouts. That's not to say there aren't teams looking for girls, but most are either too far, daddy ball, or playing less competitive C ball. We have a lead on a team for some of our kids and got the ball rolling last night, but we're all just a big bundle of emotions.
Our coach/manager's failure to provide a legit reason, when he's notorious for being an oversharer giving way too much info, has everyone thinking the worst. One of the dads heard him saying he was shopping his kid to other teams too. That's fine if you're not trying to field a team with your kids and another organized group, but not when you're already putting together a team of your own. By having these top kids from our team and this other team committed to his new team, we never dreamed of going out and trying out for other teams. But if he was shopping his kid around outside of our organization while all of this was going on, it meant she wouldn't have to compete against the best from our two teams. So, it's possible he removed some of the competition by making us think we had a team. Even worse...assuming he knew the other coach had issues with the manager of the fields we were using, he also knew that when we tried to band together...she'd never be able to convince the field manager to let us have field time. Now this one may be stretching it, but coach/mgr and his wife supposedly had Covid and couldn't attend any of these tryouts. How convenient that you get sick just before all of this and then pull the plug. He's an anti-vaxxer and believes all kinds of insane non-scientific stuff, so it's not a total shock that his daughter was allowed to go out to the mall while they supposedly had symptoms, but considering how careless he was about considering spread prior to all of this, it wouldn't shock me if he tried to use the virus as a smokescreen to keep away from tryouts and secretly get his kid onto another team. The worst part is that he killed the friendship between his daughter and best friend by doing this.
At the end of the day, he's not very liked in softball circles and if his kid was already picked up by another team, they are going to have to gag him if they don't want him trying to interfere with their coaching...and as this season progressed, we realized we were being outcoached due to his ignorance on a lot of things. So, it could be a real mess. The big thing is when this makes its way around all of the local softball circles. It's already started to travel around by word of mouth and considering he's got such a bad reputation, this could brand his kid with a scarlet letter if enough of the truth gets out.
Sorry for the novel, but I'm just so mad. At the end of the day, these kids just want to play ball and their
Sorry...just venting.
Right, but that's only athletes...not every kid who applies is going in for athletics. And the amount of financial aid you get depends on the school. We were living below the poverty line and Cornell told my brother that while they had financial aid, they did not give full scholarships for academics, but he could apply for grants or low-interest loans. But it's not the same as a full scholarship. I know one girl in the music department with me got a full ride by signing a contract that she would teach in Wyoming for at least 3 years after she graduated. It was kind of like a loan...they paid for her school and she didn't really have to pay it back monetarily, she just had to stay in Wyoming to teach. I applied at Black Hills State in South Dakota, but they didn't offer academic scholarships to out of staters or something...I remember asking about scholarship opportunities, and was told the most I could get would be $2500 per year. I ended up at UW because the in-state tuition was so much cheaper, and my scholarships from local organizations would go farther, plus I was given a tuition and fees scholarship from the school itself. But it really depends on who is offering the scholarship.
Wow...he must have had amazing grades and ACT/SAT scores!!
And student athletes are usually "taken" care of by wealthy alumni boosters that donate to fund the athletic program.
