Nice Guy
04-28-2004, 09:57 AM
This is simply a rant.
As some of you know I started playing football again for a sort of local team. As of yesterday I quit. I quit because of the double standard used by the head coach. Anybody he wants to play/thinks is good can miss all of the practices they want and still get to play. I miss a week because of a bad knee and am told without a doubt that I will not be allowed to play. After that I came back to practice and busted my ass to try and get some playing time in the next game. I was 1 of 3 lineman that made all of the practices that week.
4th quarter of the game rolls in we are winning 33 - 3 and I have not gone in for a single down, neither has my bro. 8 mins left in the game the score is now 41 - 3 and the starting offensive lineman are starting to wonder why all of the extra guys on the team are not getting any playing time. They go talk to the coach and ask him to start subbing us in. He looks at both my brother and I and walks off. One of the lineman ask my brother why he won't stick us in. My bro responds "Because he thinks we will lose the game for him". The coach hears this and stomps up to my bro and gets in his face and asks him if he wants to quit, he says he is thinking about it. The couch then tells us that he is going to stick both of us in for the remainder of the game. Time left 5 mins.
It was obvious that he had no intention of putting us in until he realized that he may lose one or both of us. I'm not a started never have been, not even in highschool. I didn't expect to start, I just wanted to play some ball. All the coach wants us for is meat squad, somebody who can give his starters a look. Which would have been fine if he had treated me with respect.
When I told the coaches yesterday that I was done playing and the reasons why, he started insulting me. Telling me that I wasn't dressing down for enough of the practices(didn't dress down for 1), I was always on the sidelines at practice for minor injuries/low threshold for pain(Got a stinger/pinched nerve in my shoulder 1 practice and they made me sit out), and that I was missing to many practices(Missed 4, 2 because of work related issues and 2 because of my knee).
They went on to tell me that the see all of this great potental but I just need to work on some things, like dropping 20 pounds and getting faster. There was only 1 lineman who could beat me off the line and beat me down the field, my brother and he is 20 pounds lighter then I am and he doesn't get to play.
I'm only 25 but I'm to old to be putting up with this type of crap. I did enough of that when I was a kid.
As some of you know I started playing football again for a sort of local team. As of yesterday I quit. I quit because of the double standard used by the head coach. Anybody he wants to play/thinks is good can miss all of the practices they want and still get to play. I miss a week because of a bad knee and am told without a doubt that I will not be allowed to play. After that I came back to practice and busted my ass to try and get some playing time in the next game. I was 1 of 3 lineman that made all of the practices that week.
4th quarter of the game rolls in we are winning 33 - 3 and I have not gone in for a single down, neither has my bro. 8 mins left in the game the score is now 41 - 3 and the starting offensive lineman are starting to wonder why all of the extra guys on the team are not getting any playing time. They go talk to the coach and ask him to start subbing us in. He looks at both my brother and I and walks off. One of the lineman ask my brother why he won't stick us in. My bro responds "Because he thinks we will lose the game for him". The coach hears this and stomps up to my bro and gets in his face and asks him if he wants to quit, he says he is thinking about it. The couch then tells us that he is going to stick both of us in for the remainder of the game. Time left 5 mins.
It was obvious that he had no intention of putting us in until he realized that he may lose one or both of us. I'm not a started never have been, not even in highschool. I didn't expect to start, I just wanted to play some ball. All the coach wants us for is meat squad, somebody who can give his starters a look. Which would have been fine if he had treated me with respect.
When I told the coaches yesterday that I was done playing and the reasons why, he started insulting me. Telling me that I wasn't dressing down for enough of the practices(didn't dress down for 1), I was always on the sidelines at practice for minor injuries/low threshold for pain(Got a stinger/pinched nerve in my shoulder 1 practice and they made me sit out), and that I was missing to many practices(Missed 4, 2 because of work related issues and 2 because of my knee).
They went on to tell me that the see all of this great potental but I just need to work on some things, like dropping 20 pounds and getting faster. There was only 1 lineman who could beat me off the line and beat me down the field, my brother and he is 20 pounds lighter then I am and he doesn't get to play.
I'm only 25 but I'm to old to be putting up with this type of crap. I did enough of that when I was a kid.