This, plus the general respect I have for expenses paid in and putting work in for "athletic skills PLUS mastering ice skating (though that should be vice versa), made me vote baseball I/o hockey.
What sport has the worst parents?
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What you described is terrible and only heaven knows what impacts that will have down the road on kids who witness this kind of stuff.
With said, and I realize that this may not reflect well on me, and perhaps it is just your descriptive writing style, but the motion picture I have conjured up in my head of what you shared went down has me giggling as if it was ripped from a sitcom.
So rather than coaches putting expectations on their players and parents and then enforcing them, we'd rather have everyone at any game out of control crazy? Knight and Izzo never hesitated to call out the fans either. All behavior today should be sanctioned by only those complaining on message boards rather than directly by those in charge? We are the only righteous folks involved with sport?
Each coach has their own style and I have been at high school baseball games where the coach has confronted the fans as to their comments to the umpires and the poor behavior immediately ceased. Yes, there are coaches that get out of line just like the parents but perhaps the IHSA rather than merely having a mascot for good sportsmanship should offer refs, umpires, coaches and administrators a little guidance in just how to address unacceptable behavior from unruly people.
The parents need to be informed before the season begins that there are standards of behavior for their child and for them and it will be enforced. The fear of confronting an unreasonable parent seems to be guiding our approach to the problem rather than actually having an expectation of proper behavior. The failure to address the problem in the sports that one must continually be paying for the player to play unless led by people of character will always have those problems. Unacceptable behavior should lead to sanctions.
Caveat emptor.
In my experience, while Hinsdale area parents may be vocal, most of the time it’s not in front off other parents - and I’ve never seen it come close to physical. Most of the time it’s background politics… as everyone is concerned about name and reputation. It’s a rather small world.
As a reporter, I couldn't believe softball... almost saw the Zion-Benton and Mundelein parents throw down one time.
I coached my three sons in softball for several years and I would say there was zero issues with parents on either team. The only incident regarding football was one time well after a game was over a coach (an ex-Bear) was berating a ref in the parking lot. I wanted to say something like it's only a kids game but I was afraid of getting beat up. An old friend of mine was a hockey dad, and is now a hockey granddad, and what I hear of his behavior at games is horrible.
Would that be the biological parents, the in-season foster parents, the adoptive parents or the guardian parents?
As a 10+ year hockey parent, I agree that hockey is the worst.
My son has participated in hockey, football, lacrosse, basketball, soccer and wrestling……..hockey parents are worse than all the others combined.
However, I can count on one hand the number of youth/high school hockey fights I’ve seen in the 10+ years as a parent.
In Illinois, fighting in youth/high school hockey comes with a mandatory 3-4 game suspension (depending on AHAI and local hockey board rules).
Now there is a LOT of pushing, shoving, cross checking and cheap shots that occur. But RARELY does a punch get thrown.
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Well it was some years back, and the Libertyville Boys Club, but won't mention any names.
Crushing O’Doul’s between innings?
