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Worst parents?

MS4EVER

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What sport has the worst parents?

I’m going with hockey, football/wrestling then basketball
Thoughts?

Also I’m going with CC parents as the best. I think they are happy their kid just finishes the race!
 
In my experiences, baseball parents have been far tamer than other sports.
Not in mine, I’ve been a parent and a coach for travel baseball and basketball, as well as, youth football. Based on my experience baseball was by far the worst.
 
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Hockey parents are awful. Wrestling are the worst. Then again a school I was at had to have a parent meeting because of a parent fight between schools at first-second grade coed soccer game that involved police getting called.
 
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Wrestling! It provides too much time between matches for parents to sit with their thoughts and convince themselves that everyone is out to get them and their kid. Soccer is a dark horse candidate here.
 
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In my experience, club volleyball had some of the best parents. Spent some great weekends in hotel bars over the years!
 
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Wrestling! It provides too much time between matches for parents to sit with their thoughts and convince themselves that everyone is out to get them and their kid. Soccer is a dark horse candidate here.
As a whole I don’t think wrestling is terrible but there are certain clubs that are the absolute worst. The jerk parents all end up together, it’s a sight to see. As a whole I think travel baseball has the worst parents but the worst incidents I’ve seen have always been at youth football games.

The most cut throat youth travel sport is cheerleading and it’s not even close. The mom drama is on another level.
 
I don’t even understand what wrestling parents can be mad about. I would think everything plays itself out on the mat.
 
I don’t even understand what wrestling parents can be mad about. I would think everything plays itself out on the mat.
You would think but people often have a tough time with their kid getting mauled on the mat. The other thing people go crazy about is when you have 1200 kids at a tourney there are a lot of ways you can do the brackets and there is alway a group of people that think the tourney is out to get them.
 
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You would think but people often have a tough time with their kid getting mauled on the mat. The other thing people go crazy about is when you have 1200 kids at a tourney there are a lot of ways you can do the brackets and there is alway a group of people that think the tourney is out to get them.
Never really thought about the bracketing. I can see how that could lead to some issues.. also a baseball issue
 
Hockey and it is not particularly close. In hockey culture, it is 100% acceptable to berate the officials, coaches and players regardless of their age. As someone who ran an ice rink but all the users were rental groups, it was difficult to step on the rink because of the behavior of everyone involved. At other sports issues seemed to be isolated events. At hockey it was standard operating procedures
 
So far I've learned that Hockey, Wrestling, Football, Baseball and Cheerleading parents are the absolute worst and it's not even close.
 
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