I would like to voice my opinion about what has become an
epidemic in youth sports in Gilroy. Teams are supposed to be formed
through a draft where kids go out one day and practice in front of
coaches who will form these team.
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CALLER 1: I would like to voice my opinion about what has become an epidemic in youth sports in Gilroy. Teams are supposed to be formed through a draft where kids go out one day and practice in front of coaches who will form these team.
The draft is held and the coaches are there to evaluate the kids, and then they’re supposed to draft based on their evaluation and they have a process in which they pick these kids. The epidemic is there seems to be coaches at every level that obviously tell certain kids that are really good, probably better than most of the others, to stay away from draft so that other coaches don’t see them and draft them.
It never ceases to to amaze me that there is always at least one team that has a bunch of good players that were not at the draft. Lo and behold, these kids happen to be friends with each other.
So these coaches actually cheat. There’s no other way to describe it. Some of these coaches are teachers, people involved in the community that are supposed to be leaders, mentors and this is what they do. They actually tell kids not to go to the draft so that other coaches don’t draft them. They all show up on their team. That is the mentality of some of these losers who place significance on beating the crap out of some of these teams who follow the system, follow the rules and didn’t cheat.
GREEN PHONE: Our first reaction here is horror. And then you think about human nature, or should we say the foibles in the way of thinking of some. Some coaches even on the youth level seem to derive great pleasure out of bragging to their peers how the team they coached dominated a league in a particular sport.
We all know that youth sports are supposed to be for the youth, and yet some adults live vicariously through theirs and others’ children. That is a shame but, again, it’s the dark side of human nature.
