It’s Flag Football Fanatics (FFF) coaching clinic season again, as the league is about to start its fall season serving almost 4,500 youth in Ohio and northern Kentucky. I am so pleased to continue my relationship with this outstanding youth recreational sports league by providing coaching clinics to the many volunteer coaches that make thisContinue reading “1,000th Coach Trained!!!”
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Adults Behaving Badly
In my coaching clinics, I show the slide above. The voice track is about when I was asked a while ago, “What makes me righteously angry?” My response was that I get righteously angry when a child stops playing youth sports because of a bad experience with an adult. Notice the statistic from a 2001Continue reading “Adults Behaving Badly”
How Not to Build Fair Teams in Youth Sports
Our 2022 Little League Baseball season is off to a rocky start. This is my first year managing in the Majors Division (for 11 and 12-year olds) and we’ve lost all 7 games. Along the way, we’ve been outscored 110 – 9. You read that right. Our run differential is -101 runs. We’ve been run-ruledContinue reading “How Not to Build Fair Teams in Youth Sports”