A Coach's Diary

“But there’s nothing wrong with a healthy partnership between parents and coaches — nobody is right all the time. But with parents holding the bulk of the power, any high school coach who only  gripes about parents  and views them merely as an obstacle or outright enemy, or who unwittingly gets put in the middle of long-standing parent-on-parent battles (oh, it happens) without trying to figure out what’s going on, is going to be a coach who ends up fired or quitting. It’s hard to manage these relationships, and hard to take the first, positive steps to do so, but it’s going to be a lot harder for high school coaches who just figure their record is the only thing that does the talking.” This was the final paragraph in a blog post at Forbes.com , written by Bob Cook on easily high school coaches, even successful ones, are being fired at the request, or demands, of the parents of the program.  He referenced a couple of coaches who had turned around programs ...