Crazy Soccer Parents

Ref & Parent Clash at Roundball Game

Here's a non-soccer one. At a nearby HS basketball game, ref and parent clash. The article features one coach's spin on the whole thing, which seems to be a bit friendly towards the father of his star player. All we know for sure, is that a ref and a parent seemed to have violated the unwritten rule of getting too involved in their relationship.

More On The Oregon Basketball Parents

Two soccer tournaments this weekend and the parents were incredibly polite and classy. What's going on out there in Crazy Soccer Parent-Land? I know the season's young but we don't appear ready for summer tournaments at all. Where's the loud, top-of-the-lungs ignorance of basic football rules? The willingness to belittle someone else's 11-year-old kid? The sheer self-inflation of living vicariously through your offspring?

Fortunately, our friends down in Oregon are still in the news, so we can beat this horse a little longer. Hey, OR BBall parents, what's worse than having your son beat by a girl? Having it broadcast nationally that you're embarrassed that your son is being beat by a girl. Seriously. Sucks to be you.

Oregon BBall Parents Go Nutso

The CSPs have been distracted by the need to drive their kids back and forth around the Puget Sound area, team shopping during the tryout season. But never fear, next week there are two soccer tournaments that should produce, at least, a smattering of CSPology.

In the meantime, Oregon Bball Parents (CBBPs?) don't want the wunderkind 12-year-old girl to play with their boys. Read the excuse:

Neal Franzer, The Hoop's director of operations, said Thursday that parents were "adamant" that their complaints have nothing to do with Jaime's skills.

"They said the problem was the boys were playing differently against her because she was a girl," he said. "They'd been taught to not push a girl, so they weren't fouling her hard, and the focus had shifted from playing basketball to noticing a girl was on the floor with them."

Uh, huh. They weren't fouling her hard. And once you take that element out of your 12-year-old's game, he's got nothing? Yeah, right.

So, let me see if I can break this down. In other words, your little boy is getting faked out of his $200 Nike high-tops by a girl, and that threatens your ability to enjoy living vicariously through the little guy.

You've probably tried everything else, right? You've yelled at him in the car on the way home, told him to "man up, she's just a girl," and even called him a sissy or a Bridget or something else demeaning. And yet, still, the girl is better. Banning her from the competition does seem like the logical next step.

Bottom 10 Sports Moments of 2007

It's been awhile since I've posted anything. The CSPs have been behaving themselves...or waiting for warmer weather to display their shenanigans. Anyhow, the Positive Coaching Alliance has released its Bottom 10/top 10 Sports Moments for 2007. Several of our CSPs and CSCs have made the list  (The bottom list, that is).

Let's resolve to do better in 2008, parents.

Crazy Sports Parent Banned

Ah, the purely obnoxious sports parent. Dispensing helpful advice to the son, and in this case the coaches, from the sideline. Here's one that wore out his welcome.

Every other parent on the team ought to pay this guy, nothing too much, maybe 5 bucks. But give him something to show your gratitude. Because every time he opens his mouth, the other kids are thinking how glad they are that their parents aren't like that.

Fight at Fourth Grade Football Game

The CSPs have been behaving themselves lately, so I'm going to have to ask Yelm, Washington's crazy (American) football parents to fill in. And, oh, are they ready...ready to rumble, that is.

Yesterday's match between perennial titans Yelm Thunderers and the Lacey Bobcats turned sour when words between parents after the game devolved into a decent-sized brawl, 1 dumbass arrested, 1 parent to the hospital and several others likely to be cited at a later date, once the prosecutors sort out the run-of-the-mill idiots from the lawbreakers.

Chuck Farrar, president of the league, said there were two to four instigators “who took a game of second- through fourth-graders way too seriously.”

Maurice Hooper, coach of the Bobcats, said he didn’t see how the fight started, but that “there was a lot of stuff said on both sides.”

“We’re grown-ups, and it’s about the kids,” he said.

Apparently, a few parents don't share that view...