Hilarious! Our new dugouts were built with that in mind!!!! Not just the Gatorade thing, but no contact from parents! The only thing you see is the field from our dugouts! We do have a new water fountain in the home team dugout though!

 

I think #9 believes we should have done a better job of it

I see it at halftime of a LOT of U10 soccer games...but never during the game itself.

 

I saw it once in a high school soccer tournament in Indiana. The host provided no water for the teams. So parents were buying water and bringing it to the bench.

Mrs. TAC would get all out of whack when the kids used the same towels on the bench to dry off.

 

Like ballplayers never get a drop of sweat on one another during the game.

I applaud parents who take care of their kids. I know that it is the last thing on coaches' minds. Everybody thinks that drinking out of the same water bottles (that probably never get run through a dishwasher) and using the the same towels over and over to wipe off your face (towels probably never get washed either) is ok until their kid is one of the 10 or so that get the flu bug. When my kids played, they had their own water bottles and their own towels because coaches don't think of those things. My kids got called petty by the coaches because they wouldn't share their water bottle and towel with the rest of the team. When a coach is mature enough to take care of my kid on the sideline, that's when I'll cut the cord. And besides, we are talking about high school, right?

YES

It bugs me when parents go over to the bench, during the game, to give their son or daughter a Gatorade. When I was a kid, my mom never approached the bench during a game to give me anything. I drank from the jug at the end of the bench.

 

Am I just too much of a stick in the mud?

 

Yes

 

(Edit): at first I assumed this was middle school... which I have no problem with. These poor boys are going through puberty... their heads are elsewhere.

 

If you're referring to HS, then "no." I've never seen it happen at the HS level. It would make me laugh if I did.

I bet Randy Parkers mom brings him a bag of popcorn. :sssh:

 

:lol2::lol2::lol2:

In grade school my sons would look over and give me the universal "Drink" sign if they had gone through the bottle they took with them. In Highschool I'm not sure they even knew where I sat (even though I was probably in the front row). Not sure I've seen a HS game where a cooler was not at the end of the bench. Or the team manager brought them over bottles in the huddles.

 

Just have to rub it in, don't you.:lol2:

It bugs me when parents go over to the bench, during the game, to give their son or daughter a Gatorade. When I was a kid, my mom never approached the bench during a game to give me anything. I drank from the jug at the end of the bench.

 

Am I just too much of a stick in the mud?

 

Depends, if it's grade school ball I don't really have a problem with it, but any older than about 7th grade and yeah, that's totally innapropriate, give your kid their drink before the game or at halftime.

If you don't have clean bottles or enough towels fire your manager lol

I don't think it's a big deal as long as it isn't during the game .

 

But why do kids need individual bottles. What happened to the powdered Gatorade to make a jug ? Schools can't afford that ?

 

Also if I signaled my pops for Gatorade during a high school game he would be more likely to buy it and poor it out in front me than bring it to me .

I watch a ton of HS basketball and I've never once seen it in that setting, girls or boys. Same goes for football.

 

Now, once we switch seasons to spring it's a different story. If I watch a HS baseball or softball game, the average is a half-dozen times per game, per team. Not sure why this is OK in baseball and softball but not so much in basketball or football.

I guarantee you if my dad had done that when I was in high school, I would have shook him off and he would be packing that Gatorade back to his seat with him. No way I would have taken it.

 

Not picking on you specifically, as there are a number of posts in this thread with this sentiment.

 

However, I have to ask: How much of this attitude comes from the silly, outdated "toughness" approach used by the neanderthals that bought into the "Junction Boys" style of conditioning where if a player needed water they were deemed as somehow being weak? I mean, even great coaches such as Bear Bryant and Bobby Knight have been exposed as being morons when it comes to the "denying fluids makes the player tougher" philosophy.