...to come out for a particular sport...lets say the baseball coach kept requesting your kid to come out for baseball after originally not planning to. Then, after coming out, the coach cuts him, would you be a little perturbed at the coach?

Yes. It's one thing to encourage a kid to come try out for a team (especially if you assure them everyone is competing for a spot but you'd love to see them at tryouts). It's a completely another for a coach to continuously tell a kid they need a starting point guard or short stop or goalie, say they are what they are looking for, then cut them in favor of someone else. That is just manipulative and self-serving.

Yes. It's one thing to encourage a kid to come try out for a team (especially if you assure them everyone is competing for a spot but you'd love to see them at tryouts). It's a completely another for a coach to continuously tell a kid they need a starting point guard or short stop or goalie, say they are what they are looking for, then cut them in favor of someone else. That is just manipulative and self-serving.

Just plain mean. :no:

I don't have kids yet, but yes, I would be ticked to say the least.

Yes. It's one thing to encourage a kid to come try out for a team (especially if you assure them everyone is competing for a spot but you'd love to see them at tryouts). It's a completely another for a coach to continuously tell a kid they need a starting point guard or short stop or goalie, say they are what they are looking for, then cut them in favor of someone else. That is just manipulative and self-serving.

 

Well, I don't know if it went that far, but I had a parent discuss this with me the other day. His son went out for the 8th grade baseball team, supposedly at the repeated requests of the coach to do so as the kid wasn't going to try out. So, kid tries out and gets cut. To make matters worse (in my mind anyway) the team only had 14 kids go out and he only cut 2 or 3 kids total. I find it a little hard to believe they couldn't keep 14 kids for baseball and not cut anyone, but oh well. Anyway, kid and dad were both upset with the situation, and I have to say I think I would be as well after being repeatedly asked to come out.

To me the big factor is repeated requests. If a kid goes up to the coach and says "I'm thinking of trying out, they should be encouraged but also honestly told their status as accurately as the coach knows it. It's a completely other thing to repeatedly tell a kid or seek out a kid to have them try out, then cut them.

If it was repeated requests then the coach was out of line. If it was just one then I do't think so.

If a coach is asking a kid to come out and then cuts him after he comes out. The only reason my kid came out was because the coach kept asking, there would be a very intense conversation with the coach.

What a terrible way to dash the kids hopes and probably keep him from trying out again in later years.

...to come out for a particular sport...lets say the baseball coach kept requesting your kid to come out for baseball after originally not planning to. Then, after coming out, the coach cuts him, would you be a little perturbed at the coach?

 

I'd rather have that then have them go out for the team and just sit the bench.

I'd rather have that then have them go out for the team and just sit the bench.

 

If a coach is practically begging the kid to come out, I think most would assume the kid was going to play. Why would a coach bother a kid like that if he wasn't aware of his/her athletic abilities?

If a coach is practically begging the kid to come out, I think most would assume the kid was going to play. Why would a coach bother a kid like that if he wasn't aware of his/her athletic abilities?

 

Depth. Coaches do it a lot.

Depth. Coaches do it a lot.

 

Okay. But we are talking about a kid being cut... That doesn't add depth.

Okay. But we are talking about a kid being cut... That doesn't add depth.

 

I know. I was referring to begging a kid to play, and then sitting him all season.

If the coach is asking the kid to come out for the team, the kid does and gets cut, I don't see why I'd have an issue with it. What if the kid is a heck of an athlete, plays basketball and football and the coach thinks he'd make a heck of an addition to the team? Kid comes out and the coach realizes he doesn't play baseball for a reason. I don't see anything wrong with that.

 

Now if he is asking the kid to come out telling him they need a SS or they need a left-handed pitcher and is continuously pestering the kid about it, and then he cuts him, yeah, that's pretty low.