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Message: [QUOTE="RichZ, post: 3609725, member: 534"] When my son was a wee lad I coached his team in the town rec league. I found dealing with overbearing parents to be the biggest problem. I had one kid on the team who was [B]really [/B]good., one who was ok, but thought he was great, one who was awful but thought he was great, and a handful of kids who needed to be reminded to dribble. The two who thought they were better than they were had fathers who fed their illusions of grandeur. One of them, whenever he got the ball, would dribble to the corner at the baseline where he father stood, and wait for instructions. ALWAYS got trapped there. The kid who was really good could bail us out every game, but his father asked me not to put that pressure on him. Turns out he had been the coach until the previous year, when the two know-it-all fathers made him quit out of frustration. I ended up doing the same. [/QUOTE]