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[muckandgrind]

So you are against teaching kids personal responsibility?

How is a coach responsible for a hormone charged teen and his/her day to day level of aggression?

No I'm not....But I'm also not against holding coaches responsible for the actions of their players. If they have a kid who can't control their aggression, then the coach needs to take action....whether that be corrective action in practice, benching them, suspending them or kicking them off the team.

Your association must give coaches more control. My association board and hockey ops committee will not back up a coach who benches, suspends or would dare kick a kid off the team. The parent will complain and the board will give in, because numbers are so low. So basically, due to the association fair play policy through bantams, the coach is to be the team buddy. Not the team authority. Maybe the association should be held responsible? HOC committee?

It seems most logical to me that the actions of the player are the players responsibility.

Run for a board position and make some changes. Coaches need to be allowed to run their teams and control their players. They are not babysitters who should be forced to put up with unruly and undisciplined players. If they have a player that can't be controlled, then they should have the power to do something about it. If your association board won't back them up, that's YOUR association's problem and that should be addressed. I would never want to coach in an association where I wan't given the latitude to discipline my players.

[Outoftowner]

No I'm not....But I'm also not against holding coaches responsible for the actions of their players. If they have a kid who can't control their aggression, then the coach needs to take action....whether that be corrective action in practice, benching them, suspending them or kicking them off the team.

Your association must give coaches more control. My association board and hockey ops committee will not back up a coach who benches, suspends or would dare kick a kid off the team. The parent will complain and the board will give in, because numbers are so low. So basically, due to the association fair play policy through bantams, the coach is to be the team buddy. Not the team authority. Maybe the association should be held responsible? HOC committee?

It seems most logical to me that the actions of the player are the players responsibility.

Run for a board position and make some changes. Coaches need to be allowed to run their teams and control their players. They are not babysitters who should be forced to put up with unruly and undisciplined players. If they have a player that can't be controlled, then they should have the power to do something about it. If your association board won't back them up, that's YOUR association's problem and that should be addressed. I would never want to coach in an association where I wan't given the latitude to discipline my players.

I've spent my time arguing with the board. Its community rec.
I no longer coach because of being over ruled on discipline, fair play policy, and a 90 min commitment rule at squirts. The rule removes any type of dry land before or after practice or additional outdoor practice on the same day as an indoor practice. It was decided that this is "too much".

The association will not relieve my kids on wavier. Even if we wavier out without actually changing our address my kids become ineligible to skate or tryout on the wavering in association's A team.

Sorry- thats a whole different topic.

My point really, was to say that the kid esponisble for the agressive behavoir, should be held accountible for it. The coach cannot physically control the actions of the players on the ice, so they should not be eld accountable for it- the player should