It's not so awesome, actually....

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

I wasn't that good at basketball, but I played from 4th grade until senior year. I loved it so much I worked SO hard at it... My point is, I loved it, and wanted to excel, and it taught me so much about working within the confines of things I wasn't so good at and things I was, and taught me how much my effort and loyalty could pay off in important ways.

A little OT but my bro had the same situation, except that he simply wasn't good enough at his chosen sport, football (soccer) even to be a sub for the second team.

So the school made him a "reporter". Bless. He got to go to all the games, and feel like he was a part of things, then wrote them up when he got back. He was damn good too, in fact for a while I was worried he might go into sports journalism. Worried because I was supposed to be the writer in the family.

Mons, that is truly a sucky situation. No advice, just sympathy for a boy who's learning early that life isn't fair.

[wanderer]

Tragedy defined! Sorry man, thats real awful situation

[glatt]

That is a really crappy situation. That coach is completely disorganized, so this is probably just a precursor of what you could expect if you went with the hockey. I'm not going to say you're better off without him, because clearly this sucks for Hector (we're talking about Hector, right?) But this coach is bad news so it's not all bad that you won't be spending a lot of time with him.