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| The 93 Greyhounds- these guys did a great job handling less than ideal circumstances.... and they could play! |
We simulate an opponent contacting our player and describe the type of verbal exchange our guys may encounter. We have two objectives:
1- protect our teammate.
2- no one gets a penalty or is ejected.
As soon as the altercation begins, our guys ON the field, grab our player that is involved in the altercation. We tell our kids to never touch a player from the other team.As a group, they surround him and physically bring our player to the sideline. The players on our sideline open up like the Red Sea, the guys on the field take our guy behind them, and the Red Sea closes back up.... the sooner we can get our guy out of the officials sight, the better.
We tell our kids that they must be the one to remove our player. One night, protecting a player and trying to keep him from getting ejected/seen by the officials, one of my coaches quickly jerked a kid off the field. Even though our coach was helping the young man, it looked bad and the parents got upset. Since then, I have told our guys that I do not want our coach put on the spot like that. They need to handle those situations.
In 25 years, we have only had 4 ejections, and all 4 were unwarranted or handled poorly. I like how we handle it because it gives us a positive way to be a family and look out for each other without having to sacrifice a win or a kid missing out on two or more Friday nights of HS football.
If a coach out there has a unique way to practice unusual circumstances or events, please send that to me at coachdavidbuchanan@gmail.com.
It has been my experience that most of my kids have been good guys that want to do what is right and please the coach. Giving them a plan for a tough situation has helped our guys be successful and prevented some ugly Friday nights.
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