50. "I'm starting to be really grateful track is a last-resort sport" In response to In response to 48
>Every parent thinks their kid is a >star.
About 80% of my kids come to track (and distance running in particular) after getting cut from other sports. Their parents are usually shocked to hear that their sons might actually have some athletic potential.
Though my wife points out that I did coach the son of two olympians. They were (rather intentionally) pretty hands-off about his involvement. But track also doesn't give parents a big opportunity to bother me because it's more clearly a meritocracy. A parent can bother you because his son isn't playing shortstop and if only you'd get your head out of your ass he'd thrive. But it's a lot harder for somebody to tell me their son would be faster under different circumstances.
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