Parents who coach their kids get a bad rap. But Iowa football Coach Kirk Ferentz wasn't playing favorites when he suspended his son from all team activities this weekend after the 19-year-old was charged by police for underage drinking.
It's a reminder that the parent coach doesn't always have the easiest row to hoe.
They're accused to playing their kid first, playing their kid longest. If they take the other tack and limit their kid's playing time and focus the discipline on their own child, the other parents start whispering about how hard they're being on that poor kid. Really, they can't win.
Yet, you see a lot of parent coaches. Who else is going to step in? You don't see a lot of down-on-their-luck lawyers mandated by the court to coach a the mighty ducks or former pro baseball players with a pest control business and lack of ethics that will take on a paying gig to lead a bunch of bears out of embarrassment. Even on the high school level, where there is actually pay (however meager) on the line, coaches are generally either school staffers or parents. Sometimes they're both.
They do it because they want to spend time with their child. They do it because they don't want their kid to have to do without the chance - and no one else is stepping up to coach. They do it because they like the sport. And they take it on the chin all season long.
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