A Dude’s Guide

I have been coaching my sons’ basketball, football and soccer for a few years now. It has been great. However, it is tough for me and my boys. Specifically, if one of them wants to do something like practice three-point shots, which they can’t make, they get pissed and pout when I say no. If they need to run a lap as discipline for doing something wrong, they get mad and loaf around the field.

Being a parent and son is tough when you’re on the same team. Being the coach is tougher. It’s hard to balance the parenting, coaching and disciplinary needs of the team and children. I also find myself giving them less playing time so I am not viewed as playing favorites.

I have found that the assistant coach can help alleviate and intervene when it comes to my boys. And I can help him with his.

Dude!: Coaching your kids is a great and rewarding thing, but you gotta’ have an assistant who can help out.

– Barry

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Here is a sarcastic smiley emoticon ;-). Here is a happy smiley emoticon :-). Everyone get the picture? Well, it seems folks tonight in the southern hemisphere will see the universe’s biggest smiley.

All this is going to happen tonight. Of course, we here in the northern hemisphere won’t get to see any of it, but it’s still pretty cool.

I’m going to make sure I bring this up to my little dudes and see what they want to do with the information. I’m hoping they’re going to suggest a quick trip to Australia to see the whole thing. Not that we can do it, but still, it’s a nice idea.

I’m going to be scouring the net tonight looking for actual pictures of the event. I have a feeling it’s going to be bigger than the lunar eclpse that happened last year.

– Richard

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Ninety-nine percent of you won’t care. Well, neither do I. Still I must post to congratulate the mighty Florida Gators, who have just crushed our hated rivals the Florida State University for Women Criminoles in football. Seems Free Shoes U thought they could take the Gators out to the woodshed for a little whuppin’, Southern style. Seems they were wrong. Again.

The Gators crushed their opponents 45-15 on a night in which our starting quarterback didn’t even play the entire game. Yeah, the Gators whupped those Semi-Holes so badly the back up quarterback was playing for most of the last quarter. Ah, I love the smell of victory.

All of this means that the University of Florida Gators will be meeting Tide-Water U in Atlanta next Saturday for the right to play in the national championship game.

What can I say? I love college football like no other sport.

All of which means I’m going to be tearing out what little hair I have left next Saturday when I’m coaching the first basketball game for my youngest little dude during the SEC Championship game. I think I love the little dudes too much.

– Richard

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