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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
i happen to think your approach is ingenious and should be applauded. how many times have we heard of the parents getting involved, only for the kid to rebel further and maybe even start into some more serious drugs. you let the kid make his own decisions, and it's awesome that you just didn't kick him off the team. that would have been the easy way out. instead he had to figure out for himself which was more important, the sport or pot. sounds like he made the right choice
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Originally Posted by Berger_4_
Hmmm...that's actually a really good way of dealing with it. I too wouldn't have told his parents, but making the little punk skate his guts out would probably get you farther along than sitting him. At least that way he doesn't have time to sit on the bench and stew about how big a dick his coach is.
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Thanks guys, at least I didnt screw up nearly as bad as I could have. I certainly didnt solve any of this kid's problems, at the end of the season the only thing he thanked me for was not telling his parents.
No thanks for the countless hours of tireless hard work or anything....
But I thought it was the best thing to do at the time. I was wary of asking anyone else for advice, not even my own assistant coaches, actually, especially not my assistants as they were parents of other kids, but in the end I thought it went over well.