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I am a HS coach and I am running into a situation I have never had an issue with before. Typically, I would cut this person on previous year behavior. My assistant and I are instructed to tell the AD who we are cutting and why, usually it is b/c of a score range situation.
We have a girl who was an 11th grader on JV last season. Without going into too much detail, she worked hard over the summer so we gave her some "privileges" such as JV captain and other things. When the going got tough on JV, she quit b/c she just couldn't manage to get along w/ the "younger girls" and found another more important activity. My gut is no matter what she scores, cut her. We don't need that attitude.
Typically if the girl leaves the team for a humble reason, they would have a home with us, but this reason is just too much for me.
We spoke w/ the AD b/c her and parents came to the pre-tryout meeting which was completely unexpected. He said, I can not cut her unless she scores low and obviously I can not fix the scores, plus I video tape so you would see that she isn't a terrible cheerleader. He usually completely backs me up and supports anything I want but acted like we were wrong in this situation of knowing ahead of time we want to cut her. The JV coach last year said she never wore the right practice outfit, was not a good leader, tried to make things optional, etc. Her leaving the team was a blessing, the only reason she wasn't asked to leave was it was late in the season and we just wanted to get through drama free and we spoke to her a number of times about all of this and her mother, we had actually benched her from an important game last season because of attitude and missing. We told him all of this and he suggested a meeting w/ her and parents during tryout week to address the concerns as we can't ask her not to tryout. He is aware the answers she is going to give will be what "we" want to hear.
He usually backs me up and I feel like if she scores well, we will have to take her. All I can think of is have a 10 point scale on questions/interview/past history and maybe she will fail there?
Any thoughts would be welcome!!! I can not take this girl nor am I willing to take a chance on people saying I fix scores, however, without his backing, I am stuck in a hole.
Has anyone been in a situation where you have felt pressured to take someone that was not a good fit?
We have a girl who was an 11th grader on JV last season. Without going into too much detail, she worked hard over the summer so we gave her some "privileges" such as JV captain and other things. When the going got tough on JV, she quit b/c she just couldn't manage to get along w/ the "younger girls" and found another more important activity. My gut is no matter what she scores, cut her. We don't need that attitude.
Typically if the girl leaves the team for a humble reason, they would have a home with us, but this reason is just too much for me.
We spoke w/ the AD b/c her and parents came to the pre-tryout meeting which was completely unexpected. He said, I can not cut her unless she scores low and obviously I can not fix the scores, plus I video tape so you would see that she isn't a terrible cheerleader. He usually completely backs me up and supports anything I want but acted like we were wrong in this situation of knowing ahead of time we want to cut her. The JV coach last year said she never wore the right practice outfit, was not a good leader, tried to make things optional, etc. Her leaving the team was a blessing, the only reason she wasn't asked to leave was it was late in the season and we just wanted to get through drama free and we spoke to her a number of times about all of this and her mother, we had actually benched her from an important game last season because of attitude and missing. We told him all of this and he suggested a meeting w/ her and parents during tryout week to address the concerns as we can't ask her not to tryout. He is aware the answers she is going to give will be what "we" want to hear.
He usually backs me up and I feel like if she scores well, we will have to take her. All I can think of is have a 10 point scale on questions/interview/past history and maybe she will fail there?
Any thoughts would be welcome!!! I can not take this girl nor am I willing to take a chance on people saying I fix scores, however, without his backing, I am stuck in a hole.
Has anyone been in a situation where you have felt pressured to take someone that was not a good fit?