PhillyAl

Here is what Spike4 said about it in another thread. This person hit the nail on the head. "Ok, I've sat back and read enough....now, let's tell the whole truth without putting a spin on it: Coaches Agenda: 1.Get someone very close to him and put her on a level that HE THINKS she deserves 2. Give the same someone very close to him all the awards HE THINKS she should get. These things did not happen last year in club so...he puts together HIS OWN CLUB so he can call the shots and no one can tell him "she doesn't deserve it". Gotta hand it to him. That's what you call doing what you have to do! That's a dad that loves his kid right?!!" Now this is for real.

This topic is not about having a "perfect" club. This post is merely stating truths about what went on with Bearden Volleyball. There is nothing I wrote that is false. I'm not saying one club or one player or one coach is better than anyone else. I'm telling you what went on. Like it or not, condon it or not. It happened.It happened all year. Bearden volleyball was second fiddle to KVA. Believe it or not the Administartion at Bearden isn't very happy about it either. They may not have said anything to the parties involved but they aren't happy. I don't care who the coach is. This is not about the "coach". This is about how the girls were treated this year. They may be too young to understand and their parents may not explain it the way it should be but it was wrong. All in the name of the man upstairs though, so its supposed to look right. WHATEVER!!!

He was late because he didn't care about his teams banquet. Spike4...You knoweth what you speak!! You are a very smart person.

yea. i'm sure he felt aweful!!! Once again. He knew 4 months ago. It wasn't an accident. You don't go to the club event even if it was booked. You honor your team. The team that he chose to take responsabilty for. Again its just not about the banquet. Like I said its a pattern. He didn't double book by accident. I can tell you that. Before you book something, ask the many people on your team that are helping you. Hey when is our banquet. Oh i forgot..it was an accident.. That's funny..

you call knowing about your high schools banquet 4 months in advance and "poor planning and double booking"??? That funny!! No I haven't double booked when I knew 4 months in advance of an event. Sorry!!! There is no excuse.

First of all Wowdog I'm not "spreading trash". I'm on a message board that's about volleyball and these issues have been brought up before by other people and other coaches. See the first post. If you call what I said "trash" i would have to agree with you. The problem for you is, the "trash" is fact. Not rumor. A lot of rumors go on this site, but nothing I said is rumor. I don't speak "rumors". EVERYTHING in my post are true. I don't need to speak with the coach about anything. He can do what he wants to do. He can chose to put his club before his high school team. He can chose to be 30 minutes late for HIS high school teams banquet. He can chose to do anything he wants. I don't care. I merely told one of the posters on here (bigbluevolley) that he wasn't the only one with issues. Must have hit a nerve!!! So coach, continue your agenda. When you coach Bearden high school next year continue to be late because of club events. Continue everything as usual. It's fine. It will be talked about. Remember WOW...No rumors hear just THE TRUTH!!!!

BBV You are not going to get an answer for the groupies. The answer is that he scheduled an event at his club for the same day. He chose to be at his club event and then go to the Bearden Volleyball Banquet. 30 minutes late. Any way you look at it, it's wrong. As stated before, its not just about that one night. There's a pattern here and it's not a good one. I could care less which one he wants to do, but pick one. Club or high school. If you can't manage both then just pick one. The parents know exactly what a banquet should consist of and so does the administration. If the coach had no club and there weren't parents trying to get their girls placed on the team "they" think they should be placed on, then all of the parents would be upset. The parents are not showing their displeasure becuase in the "arena of club volleyball' the coach holds all the cards and if you piss the coach off you know what happens. He's a nice man but he is lost in the forrest of trying to build a club and also coach a high school team. Ask Bratman..He knows and speaks the truth

BBV It's not only that. It's also the times, when practice was scheduled from 4-6 and he cut it short in order to go "somewhere". Some times it would be an hour short. There were girls waiting for rides from 5 o'clock until 6 (when their parents were supposed to get them).He never waited with the girls. He was always the first out. wonder where he had to go. My daughter told me she learned more from one of her teammates than she did from the head coach. Is that sad? Please let me know if you think this is sad? How could you leave your players by themselves while waiting for a ride?

Bratman....You are TOTALLY correct. That is how all the other banquets I have been to were. They really honor the team and the coach just does a great job. Unfortunatley that's not what we have at Bearden. Our coach was late and then he went as quick as he could. Pretty pathetic if you ask me. Like I said, it will not happen that way next year. Next year will be a huge banquet. If you didn't know the girls you would have no idea who the seniors were. If you are going to coach don't do it just so you can help your daughter and your "new" club get what you think she and it deserves. Please do it for the love of the game and the love of the girls. This stuff with club is going too far.

BigBlue....Read all your post but never take the time to respond. I'm writing this to let you know that you are not the only one with a coach and an alterior agenda. Our volleyball coach at Bearden is the same way. The girls had their end of the year banquet last Friday. He was 30 minutes late to his own banquet. Now we knew the date of this event since July. He chose to have a major thing going on at his "new club" (kva). He couldn't even show up to his teams end of the year banquet on time due to his new club. When he got to the banquet he gave out some awards and had the asst coaches hand out goody bags and thats it. The AD spoke longer and kinder than he did. Now I've gone to many different school banquets and at ALL of them the coach recognized his seniors and talked about each of them individually. Not our coach. He didn't take the time to do any of that. He had 4 seniors on that team. One of which played JV the whole year, the other had had a tough time with back surgery, another who is signing with University of Louisville and another who played great all year. Never did he say anything about any of them. Not "this girl was a senior and never complained once about playing JV'. Not "this girl has stuck it out for 4 years even though she's had MAJOR back issues". Not "this one has played for Bearden since she was a freshman, played for the USA team and will sign with Louisville". Not "the last senior is a girl that always gave everything and played for 4 years and has truly gotten alot better". None of that was done for these girls. But i can promise you one thing. It will be different at next years banquet (i may or may not attend) because his daughter will be a senior. He hides behind "all in the glory of God" when he needs to. He started this new club behind the the disquise of "i'm doing it for the girls". We all know why he is doing it. It's a shame he isn't able to step back and look at what he is doing. Blinded by something. He has one agenda, the advancement of someone to prove to others something. Only he knows. Now that your coach (Bigblue) is gone looks like I will have to deal with this for a little while. I may be calling you for soome advice. Glad to see your's has left. I'm sure you are too!!