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difficult child's crash course in darker side of being a pro athlete seems to continue
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 610464" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Took its time, but this situation is resolved to certain degree. Head coach was let go and also some of his assistants decided to walk away with him, including difficult child's positional coach. New head coach has been there a bit now already but they just yesterday brought in the new positional coach. New head coach is a solid pro by reputation, but positional coach is a downgrade. Very wet behind the ears as a coach, not much to tell as a player (not that good coach needs to have been an elite player, far from that; often best coaches have not been that good players themselves, but this guy is also new to coaching so total mystery.) Hopefully difficult child is able to handle it like a pro, but I don't have my hopes up. Dealing with authority figures is one thing he still has lot of work to do, and for him to cope even reasonably with them, he needs to have some respect for them. There is nothing in this guy's resume that would make difficult child to respect him as a pro. If difficult child lets that show, he is bound to make his own life much harder than necessary.</p><p></p><p>Still, difficult child is well aware that in this situation it is his job to impress his new coaches and that battle for playing time starts over more or less.</p><p></p><p>Hopefully tension inside the team calms down and difficult child can again be more comfortable at locker room and while travelling. Weeks of high tension have been taxing to him and he has been weary every time we have talked well over a month now. Hopefully coaching change also helps difficult child's flatmate to do better because if he will be let go, difficult child will be very alone out there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 610464, member: 14557"] Took its time, but this situation is resolved to certain degree. Head coach was let go and also some of his assistants decided to walk away with him, including difficult child's positional coach. New head coach has been there a bit now already but they just yesterday brought in the new positional coach. New head coach is a solid pro by reputation, but positional coach is a downgrade. Very wet behind the ears as a coach, not much to tell as a player (not that good coach needs to have been an elite player, far from that; often best coaches have not been that good players themselves, but this guy is also new to coaching so total mystery.) Hopefully difficult child is able to handle it like a pro, but I don't have my hopes up. Dealing with authority figures is one thing he still has lot of work to do, and for him to cope even reasonably with them, he needs to have some respect for them. There is nothing in this guy's resume that would make difficult child to respect him as a pro. If difficult child lets that show, he is bound to make his own life much harder than necessary. Still, difficult child is well aware that in this situation it is his job to impress his new coaches and that battle for playing time starts over more or less. Hopefully tension inside the team calms down and difficult child can again be more comfortable at locker room and while travelling. Weeks of high tension have been taxing to him and he has been weary every time we have talked well over a month now. Hopefully coaching change also helps difficult child's flatmate to do better because if he will be let go, difficult child will be very alone out there. [/QUOTE]
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