Former Players On Ferentz’s Impact





I had a kid this year that played a little varsity, but not enough to letter. Not even close. The day after the awards were handed out, the kid's dad wanted to meet with me. We sat down and he went through the "you play favorites", "you hate my kid", etc. I asked him what makes him think that. He said that his son played varsity and should've lettered. His son really wanted to letter is upset about it and his mom and I are mad that he didn't get the letter he wanted.

I pulled a total dick move. Before we met, I got a varsity letter certificate and filled it out with his name on it. When the dad gave me the line about how thought his kid should've lettered, I pulled it out and gave it to him.
He said, "what's this?"
I said, "it's his varsity letter".
"What?"
"You, your wife, and your kid wanted him to letter, so there it is. He lettered."
"I don't want this."
"Oh. I guess if you changed your mind, I can take it back."
Crickets...and he got up and left. Took the letter with him though. The only thing I heard was the AD in his office next door laughing.
 


I had a kid this year that played a little varsity, but not enough to letter. Not even close. The day after the awards were handed out, the kid's dad wanted to meet with me. We sat down and he went through the "you play favorites", "you hate my kid", etc. I asked him what makes him think that. He said that his son played varsity and should've lettered. His son really wanted to letter is upset about it and his mom and I are mad that he didn't get the letter he wanted.

I pulled a total dick move. Before we met, I got a varsity letter certificate and filled it out with his name on it. When the dad gave me the line about how thought his kid should've lettered, I pulled it out and gave it to him.
He said, "what's this?"
I said, "it's his varsity letter".
"What?"
"You, your wife, and your kid wanted him to letter, so there it is. He lettered."
"I don't want this."
"Oh. I guess if you changed your mind, I can take it back."
Crickets...and he got up and left. Took the letter with him though. The only thing I heard was the AD in his office next door laughing.
Love this.

I had something similar but not totally the same my first year so I started putting the criteria right towards the front of the packet I handed out to parents during the preseason meeting.

Our school is crazy easy to letter (criteria was made decades ago). For a baseball letter you just have to play in at least as many innings as there are games. So 25 innings if there were 25 varsity games. We also obviously allow coach’s discretion but I never put that part in the packet :)

I gave a letter once to a senior who was terrible at baseball but only played one inning and one AB in senior night because he was the nicest kid ever, never missed a practice in 4 years, was the first one out on the field working on it after games, hauled gear to/from the bus even when I told him he didn’t have to because it was the freshmen’s job, etc. Parents were awesome too and they came up and talked to me after every game very pleasantly and never about PT or anything like that. He played his heart out every JV game.

Nobody ever complained about it
 


It states that 31 of 32 teams have drafted a Ferentz coached player. Jacksonville is the one team that has not. During that time, they've won 38% of their games...
Lol. Ironically in all this, Jacksonville is the one NFL team that coach Ferentz might have thought to jumping to coach in the NFL. I think the only serious rumors years ago.
 


It is obviously the cause of their futility. Isn't that the franchise that almost hired KF early in his tenure? Clearly, these guys could have had 5 SB titles by now if they had just bought into all things Iowa.
They might not have had great QB play, but damn, they'd have a solid O-line & punting.
 


I had a kid this year that played a little varsity, but not enough to letter. Not even close. The day after the awards were handed out, the kid's dad wanted to meet with me. We sat down and he went through the "you play favorites", "you hate my kid", etc. I asked him what makes him think that. He said that his son played varsity and should've lettered. His son really wanted to letter is upset about it and his mom and I are mad that he didn't get the letter he wanted.

I pulled a total dick move. Before we met, I got a varsity letter certificate and filled it out with his name on it. When the dad gave me the line about how thought his kid should've lettered, I pulled it out and gave it to him.
He said, "what's this?"
I said, "it's his varsity letter".
"What?"
"You, your wife, and your kid wanted him to letter, so there it is. He lettered."
"I don't want this."
"Oh. I guess if you changed your mind, I can take it back."
Crickets...and he got up and left. Took the letter with him though. The only thing I heard was the AD in his office next door laughing.
Entitled freaking pricks. Sad thing is we are generations down the line now having these kinds of individuals raising kids who will in turn, turn out the same or worse when raising their kids.
 




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