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Originally Posted by 1990C4S
I would too, if he apologized for calling him out in front of the whole team. And copied all the other players on the email.
You don't call out a ten year old kid in front of the team. Maybe you tell him and his parents that if he gets in better shape he could be a great player.
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I'd generally agree, but -- just like disciplining children -- coaching can require that you find what works for each
individual child.
It sounds like this coach read this 10-year-old right; calling him out in front of his teammates ("peer pressure") seems to have worked.
I don't know if it was "planned" that way; and would agree that it could be damaging to a 10-year-old to be singled out that way, but again, in this case, it seems to have worked and it may have had an effect on the whole team -- with other members working harder so that
they wouldn't risk being "called out" in the same way.
The coach may have singled him out because he thought "he could take it."