Frank Martin on coaching from the stands! (Full HD)
Channel: Sempose Fitness
Date: 2018-03-23

Francisco Jose "Frank" Martin is an American basketball coach and the current head coach for the University of South Carolina men's basketball team.


"With all due respect to most parents out there... I probably know more about basketball than most of them. But I sit in the stands and I don’t say a word." There’s two guys refereeing a fourth-grade game on a Sunday morning. What could they possibly be making? 20 bucks a game? ... So on a Sunday morning instead of being at church, those guys are out there trying to make a couple bucks, to pay their bills, feed their families.

"Do you think they really care what fourth-grade team wins? Do you really think that they like sat at home and said, ‘Oh I can’t wait to officiate that game tomorrow, because that one team, I can’t wait to get that 10-year-old kid and embarrass him in front of people.’ Do you really think that’s what they’re doing?"

Martin went on to talk about the sacrifices that coaches make. They give up free time to help coach and then have to endure listening to parents who think they know more than the coaches


"So there’s someone that's giving up their personal time on a Sunday, for free, to help other people’s children, yet we’re gonna have the adults in the stands yelling obscenities at the officials?" Martin said. "Criticizing every decision the coach makes? Yelling at the kids, like the kids — they’re 10 years old, man. Like if they're a LeBron James and Dwyane Wade playing in the NBA Finals, like they know how to handle their coach over here and their parent over here yelling at them.

"Then we wonder why kids get confused man, why kids rebel, why kids don’t know how to listen."

Martin said that if a parent really wants to be vocal, he or she should consider coaching the team and then they can "yell all you want."

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