The dark, slimy underbelly of youth sports reared it's ugly head again tonight. DYF held it's annual meeting. Finally. It was only 4 months past due. This was going to be an interesting meeting. The main purposes of this gathering was for the association to vote to merge with DPW. I suspected going into it that it was going to be a slam dunk for the merger. However, true to form, the board went about the whole thing bass ackwards. They didn't present all the details and facts for the merger.
They were bold enough to ask for carte blanche on amending bylaws as needed to "facilitate the merger". Yet, they had secretly met on Sunday to try and name all the head coaches. This was not only against the parameters of he merger, but against their own DYF bylaws. In doing so, they took the opportunity to oust a long time head coach. This coach didn't have a child in the program (and hasn't for year), was on the board, and invested extensive hours into the programs including an annual clinic. The short version here is that some board members didn't like the offense this guy ran. Petty. Which, unfortunately, is not surprising.
The thing about backroom deal is that their Kryptonite is publicity. These tend to wilt when they see the light of day. Well, this group would never be mistaken for the CIA. The outcome of that meeting was known almost immediately and circulating around our small town. The focus of everyone's discussion during the annual meeting was "the kids". Well, the kids were impacted by this decision. They were furious. And the board tried to sweep it all under the rug. To say the annual meeting was a firestorm would be an understatement. But finally people got to see how this board operates. The emotion was centered around the coaching issues. The issue was trust. The board operated in bad faith, and presented a small amount of the facts, and got caught. Amazing isn't it? What is more amazing is that the motion passed to trust these individuals to amend the bylaws willy nilly.
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