All the stuff that fans never see

If I could only coach, I would be in heaven. Unfortunately, like everything else in the world, there aspects of coaching that drive me crazy.

For example, shoes. Organizing a shoe purchase is a massive undertaking. First, you have to pick the shoe? Having 15 girls come to an agreement on a shoe is nearly impossible, and usually the shoe they pick looks like a clown shoe.

Then you have to get the sizes of each player. That may be easy, but what if your girls are buying a boy shoe? Does the shoe run small or large? Does it make me look too fat or too skinny? Did I mention that I don't like the shoe?

Only after ordering the shoe does the company tell you that 30% of the shoe sizes you ordered are not in stock. They do "think" they'll have some next week, but they're not sure.

When the shoes you have ordered come in, most of them don't fit and it is a mix and match game to see whose will fit and whose won't.

I haven't even mentioned collecting the money.

This is just the first of many headaches. We ordered sweats and Tshirts and that is a lesser disaster.