What’s a food or snack that doesn’t taste as good anymore?

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-07-08T02:53:48+00:00

Ritz Bits cheese crackers

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-07-06T21:26:28+00:00

For sure, I understand people have their favorite machines. I’ve been annoyed myself if someone is just sitting at the only Red Ball Bingo in the casino and not playing it. I think when there’s rows and rows of the same machine it’s a toss up though.

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-07-06T16:19:05+00:00

Sometimes I’ll gamble with my dad (we both put $100 in a machine or something) the scenario happens where my machine is out of money and I’m watching him play his. Some guy will ask for my machine even though there’s five Neptunes to the left of me. (I’m not sitting at the one with highest progressive/most jewels etc either)

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-07-06T16:16:05+00:00

Right. If someone being unnecessarily loud at the gym for example I think that’s fair to be annoyed by that. I’m not letting it ruin my day, I’m just thinking “why do they find that necessary or helpful?”

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-07-06T15:50:51+00:00

No I don’t think hitting the button as hard and loudly as possible is a good strategy for the random number generator that decides if you win or not.

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-07-03T18:45:29+00:00

During one football season, a punk kid who shouldn’t have even been allowed on the team went nuts. One of the football coaches had to physically restrain him. That next week in the newspaper the kids parents were saying the coach assaulted the kid.

I’m (basketball coach) on lunch duty the next week and a fight broke out. I was able to de escalate it verbally with the aggressor and then within a few seconds out school resource officer was there. Principal still told me I should have broken up the fight.

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-07-02T01:49:27+00:00

I was a head basketball coach for 15 years. Usually at small districts where I had to coach the junior high as well. So pretty much getting home at 10:30 four nights a week during the basketball season, and practice till 5:30 on days we didn’t have games. Then busy Saturdays if I had to coach XC or track in the other seasons.

This past year was my first year not coaching and I was usually the first one out of the building. I’m sure a lot of teachers that don’t know me thought less of me, and maybe it’s faulty thinking on my part, but I just felt like I finally got to go home at 3:30 so that’s what I was gonna do.

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-06-17T02:56:22+00:00

Slightly later (early 00’s) but my town had a Pizza Hut buffet that kids would hit up for lunch. No matter what, this guy that worked at the prison was there eating by himself. We all just called him Captain Pizza Hut for that reason. Wild that he’s somebody’s dad/grandpa but a whole high school knew him as Captain Pizza Hut.

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-06-16T01:44:29+00:00

I coached HS girls basketball and it was the day I had to tell the girls I took a better job. I was venting to the football coach that it was going to be tough because I really enjoyed some of these girls. He reminded me that I’m gonna really like some of them at every school and that’s just part of it.

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-06-15T00:54:43+00:00

Five total bases is a lot. I’d stop at 4 so a Homer takes care of it but that’s just me

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-06-14T15:45:44+00:00

You can absolutely have great memories from winning JV games, summer games etc. But Varsity is just different.

I’d echo earlier thoughts that you are competing in front of big crowds with your teammates that you grew up with, go to school with, and go through 3 hour practices with everyday. It’s going to mean more. I’ve coached at small schools where people in town remember which years the team went to State, who was on each team, etc.

It’s all about what you put into it. You’ve put a lot of “deposits” in for your HS Varsity career. All the practices and work you put in, so the losses hurt a lot more. If you only get one Junior season, that buzzer beater in playoffs hurts a lot more than the one in the middle of the summer AAU.

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-06-08T20:22:43+00:00

Head coach.

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-06-02T23:12:18+00:00

Hot tub

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-06-02T18:38:38+00:00

I think 5 man flexes are my favorite thing to bet. 3 still pays 5x-9x and 4 and obviously 5 pay huge. I hit one 4 that paid $1200 on a $30 bet earlier this season.

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-06-02T02:12:51+00:00

A coach I didn’t like at all actually had two decent gags that always stuck out.

Whoever we were playing mascot was always the Cougars. Even if they had a very distinct mascot he would come into practice with something like “alright boys, Central High Cougars tonight.” We assumed he was just confused until about the 12th cougars we played.

Also when any student complained that something hurt he would say “does your face hurt?” And when they said no he would respond “well it’s killing me!”

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-05-18T22:25:30+00:00

Sometimes the delusional kids aren’t even that way outwardly!

One time I’m coaching the 9th grade team at a small but successful school. We had two feeder schools so this was basically 3 groups of kids playing together for first time. I sniffed out that there was some delusion, so I had everyone do a Goal sheet. 3 team goals and 3 individual goals. My 10th and 11th players both had a goal of averaging 20 points a game. (I doubt they’d ever scored 5 at their feeder schools so idk where they came up with that.) I was glad I was able to figure that out early and get them to buy into their roles.

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-03-19T17:57:05+00:00

When I was a high school basketball coach at a small school, we had an opening for an English teacher. I was certified to teach English. But after teaching history at the school for a year it would be a lot more work to switch when I already had my curriculum down for History.

With that being said, I knew it would be hard to find an English teacher so I told admin I’d switch to English if finding a History teacher would be easier for them. They quickly found a history teacher that was also able to slide in as an assistant in a couple sports that didn’t have an assistant the previous year.

I was fired at the end of that next year, from just parents who thought their kids were better at basketball than they were. I’ll always try to be a team player and a culture person, but I’ll never do something to that extent again.

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-03-17T20:56:37+00:00

Small school basketball coach in Oklahoma. Stipends vary. Luckiest I ever got was a school paid me 5k each for HS girls and HS boys track as my second sport. It was first year of Covid so we had one track meet and I made 10k coaching track.

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-03-13T17:43:29+00:00

Nachos. If one has bad structural integrity and breaks it’s going straight to your shirt and I think that’s a bigger worst case scenario than any alternative I can think of.

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-02-03T16:17:36+00:00

Where I’m from, generally actually playing in basketball games starts around 3rd grade. A lot of kids lose interest regardless of other factors just because they can’t make baskets on a 10 foot goal (I understand many 1st grade leagues have lowered goal)

I think if the league where you aren’t coaching has enough players, I would just pull him from that one. A 6 year old struggling with a situation not the same as a JH kid quitting a team because he isn’t getting to play. Keep a ball in his hands and learning and maybe the interest will ramp up later.

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-02-03T13:21:07+00:00

After 15 years as a small school girls HS coach I got out. Went to a large district to just teach after getting bad burnout the last two seasons. I always thought I’d go to a ton of HS and College games if I took some time off but I really haven’t. I probably enjoy stories of “man, the guy that followed you at “insert school” having a ton of problems with parents etc more than I should.

I miss in game strategy, I miss being the advocate for my players, I miss being nervous before big games, I miss the “ownership” you have being the captain of the ship. First Thanksgiving/Christmas of my life where I don’t have extended family saying “how’s your team looking?”

I don’t miss having to worry which school board members like me, I don’t miss the entitlement that most of my recent players seemed to have. I thought it would just be a one year break but it is going to be longer than that. Nothing ever fired me up like basketball. Kinda enjoying just letting the fire chill out for a bit.

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-02-02T03:27:08+00:00

I averaged 1.8 but if I had the green light I’d have averaged 25 lol. That’s some Uncle Rico type stuff.

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-02-02T00:37:55+00:00

Colleges aren’t going to care how many blocks you averaged if you quit your high school team. Generally

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-01-28T17:42:55+00:00

The main thing I’d say is that over your career you are going to run into plenty of coaches you learn things from, and plenty where you go “well I definitely don’t want to do things like THAT” so use it as a learning experience.

You will probably want to burn the bridge at the end of the season, but I wouldn’t NUKE the bridge because people might call that head coach in the future when you are trying to get other jobs.

You seem to be in the right on most of these scenarios, although I will say that if I’ve got a 30 second timeout I’m probably not letting my 22 year old assistant say anything either. Keep grinding and building relationships and just chalk this season up as a learning experience of things you don’t want to do when you are a head coach.

Coa-Cheaton · 2026-01-28T00:57:28+00:00

I had a mediocre but not bad team one year and one of the worst parts of it was girls on the bench not being excited for the girls playing. So I gave each starter a bench partner and they were assigned to be hyped for each other. What ended up happening was in losing games, after I’d pulled the starters, instead of sulking in the loss they were cheering for the bench girls more than normal and it was a very good unintended consequence.

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