Pool player families and their aggression towards critics

[SUPERSTAR]

Is this what pool has devolved into these days?

Someone makes a comment about them, and their families lose their sh*t and make asses of themselves all over social media?

All that's gonna do is bring more focus on the players in question, which means more criticism. Good job.

It's like watching families at Little League games, wrestling matches, or whatever other sports where little Johnny didn't get all the ref favoritism and audience fanfare the families wanted with parents losing it.

How utterly embarrassing.

One thing for sure, I will never expect ANY professionalism from the players who's families act like this. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree IMO.

If I was a major sponsor, those would be the players that got overlooked unless they publicly denounced their family's actions. I don't care how good they might play.

No wonder American pool is going into the toilet.

 

[garczar]

What are you referring to? An actual occurence? As for social media just wtf do you expect? Its a complete zoo not to be taken seriously.

 

[skogstokig]

don't think it's a pool specific thing. some people are just like this

 

[garczar]

don't think it's a pool specific thing. some people are just like this

It sounds like he's referring to a specific happening. I agree on the soc. media deal, its a total shitstorm that no one should take seriously.

 

[bbb]

Is this what pool has devolved into these days?

Someone makes a comment about them, and their families lose their sh*t and make asses of themselves all over social media?

All that's gonna do is bring more focus on the players in question, which means more criticism. Good job.

It's like watching families at Little League games, wrestling matches, or whatever other sports where little Johnny didn't get all the ref favoritism and audience fanfare the families wanted with parents losing it.

How utterly embarrassing.

One thing for sure, I will never expect ANY professionalism from the players who's families act like this. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree IMO.

If I was a major sponsor, those would be the players that got overlooked unless they publicly denounced their family's actions. I don't care how good they might play.

No wonder American pool is going into the toilet.

you should go watch a juniors tennis match!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[skogstokig]

It sounds like he's referring to a specific happening. I agree on the soc. media deal, its a total shitstorm that no one should take seriously.

billy thorpe sr lost his shit on facebook apparently. it's in the mosconi thread

 

[garczar]

billy thorpe sr lost his shit on facebook apparently. it's in the mosconi thread

i saw one post of his on FB and it was pretty calm. His gf kinda went off on the hotel room. All i saw, nothing to warrant being butthurt over it.

 

[Johnson]

you should go watch a juniors tennis match!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I played junior tourneys in the 90's and never witnessed any parents acting out, tourneys would start on a friday and typically there may not even be any parents there but even if they were they weren't instigating drama. I coached hs tennis and there weren't any issues with the parents but watching my older nephew play travel baseball was a completely different story!!

I always thought that the elite tennis players in the state who's dads were either doctors or lawyers were the most spoiled kids until I watched my older nephew race 4 wheelers. One family had an RV with basically a garage in the rear and a motorized ramp to lift bikes/4 wheelers into it!!

 

[Johnson]

The Mosconi is it's own unique circus and even if I don't agree with how some of the parents react to well deserved criticism I find it more comedic than concerning. Most sane parents would be proud that their kid made it to the pinnacle of their chosen profession no matter if they win dominantly or lose tragically it's still an overall net positive. I think it just sets up an even more intriguing 2026 Mosconi from what changes are made event wise/crowd wise and team selection wise.

 

[bbb]

I played junior tourneys in the 90's and never witnessed any parents acting out, tourneys would start on a friday and typically there may not even be any parents there but even if they were they weren't instigating drama. I coached hs tennis and there weren't any issues with the parents but watching my older nephew play travel baseball was a completely different story!!

I always thought that the elite tennis players in the state who's dads were either doctors or lawyers were the most spoiled kids until I watched my older nephew race 4 wheelers. One family had an RV with basically a garage in the rear and a motorized ramp to lift bikes/4 wheelers into it!!

i hear lots of stories about junior tennis with the kids cheating the parents sharking the other kid etc
glad your experiences were better

 

[couldnthinkof01]

You guys should have seen the drunk dads at my hockey games as a kid.
This is mild.

Quit messing with little Billy

 

[jeephawk]

Is this what pool has devolved into these days?

Someone makes a comment about them, and their families lose their sh*t and make asses of themselves all over social media?

All that's gonna do is bring more focus on the players in question, which means more criticism. Good job.

It's like watching families at Little League games, wrestling matches, or whatever other sports where little Johnny didn't get all the ref favoritism and audience fanfare the families wanted with parents losing it.

How utterly embarrassing.

One thing for sure, I will never expect ANY professionalism from the players who's families act like this. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree IMO.

If I was a major sponsor, those would be the players that got overlooked unless they publicly denounced their family's actions. I don't care how good they might play.

No wonder American pool is going into the toilet.

Jeez, already discussed ad nauseam in the Mosconi thread - nothing to get all self righteous about, IMO. My Dad doesn’t go near social media, lol, but no reason to fault a parent for having his kid’s back.

One post so far as I know - hey, all the world and especially social media influencers get to spout whatever they want 24/7 - they can handle a little bit of pushback and frankly, are likely enjoying the extra clicks.

 

[trob]

People that have any fame and our intelligent use social media to post to because it’s just the world we live in but then never look at the comments. What you’re talking about goes on in all sports. Some famous basketball player takes shit on twitter and his momma has to get on and make a fool of herself and him. Social media could have been amazing but it’s turned into poison

Btw you must be new to the game I guess . Pool is doing better then it’s done in a long time . It wasn’t but less then 10 years ago that there was only a couple major tournaments and you were watching pro’s play in the local pa 9 ball championship just trying to earn a little money to eat. We are now far from that with payouts continually rising. We are in a better place then we have been since the early to mid 90s

 

[JPB2]

I played junior tourneys in the 90's and never witnessed any parents acting out, tourneys would start on a friday and typically there may not even be any parents there but even if they were they weren't instigating drama. I coached hs tennis and there weren't any issues with the parents but watching my older nephew play travel baseball was a completely different story!!

I always thought that the elite tennis players in the state who's dads were either doctors or lawyers were the most spoiled kids until I watched my older nephew race 4 wheelers. One family had an RV with basically a garage in the rear and a motorized ramp to lift bikes/4 wheelers into it!!

I am not a tennis person, but my parents were. My father was watching a high level junior tournament and saw a brother and sister leaving the tournament with their father and their trophies. You have heard of them. Brother is world class. Brother won that tournament, sister finished second in her division. Father yanked the trophy from her hands and threw it in the trash, saying stuff like we don’t finish second in this family etc…. Sounded nice.

 

[garczar]

Went to a LL game one time and a fkng riot broke out. Some soccer-mom didn't like little johnny getting struck out. That biach went BALLISTIC. they had to call the law. Funny as shit and sad at the same time. i played junior tennis for about 6yrs and i never saw any crazy stuff. you see videos all the time of parent riots at various ball games.

 

[Johnson]

I am not a tennis person, but my parents were. My father was watching a high level junior tournament and saw a brother and sister leaving the tournament with their father and their trophies. You have heard of them. Brother is world class. Brother won that tournament, sister finished second in her division. Father yanked the trophy from her hands and threw it in the trash, saying stuff like we don’t finish second in this family etc…. Sounded nice.

Andre Agassi's dad may of been the worst sports parent ever, specifically bought a house in Vegas w enough space to build a court and forced him to play every day. Jim Brown liked to play tennis and gamble and Andre's dad offered to stake Andre against him for $10,000 when Andre was like 10. Agassi's book Open is really good!

 

[Johnson]

i hear lots of stories about junior tennis with the kids cheating the parents sharking the other kid etc
glad your experiences were better

I had one kid call a cross court winner out that I knew was in and I went off on him, only his mom was watching and it threw me off my game and I lost the match. Locally a few years ago the top 2 players in the state went to rival schools in West Lafayette and were 1 year apart, the younger guy was a slight favorite but had a bad ankle. He kept cheating until the opponent called him out and said "Do you really want to win this way" they had a line judge after that and the guy who was cheating lost. Opponent won state and the younger guy won it the next year. If there's not a line judge the elite players (top 200 nationally) are more prone to cheat than anyone else, I saw it quite a bit when I coached high school but thankfully it wasn't against any of my players!

 

[JPB2]

Went to a 'coach pitch' LL game one time and a fkng riot broke out. Some soccer-mom didn't like little johnny getting struck out. That biach went BALLISTIC. they had to call the law. Funny as shit and sad at the same time. i played junior tennis for about 6yrs and i never saw any crazy stuff. you see videos all the time of parent riots at various ball games.

Saw some at ball games. I played hockey so I had no close interaction with the figure skating moms.

 

[MitchAlsup]

Is this what pool has devolved into these days?

Someone makes a comment about them, and their families lose their sh*t and make asses of themselves all over social media?

All that's gonna do is bring more focus on the players in question, which means more criticism.

Sounds a lot like the adults are part of the syndicate.
Thinking they (their family) is better than, more important than, more privileged than:: anyone else

I wonder if the association between pool and gambling has anything to do with it ??

 

[SUPERSTAR]

Quit messing with little Billy

I actually wasn't talking about Billy.