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What is the name of your state? New York
I'll try to keep a very long story short. I am a board member for this football league. A father "Pete", is an ex-board member/ex-coach. His child has played on our league for 3 years. Pete willfully resigned on several "heated" occassions last season. When Pete approached the board this year and asked to be allowed back, we voted him out (mostly because he resigned last year).
Pete's son is "legally blind". For 2 years his son played on the smallest division, children cannot weigh more than 90 lbs. This year his son is moved up to the middle division (max weight 120lbs). His son can only play at center position (he is the kid that gives the ball to the quarterback). In the beginning of this season, the coaches were a bit concerned about this boys safety (limited upper body strength and inability to defend an inevitable tackle). They brought their concern to the board. The board took this to the father. The father, rather than discuss his childs safety and ways to resolve our concerns, decided to bring up the past and proceed to yell profanity and make verbal death threats toward an individual board member and the entire board and league. He threatened to sue us if anything happened to his child. Since this conversation did not accomplish what we had set out to do (protect his child), the board decided to have the coaches work with this child to teach him defense techniques and build his upper body strength. We thought this was working.
Last weekend, for unknown reasons, Pete verbally attacked one of his childs coaches. This is a direct violation of our Code of Conduct, and since he is an ex member, he is aware of this. Pete yelled profanity loudly, and made a verbal attack towards the coaches daughter (an innocent bystander).
Monday am we received a phone call from Pete, requesting copies of all paperwork that he had signed at sign-ups and for a copy of our by-laws.
The father signed: a form stating he was aware of any/all personal injury risks, that he had read and would comply with the Code of Conduct, and that he would not sue us in the event of personal injury to his child.
While it has not been stated thus far...we believe that Pete feels we have discriminated against his son by not allowing him to play "enough" to please dad. Our minimum play rule is 8 plays per game. The child has played minimum play for all games (more for some of the games).
What now? Does he have a case? What should we do to prepare ourselves?
We are a non-for profit organization...all of our funds come from booster club fund raisers. Attorney fees would drain us. HELP...can we save our kids football league. How can we stop this man from manipulating us? Restraining order?
I'll try to keep a very long story short. I am a board member for this football league. A father "Pete", is an ex-board member/ex-coach. His child has played on our league for 3 years. Pete willfully resigned on several "heated" occassions last season. When Pete approached the board this year and asked to be allowed back, we voted him out (mostly because he resigned last year).
Pete's son is "legally blind". For 2 years his son played on the smallest division, children cannot weigh more than 90 lbs. This year his son is moved up to the middle division (max weight 120lbs). His son can only play at center position (he is the kid that gives the ball to the quarterback). In the beginning of this season, the coaches were a bit concerned about this boys safety (limited upper body strength and inability to defend an inevitable tackle). They brought their concern to the board. The board took this to the father. The father, rather than discuss his childs safety and ways to resolve our concerns, decided to bring up the past and proceed to yell profanity and make verbal death threats toward an individual board member and the entire board and league. He threatened to sue us if anything happened to his child. Since this conversation did not accomplish what we had set out to do (protect his child), the board decided to have the coaches work with this child to teach him defense techniques and build his upper body strength. We thought this was working.
Last weekend, for unknown reasons, Pete verbally attacked one of his childs coaches. This is a direct violation of our Code of Conduct, and since he is an ex member, he is aware of this. Pete yelled profanity loudly, and made a verbal attack towards the coaches daughter (an innocent bystander).
Monday am we received a phone call from Pete, requesting copies of all paperwork that he had signed at sign-ups and for a copy of our by-laws.
The father signed: a form stating he was aware of any/all personal injury risks, that he had read and would comply with the Code of Conduct, and that he would not sue us in the event of personal injury to his child.
While it has not been stated thus far...we believe that Pete feels we have discriminated against his son by not allowing him to play "enough" to please dad. Our minimum play rule is 8 plays per game. The child has played minimum play for all games (more for some of the games).
What now? Does he have a case? What should we do to prepare ourselves?
We are a non-for profit organization...all of our funds come from booster club fund raisers. Attorney fees would drain us. HELP...can we save our kids football league. How can we stop this man from manipulating us? Restraining order?