Column: The Lesson Youth Sports Parents Need To Take From “Coach Frogg” Arrest

I want to speak about maintaining our young athletes harmless from sexual predators.

This 7 days audio surfaced of a single of the most infamous non-public coaches in the nation producing inappropriate remarks to a young female. He seemed to be asking her to go to the movies, and rebuking her for declaring no.

That mentor was Chris Flores, who also goes by Coach Frogg. 

Coach Frogg was the co-founder of Stars Academy, and the co-founder of Concentrations Athletics Team– an arrangement that permitted him to teach some of the most elite young athletes in California, and then transfer them into a organization relationship to support them protected Name, Graphic and Likeness discounts. He was a nicely linked individual, and the essential phrase right here is ‘was.’

Coach Frogg went from throwing periods with Patrick Mahomes, and hanging out in Tuscaloosa with Nick Saban, to obtaining booked on a number of counts of sexual assault of a insignificant.

He went from getting a stable of prep, college or university and NFL consumers, including some of the top rated ranked players in this year’s graduating class, and the defending Heisman and Biletnikoff winners, to owning his mugshot spread nationwide.
The gentleman has thrown away a lot more than can match in a dumpster.

Police are stating they anticipate a number of more victims to come ahead, and if you have been subsequent the situation as it unfolds, you know that Mentor Frogg is no stranger to accusations of impropriety in the California youth athletics community.

Every single time something like this occurs, communities appear with each other in shock. They grieve for the victims, and then re-litigate what could have been carried out to reduce the tragedy of obtaining a disgusting evil loser prey on their children’s aspirations, and rob them of their innocence.

You generally hear folks say “I hardly ever anticipated this in my group,” but at this issue, why shouldn’t you? If you Googled “Coach arrested” this 7 days to get data about the Chris Flores situation, you would have experienced to form as a result of tales in Indiana, Montana, Florida, Pennsylvania and Colorado just to get to this a single. 

Look, Not only am I a father, I’m a father of several little ones actively playing youth athletics at a substantial amount appropriate below in California. I’ll be the first to admit that I really do not constantly know the very best way to challenge or assistance my youngsters in their athletic pursuits. 
I do know that I was taught that superior competition indicates much better final results, so it would make entire perception to me that there is an Academy exactly where the best of the greatest can sharpen each and every other’s abilities. And as extended as it’s what your kid wishes to do, and as extended as it is not using away from their time to be a kid, I’m not likely to tell a further mum or dad that they are in the erroneous.

But I do want mom and dad of younger athletes to consider a instant to examine their hearts, and question by themselves if their motives may well build an option for blind spots when it comes to having folks with lousy intent close to their youngsters.
We’re all wise plenty of to inform our little ones not to choose candy from a stranger with a windowless van, but if that candy is stars or scholarships or NIL dollars, some of us will select up our youngsters and toss them into the van ourselves.