How to Treat Parents

When it comes to this, Coach Mumm pulls out all the stops.

This is our last regular season home game, so Coach Mumm is pulling out all the stops for his senior parents. There's none of this just walking out with Mom and Dad or the obligatory "We'd like to thank all the parents for their efforts" announcements prior to games.

This is a family. And that's not the typical cliche in our program.

Tonight Coach has the basement of the Evergreen reserved. Seniors will arrive and then sit with their parents. First Coach will speak and then his guest will speak. After that, the seniors will each give their mothers a rose and then hand them the letter or card that Coach had them write their parents thanking them for all they have done. Then they will sit down for dinner.

Tomorrow prior to the game, the senior parents will be invited into the locker room for the pre-game speech (what other coach would do that?) and then lead the seniors out onto the field for the game.

That's class. And Coach Mumm is first class all the way.