John
Phoenix,#2Author of original report
Sat, September 20, 2014
Mr. Tibbetts, I've met you before and found you to be an honest man who's most interested in making sure that the kids are the most important element of youth sports; however, your either mistaken in this matter or you're being outright dishonest.
1) You say that you were involved in the investigation of what happened in the game in question. This makes no sense. For one, you're in San Antonio, and this incident was in Phoenix. Second, and most importantly, another parent on the team emailed you asking for help, as they had your email from previous dealings with NYS; she shared your email with the team parents, and you were very clear that you could not and would not get involved in this matter.
2) You've keyed on one statement of mine in a post on Ripoff Report to try to indicate in some way that I'm an example of what's wrong with NYS. That's entirely not the case. While this coach was laughing and pointing at a little girl, crying on the basketball court because another child picked her up and threw her to the floor, I was rushing over to assist. I've never sworn in front of any child on this team and I never will. But I have a really hard time finding a word other than "d***" to describe a coach ordering his teenage players to purposely try to injure 10-11-year-old kids on another team. If you really were involved in any sort of investigation into this matter, you would know that parents heard this coach repeatedly order his players to "break his kneecaps" and "elbow him in the face". And you're keying on my language? That's absurd.
Mr. Tibbetts, I know you've seen this franchise here in Phoenix go downhill. Don't try to pretend otherwise. Kids are going to get hurt, and it shouldn't be like this.
John
Phoenix,#3Author of original report
Wed, September 17, 2014
Mr Tibbetts, you're clearly mistaken for a number of reasons:
This was in Phoenix. At the time this happened, you were working in San Antonio. I'm absolutely sure of this because one of the other parents on the team even emailed you and you said you couldn't help us. I also know very well that you weren't involved in the "investigation" of this matter.
Paul, I actually met you on a couple occasions, as my son has been in NYS basketball for a while. I watched as the programs progressively got worse and worse from season to season; to pretend you don't know how bad things got with NYS here in Phoenix is just sad.
As far as my language, I don't talk like this at games; the only thing I said at this particular game was, "Coach, stop laughing at her, she's hurt". I talk like that when it's appropriate, and when you have a coach shouting at his players to "take their knees out" and "elbow him in the face", he's a d***.
Paul, I thought higher of you than this.
Garrett
Phoenix,#4Author of original report
Sun, December 21, 2003
It looks like an email I sent to their public relations firm worked...I got a check overnighted to me!