Somebody always ends up organizing the end of season dinner. Usually a coach, a booster president or a parent who volunteered in March and has been collecting money ever since. It is a real job, it is unpaid, and the reward for doing it well is a night spent standing up while everyone else eats.
We host a lot of these every season and more of them every year, because the teams who do it here come back. We know how the night runs. The slideshow, the speeches, the awards, the posters and the jerseys going up before the first family arrives. Tell us how you want the evening to go and it is set that way when they walk in, whether you are one long table or the whole room.
The rest of it is the part we care about more. You built the season. You should be at the table when it gets celebrated, watching the awards handed out and the speeches made, rather than counting plates at the back of the room. That work is ours.
