Let's Talk Frustration

It is difficult enough to coach in and of itself, but add the facts that I am a 21 year old girl and my team is a bunch of 17 year old boys then there is a credibility problem. My kids are finally starting to take me seriously, but they are such flirts that I feel like I have to be mean sometimes just so that they will listen! Making last night's practice even worse was adding the 16s team to our practice - we had 18 people on the floor at one time! They could not pay attention or keep their heads in the drills because there were so many of them. I absolutely cannot handle such a huge group, and I hate that we have to add the 16s to our limited practice time! Hopefully we won't have to share the courts much longer because I am never going to get my team where they need to be skill wise if we can't do drills - and the reason we can't drill is because the youngins have no respect for me, the game, or their own skills!