[EricH]

Originally Posted by Monochron

Frankly, the administration may not even listen to your side of the story until you have tried to resolve it with your Coach.

I think this is probably the most true thing here: If you haven't at least tried to talk it over, the administration's likely response is going to be along the lines of "work it out" or "so quit" or something similar.

But if you have tried to work it out, and failed, then you have a much stronger case. THEN you can go to the administration and say "I tried to work this [lousy situation] out with the coach, thus and such happened, I don't think this team will survive the year because [insert reasons here], is there anything you can do to keep this team alive and representing the school?"

--Keep some notes at the meeting. That way the next time this comes up, you can refer to them and say "well, the last time this happened, the team did this, that, and the other, and as a result we changed these things but not these things and this is what resulted from THAT." Or maybe you bring them with you on any trips to administration--take notes there, too, if you do end up going that route.