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Originally Posted by EricH
the administration is probably the only group that can effectively deal with it.
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I concur. Make it clear to whomever on the administration that you speak that in a few months, your new head coach has converted one viable (feel free to use stronger words like thriving if they're justified) team into two marginal (or worse, if justified) teams that are competing with each other for sponsors and bleeding members. It is too late to really put Humpty-Dumpty back together again, but something approaching it may yet be your best alternative to go forward. Make your case to whomever the new coach's boss is (it may be a vice principal, principal, head of the athletic department, or someone else depending on how your school is set up), and then be ready to present it again alongside the new head coach's rebuttals. Don't dwell on the nepotism, but focus on the health/viability of the teams. It would probably be best if the nepotism angle was not specifically claimed as a complaint, though you certainly want to present enough evidence for your "judge" to figure it out as a likely motivator.
Select a spokesperson who can keep his/her composure even when presented with the most outrageous counter-claims.