Unpopular Position

**Stan White** · 10-10-2007, 11:22 PM

As an "old" coach who no longer can coach, I have admiration for a local coach who just got suspended from coaching by his school district for the remainder of the season.

Last Friday night, they played a team that ran the score up on them something awful, like 65-10 I believe.

After the game, this coach went to the opposing coach and lit him up verbally, using words probably akin to what I hear every day in the prison.

I had a talk with my brother about this - also a former coach - and we conclude that the coach who got suspended was sticking up for his players. Of course, that does not play well in this politically correct, touchy feely fragile ego society we now live in. On the other hand, if a coach just rolls over and says "oh well," what will his players think of him?

Yes, there is virtue in "turning the other cheek." But when some arrogant asss humiliates kids (and that's exactly what running a score up on another team is), what kind of message does THAT send to kids, to his players and to the kids he did it to?

I've gone clear across a basketball court and got into a referee's face because my players were not only getting killed on the score board, the other team was playing like goons and my kids were getting hurt. The ref stood there and took it because he knew I was right. After the game, we shook hands and that was that.

I did it in my last coaching gig coaching girls basketball, and again, no technical foul.

If a coach doesn't defend their players, who will?

I know this isn't a popular philosophy, and is a throw back way of thinking before sissified political correctness took hold, but I believe I'm right. After all, many fans in the stands act the same way and nothing is said.

**Tom (Houston)** · 10-11-2007, 02:07 PM

What I see more and more often is when a kid makes some mistake and the coach runs on the field and humiliates him in front of friends, team and family.
I'm about ready to see a walk off or the monster player pick him up and teach him a wrestleing move - the body slamb.

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**Stan White** · 10-11-2007, 08:15 PM

I feel that Tom. The game isn't THAT important and some coaches really make assses out of themselves. On the other hand, like my origional post says, coaches SHOULD back their players when wronged.

**JohnBoy** · 10-13-2007, 12:02 AM

this coach went to the opposing coach and lit him up verbally, using words probably akin to what I hear every day in the prison.

Maybe it is not what he said, but how he said it. I think the issue here might be the role model thing. If things don't go your way, it probably still doesn't warrant a great deal of uncivilized behavior (although I do believe he should have said something to the other coach, don't get me wrong- that should not have allowed to pass quietly.) In other words, he probably could have done the same thing without setting a bad example, which was already being done by the opposing coach.

**Stan White** · 10-13-2007, 12:12 AM

See, that I don't know (if the players heard it). I agree with your position. Football is emotional and intense.

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