bpiercehawks
Well-Known Member
Holy cow. I never met Chris Street but still think of him like a brother. He is the epitome of a Hawkeye student-athlete in my opinion. I don't even want to put my thoughts in print regarding this.
The only reason he made him go and tell the varsity players what he said was so that they could hear about it and exert some of their own internal discipline. There was no other reason to do that. And the intent was also to keep him running until the varsity was done practicing so that he would have to be in the locker room at the same time as them. That is obvious.
These things happened when I played. We had to run every time someone left a piece of their equipment out. One kid kept leaving stuff out over and over. So we took matters into our own hands... he left his helmet out one day and we all took turns taking a dump in it. He didn't leave anything out after that. But if our coach would have known about it we all would have been suspended for God knows how long.
If he takes out the curse word, does it make you feel better? Do you think that was the first time he's ever heard the word before, how about said it himself? Have you used the word before? Does it make you a less mature adult? It's football, it's intense; coached and played by intense people. The team is a bonding unit, if one says the things the kid says, they will be called out. This scenario would have been played out the exact same way by the coaches at any school in the country. Confession, running, cursing all included.
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BS. If my kid ran his mouth about his team like that, and was so confident as to put it out on twitter, he can face the consequences. The same would go for him as an adult if he posted something about his company. He would get his *** fired. This is a teachable moment. His parents have taught him that Mommy and Daddy can bail him out when he acts like a little punk. I have a son. He's very young, but I assure you, I will not be raising a kid like these little entitled pukes I see running around.
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This is a teachable moment.
What lesson did the coach teach in this moment? A real coach, if for some reason he felt like he couldn't ignore it, would have made the kid apologize, tell him he's going to bust his butt in conditioning while the team practices, and tell them that if they ever say or do anything that is against this team, they will be on the hill with him. After practice, have him come together with the team, tell the team he's learned his lesson, and the matter is closed, he's still a part of this team. If anyone has a problem with it, they take it up with the coaching staff.
It is really sick that you think this is the case.
Or maybe, you've been living in a bubble. Name one school, where the corrective action wouldn't have been: confront team/apologize, extra conditioning, and being irrate that cursing was included.
Or maybe, you've been living in a bubble. Name one school, where the corrective action wouldn't have been: confront team/apologize, extra conditioning, and being irrate that cursing was included.
The devil's in the details. For instance, the scenario I proposed was pretty much the same thing you said. However, this Lincoln coach's goal was clearly to humiliate the kid and anger the team. For instance, all witnesses testified that the coach made him stand in front of the team for 30-60 seconds while they shouted insults at him until he put a stop to it. That's not apologizing or extra conditioning, that is absolute garbage.
If I were coaching that team, I would have had the kid apologize and run hills, and if one player popped off about it, his *** would have been on that hill with him. What kind of sick coach feels that the best thing for the team is to turn the team against a player?
Trust me if it this was your kid who did this you wouldn't be talking this way. No way!!
Good point Ghost. I know that no coach ever made my entire team run extra laps/drills for something that I did, or one of my teammates did to screw up in practice. And they sure as hell never let the team know why, and who's fault it was for running the extra laps/drills.
Never happens.
Ever.
Never.
Happens.
Actually if my kid did that he would have more to worry about at home than the coach.
I have no problem with making the kid read the tweet in front of the team. He should be embassed like that.
I have no problem with the exra conditioning, provided he had adequate water.
I have a huge problem with the coach encouraging ,directly or indirectly, any threats of violence against the kid. That is clearly not appropriate and the coach should have been immediately terminated if that happened.
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BS. If my kid ran his mouth about his team like that, and was so confident as to put it out on twitter, he can face the consequences. The same would go for him as an adult if he posted something about his company. He would get his *** fired. This is a teachable moment. His parents have taught him that Mommy and Daddy can bail him out when he acts like a little punk. I have a son. He's very young, but I assure you, I will not be raising a kid like these little entitled pukes I see running around.
lol.. Nice try.. So your not a parent yet.. Talk to me when you are..