High School Football: Pfft... Kids Today...

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The story: a high school football team has turned in a consistently piss-poor performance. The coach is ticked. In the locker room, he lets them know...

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQk1K7Qc-Sg"]Football Coach Goes Insane- Uncensored - YouTube[/ame]


Kids record the coach's routine, and upload it to Youtube. Parents go ballistic, and the coach resigns.

Before making a decision regarding whether the coach's antics were acceptable, I encourage you to read this:

Rehire the coach who cursed at his players - CNN.com

I didn't play football in high school, but I was in another sport for many years. The coach's "dressing down" of his players does not seem over the top to me. But given many parents' failure to teach their kids about life, their reaction is hardly surprising.


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Side note: the coach also teaches A.P. precalculus, so he likely has a few neurons firing.
 


MSTeacher said:
+rep coach. rehire
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I chucked when the coach mentioned that. It was well put. :)

For anyone else reading, two notes:

First, the last link in the OP (regarding parenting failures) was meant to go here (sorry for the goof):

How to Land Your Kid in Therapy - Magazine - The Atlantic


Second, here is a compelling story about coaches (this time, baseball) and the life lessons they can teach kids...

Coach Fitz and #146 - s Management Theory - NYTimes.com

It was written by Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side) for the New York Times Magazine years ago. It's a good tale. I think a few of you will enjoy it.
 
Yuckystuff said:
Soccer moms everywhere rejoice as the pussification of the American male continues...
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Yeah, it will probably be on The View next week. They'll talk about how they need to protect their children, blah blah.

These schools need to learn how to tell the parents to go fuck themselves. What would be so bad about trying that for a change? The city pays the teacher's salaries, not the parents. What are they so scared of?
 
When you say "parents" the man in the relationship is hardly anything worthy of the word man.

Beta Male or pussy ass guy is a better way to call him

Fathers have failed with high tolerance when raising there kids let's face it.

Men need to man the fuck up and not put up with shit that is your birth right as a man.

it's no wonder we have so many more gays in this country because fathers allow their wives to drees thier kids up in girls clothes or don't know engough about hunting women to teach there sons how to be a man that their sons grow up confused.

but in this example fathers need to kick there sons asses and teach them work eithic and respect.

my two cents.
 
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"I'm sorry to yell but apparently you don't understand me when I talk to you like a human." says the coach.

Any man who ever raised a boy and gave a fuck about how his life turned out has been through this many times. This man should be applauded for doing what the parents of these whiny ass kids wouldn't do, tell em like it is and put them in their place.
 
This is exactly what kids need these days. My generation (i'm 27) is a bunch of entitled, woe-is-me shitbricks. Someone puts you in your place, you cry like a bitch, and someone gets fired. Guy did nothing wrong.

I applaud this coach. Sounds like the kid was being a selfish twat.
 
I thought that was a pretty good speech. It sounds like the kids were dicking around and wasting his time. If he did that to my kid (assuming they deserved it), I'd congratulate him.

We had a teacher who shouted like that when I was 11. It scared the shit out of us initially, but if you got yelled at, it's because you had done something to deserve it. He was an awesome teacher, and once we'd got to know him we all really, really liked and respected him.
 
amateursurgeon said:
We had a teacher who shouted like that when I was 11. It scared the shit out of us initially, but if you got yelled at, it's because you had done something to deserve it. He was an awesome teacher, and once we'd got to know him we all really, really liked and respected him.
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My father once gave me a similar speech, and he was always a quiet person (got his point across without raising his voice or fist). I was in high school. I had been acting like a douchebag for a long time. He came in my room, quietly shut the door, turned to me, and let me have it.

It changed my life (I'll spare you the details). Decades later, I still remember that incident. I'll never forget it. And now I'm all kinds of awesome. lol


I'm gonna pimp that Michael Lewis piece again. It's that good... :)

Coach Fitz and #146 - s Management Theory - NYTimes.com

An excerpt about Lewis's high-school baseball coach:

There was always a question about whether Fitz controlled his temper, or his temper controlled him, or even if it mattered. In any case, the summer of 1976 was especially uncomfortable. Fitz had entered us in a new league, with the bigger, Catholic schools. Defeat followed listless defeat until one night we lost by some truly spectacular score. Twice at the end of the game Fitz shouted at our baserunners to slide, and perhaps not seeing the point when down by 15-2 in getting scraped or even dirty, they went in standing up. Afterward, at 11 o'clock or so, we piled off the bus and into the gym. Before we could undress, Fitz said, ''We're going out back.'' Out back of the gym was a surprisingly low-budget version of a playing field. The dirt was packed as hard as asphalt and speckled with shell shards, glass, bottle caps and God knows what else. Fitz lined us up behind first base and explained we were going to practice running to third. When we got there, we were to slide headfirst into the base. This, he said, would teach us to get down when he said to get down. Then he vanished into the darkness. A few moments later we heard his voice, from the general vicinity of third base. One by one, our players took off. In the beginning, there was some grumbling, but before long the only sound was of Fitz spotting a boy coming at him out of the darkness, shouting, ''Hit it!''

Over and again we circled the bases, finishing with a headfirst slide onto, in effect, concrete. We ran and slid on that evil field until we bled and gasped for breath. The boy in front of me, a sophomore new to Fitz, began to cry. Finally, Fitz decided we'd had enough and ordered us inside. Back in the light we marveled at the evening's most visible consequence: ripped, muddy and bloody uniforms. We undressed and began to throw them into the laundry baskets - until Fitz stopped us. ''We're not washing them,'' he said. ''Not until we win.''
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JakeStratham said:
My father once gave me a similar speech, and he was always a quiet person (got his point across without raising his voice or fist). I was in high school. I had been acting like a douchebag for a long time. He came in my room, quietly shut the door, turned to me, and let me have it.

It changed my life (I'll spare you the details). Decades later, I still remember that incident. I'll never forget it. And now I'm all kinds of awesome. lol
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The occasional letting you have it as a last resort to counter you "acting like a douchebag" is different than if he constantly berated you for giving a piss-poor performance in a game of Monopoly, for not winning the spelling bee, for not picking up on how to tie your shoes fast enough, etc.

The former likely helped you grow up to be awesome, while the latter likely makes people more prone to have anger issues and to end up in prison.

Allegedly, the coach had frequent outbursts and even got after a player for attending a funeral instead of practice. If true, those things probably made the players lose respect fast, which would make them more likely to try to record him and such.

I do agree with some of the sentiment in here though. At the last places I worked in the real world, the younger the workers were, the more likely they were to think that their supervisors were being mean to them.
 
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