Here's something you might be interested in.
In Kentucky, a high school football coach is being tried for reckless homicide for the death of a player. The kid collapsed during a practice and died last year in August, when temperatures were in the mid-90s.
This is the first time a coach has ever been charged, even though it happens a few times a year (most recently in San Antonio, with a 13-year-old boy in 100 degree heat).
This player was 15, and the coach is facing 10 years in jail...all for making the kids do wind sprints. And some reports say he denied them water.
I've often said football coaches are way too extreme. They have two-a-day practices and gassers, where the players are running sprints with all their gear on.
In basketball, we got to practice in an air-conditioned gym.
I remember my stepbrother after football practice, going home and throwing up the green Kool-Aid he drank (I'm guessing it felt like that Kool-Aid character that jumped thru the walls in commercials...jumping out of his stomach).
But on to lighter news involving coaches --
Over in New Mexico, a coach that I'm sure the players are now calling "Stan the Man", hired strippers for his baseball players. This was during an away game, and the kids were in a hotel.
The strippers even gave some of the kids massages.
You know that teenagers are too young for strippers when the coach tells them to wear protection, and they put on their knee pads, batting helmets, and catchers masks (okay, I made that paragraph up).
The coach was offered the chance to resign. He didn't. So he was fired, and the idiot is now fighting that.
He has been a math teacher and baseball coach for 23 years (and was only a few years away from his pension).
I love the fact that the coach brought up the names of people like Kobe Bryant and Rick Pitino being involved in scandal. The only problem with that logic is...he's teaching and coaching children. Those are adults, that were involved in situations with other adults.
I think he would've been better off trying to argue that the strippers were hired to massage their sore muscles.
I wonder if the math students, or members of some calculus club at the school, are saying "Come on! What are we, chopped liver?"
I've often thought about contacting some of my old teachers at Mira Mesa High. But never more so then after hearing this story. I'd say to Coach Blevins and Coach Cunningham "You guys were great coaches. You taught me a lot about basketball and about life. But geez...instead of all the suicides we had to run in practice, couldn't we have had one day of watching some pole dancers?"
In Kentucky, a high school football coach is being tried for reckless homicide for the death of a player. The kid collapsed during a practice and died last year in August, when temperatures were in the mid-90s.
This is the first time a coach has ever been charged, even though it happens a few times a year (most recently in San Antonio, with a 13-year-old boy in 100 degree heat).
This player was 15, and the coach is facing 10 years in jail...all for making the kids do wind sprints. And some reports say he denied them water.
I've often said football coaches are way too extreme. They have two-a-day practices and gassers, where the players are running sprints with all their gear on.
In basketball, we got to practice in an air-conditioned gym.
I remember my stepbrother after football practice, going home and throwing up the green Kool-Aid he drank (I'm guessing it felt like that Kool-Aid character that jumped thru the walls in commercials...jumping out of his stomach).
But on to lighter news involving coaches --
Over in New Mexico, a coach that I'm sure the players are now calling "Stan the Man", hired strippers for his baseball players. This was during an away game, and the kids were in a hotel.
The strippers even gave some of the kids massages.
You know that teenagers are too young for strippers when the coach tells them to wear protection, and they put on their knee pads, batting helmets, and catchers masks (okay, I made that paragraph up).
The coach was offered the chance to resign. He didn't. So he was fired, and the idiot is now fighting that.
He has been a math teacher and baseball coach for 23 years (and was only a few years away from his pension).
I love the fact that the coach brought up the names of people like Kobe Bryant and Rick Pitino being involved in scandal. The only problem with that logic is...he's teaching and coaching children. Those are adults, that were involved in situations with other adults.
I think he would've been better off trying to argue that the strippers were hired to massage their sore muscles.
I wonder if the math students, or members of some calculus club at the school, are saying "Come on! What are we, chopped liver?"
I've often thought about contacting some of my old teachers at Mira Mesa High. But never more so then after hearing this story. I'd say to Coach Blevins and Coach Cunningham "You guys were great coaches. You taught me a lot about basketball and about life. But geez...instead of all the suicides we had to run in practice, couldn't we have had one day of watching some pole dancers?"