Posted on 05/02/2003 1:21:36 PM PDT by Charlie OK
The first qualification for a collegiate head coaching job is that you be a grown-up. That's not a requirement everybody in the profession meets this week, certainly not Iowa State basketball coach Larry Eustachy or Alabama football coach Mike Price. Each of them was caught acting like randy frat boys, and both may be summarily fired -- not because they're cheats or losers, but for this novel reason:
Schools don't ask college coaches to do much anymore, they don't even ask them to set curfews or establish dress codes or graduate players, but if somebody mentions there's going to be a Death Punch drinking binge on frat row or an excursion to a topless bar, they probably ought to say, "Better not," instead of, "Hey, that sounds like fun."
It's been a long time since any of us was naive enough to believe that coaches, as a group, are legitimate tutors of ethics in undergraduates. Only a handful of them meet the old expectation of coach-as-teacher and model for manly behavior anymore -- Bob Stoops of Oklahoma comes to mind -- and you can argue over whether many of them ever did.
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Walt
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