1 posted on
11/11/2010 12:47:22 PM PST by
jerry557
To: jerry557
“I do understand and we don’t condone being disrespectful to the coaches,” Joey Sheppard, Coy’s father, told WLBT.com. “But he was standing up for what he thought was right. ...
Then he should get to learn the lesson that, when you break the rules in order to make a principled stand on something you believe in, you should expect to have to face the consequences of the rules you broke. That makes the difference between an activist and a nincompoop.
2 posted on
11/11/2010 12:51:35 PM PST by
Boogieman
To: jerry557
Now the senior, who relied on academic credit from playing football to help fulfill graduation requirements, might not receive his diploma on time
WHOZAWAZA HUH? You can DO that now? And he relied on that credit to graduate? Sorry, that sentence really sidetracked me off of the main point.
To: jerry557
Sounds like the coach is a jerk.
8 posted on
11/11/2010 12:59:44 PM PST by
earlJam
To: jerry557
12 posted on
11/11/2010 1:10:34 PM PST by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: jerry557
"He was standing up for what he thought was right." Very good. However,...
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14 posted on
11/11/2010 1:14:29 PM PST by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: jerry557
To hades with the rules! If you want to wear pink cleats, or pink hair, a pink football tutu, or you repaint the goal line pink . . . as long as it makes you feeeeel good.
Arrrrgh ... trying to understand liberal thinking makes my brain hurt.
18 posted on
11/11/2010 1:29:35 PM PST by
DesertSapper
(God, Family, Country . . . . . . . . . . and dead terrorists!!!)
To: jerry557
I worked for IBM many years ago and had to wear a white shirt, and dark, matching slacks and coat. That was the rules. I could not make up my own as I went along.
19 posted on
11/11/2010 1:30:12 PM PST by
devane617
(NEVER feed your cats canned Tuna fish. Mercury poisoning.)
To: jerry557
He’s been reinstated. You can read “the rest of the story” at the Sun Herald (Biloxi/Gulfport).
20 posted on
11/11/2010 1:36:49 PM PST by
SlidingW
(October 9, 2009 - I Was Here!)
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