“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.
Well said. Right on the money.
I support the young man's intention of taking a principled stand. But either he didn't think it through, or he is now seen to be a whiner (or perhaps his family's lawyer is).
>>> 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.
So what RULE did he break? All I see in the story is the coach “ridiculed” the color pink in a prior game.
There obviously was no hard and fast “rule” about color of shoes. Coach was just being an ass. From the story, “He’s had five or six different colored shoes throughout his last two years of kicking for Mendenhall and when he got the pink shoes that’s when it became an issue. I think it is the pink shoes.”
When some mouth breather mouths off, does that now constitute an enforceable “rule” ? If the report the student has already been reinstated so quickly is correct, the school sees this too.
That makes the difference between an coach and a nincompoop.