Reminds me of story Bill Walton told about John Wooden during the Nixon days. Walton goes to Wooden saying the team is going to boycott the next game to protest Nixon’s crimes in Watergate. Wooden says “It has been nice having you on the team, Bill” They wrote a letter instead.
I remember another story from those days where Walton refused to get a haircut. When Coach Wooden questioned him about it, Walton said it was his right to grow his hair as long as he wanted. Wooden agreed, and said, 'but it's my right to choose who plays on the team, and it's been nice having you, Bill."
Walton went on to say that he ran out of practice, still in his warmups, to the nearest barbershop.
Yep. Character suggests that he should have said ‘either you juvenile footballers play or you are off the team.....scholarship is gone.....nice knowing you’.