Butch Jones?
Posted on 10/07/2016 9:50:37 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
Anyone who has spent any time on the gridiron — even at a young age — likely knows the typical punishments a coach will dole out if his rules aren’t followed.
There are “suicides,” a grueling running exercise in which participants have to run to the 20-yard line, touch it, then run back to the end zone (then the 30, then the 40, etc.).
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I've been a youth football coach for 20 years. This article is spot on and to Suicides and Laps, I'd add Up Downs and Snaking the Field.
WTF is wrong with these people? The Coach is 100% correct and set a proper example. It's TEAM first. Always. For every player. It's not a democracy, it's an absolute dictatorship with me at the helm. My players answer questions in only 2 ways: Yes Sir or No Sir. My teams have won 2 Championships. My players and parents REPEATEDLY ask to be on my team. They have never once complained about the way I enforce team related discipline.
This is such a gross distortion of all that is good with team sports. I suspect the people that made this decision have never once volunteered their time to coach children.
Parents are paying for this when they have their kids play youth sports. Its part of what they are paying for.
Butch Jones?
I thought it takes a village.
In the modern narrative bullying is wrong only if the victim is a sexual deviant. Otherwise the victim of bullying is to ALWAYS be considered an immediate threat to everyone else and that’s much more important than whatever the bully did.
Our son’s championship team - it was “grab a brick.” Same thing.
Well said.
Football is under attack.
Good grief! Coach made us run laps for ANYTHING! If he thought you were looking at him funny you ran laps. Same thing with the gym teacher. Running laps is acceptable, normal and EFFECTIVE discipline. We are losing our minds in this country...
One of my friends had nine kids.
Whenever they misbehaved she would have them run around the house,outside,for a fixed amount of time.
It was pretty funny.
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Some people get nervous about seeing any discipline ever for anybody, regardless of cause. These are the same people saying ‘we need to support those who are bullied, let them know we have their back!”. This is what ‘having their back’ looks like. And no, the culprit is not going to be happy while receiving their due punishment. It’s not supposed to make them ‘happy’. It’s supposed to make them think and gain better control of how they act.
I 100% agree. Make the offender sweat and think. This was a classic, time tested, proven character building exercise.
We called them ladders. Next time just suspend bully from the team for the season. Parents all say, “Not my little Johnnie!”
As a former youth coach in various sports I wouldn’t coach these special snowflakes today for love nor money.
9! Was there always a kid doing laps? ha!
Always someone running,yes.:-)
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These folks who complain should have gone to Catholic school.
We had to run the bleachers. Up one aisle, down the next, four aisles. Usually ten times. We also played twice for the CIF title, but lost, both times. :(
The only thing, the ONLY thing... I may have done differently is make the ENTIRE TEAM run laps. That way, the kids get pissed off at the offender and the “TEAM” brings him in line. I never liked to single kids out for discipline unless I thought it was severe. Someone jumps offside, blows the snap count, everyone does push ups, runs, up downs....
The team is more important than any player.
Laps are nothing. If we did anything wrong coach added to the number of wind sprints. They were a killer.
Coming to a drill Sergeant near you.
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