Posted on 08/25/2023 5:10:44 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A Georgia college’s white baseball manager is under fire after allegedly telling a black player he couldn’t play on the team because his hair was too long and didn’t conform to the rules set by the coach.
Valdosta State University’s head baseball coach Greg Guilliams was secretly recorded by former player Asher Akridge during a meeting in the coach’s office, where Akridge questioned Guilliams’ reasoning for kicking him off the team based on his hair length.
In a video posted to TikTok by Akridge with the caption “Valdosta State University 2023 or 1945,” a player tells the coach he was always respectful and always complied with the strict hair policy.
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The Yankees used to ban players from wearing beards.
And another coach will get fired for trying to set rules.
I hate the phone entrapment of this coach
As I tell my clients outraged because the ex recorded them cussing the other parent out at the child exchange: You have to expect to be videotaped/recorded these days. Period.
Wow things have changed.
I remember when Bob Knight was in his prime. He used to punish his players mercilessly for real or perceived mistakes. Used to tell them what to do about nearly everything. Even what they could eat the night before games.
He was the boss and his players knew it.
His temper became an issue and led to his ruin but this current situation is equally too far the other way. Coaches now can’t even tell their players to cut hair that might interfere with vision? Amazing.
NY Post carrying on the racist argument here...What difference did it make if the coach was white and the player black????
THIS WAS ABOUT HAIR LENGTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He can do and get away with anything he wants whenever he wants. Filling a shopping cart from the Valdosta Food Mart without paying. Going 90 in a 30. Getting all A’s without attending class. Sky’s the limit.
Marxism's victims used to be oppressed workers. But since workers in America have it too darned good to feel oppressed, the Marxists needed a new victim class.
They took one look at Al Sharpton's business model and it was love at first sight.
And you're a racist if you don't like it.;-)
Bob Knight was an abusive POS.
John Wooden won 10 NCAA Titles, abused no one, and threw zero chairs.
Red Auerbach, Phil Jackson, etc…
GM Bob Howsam had a rule for the Cincinnati Reds – that they would be a clean-cut bunch, with no facial hair, no long hair and suit jackets for traveling from city to city. Sparky Anderson was the enforcer for those rules, and a true believer in them. Self-discipline, Sparky believed, led to better teamwork. Hall of Fame manager.
IMO it’s not unusual for coaches to have requirements on hair length, dress code etc. We’ve had them tell our son to get a haircut. Their team, their rules. It doesn’t say how many times kid was asked to get a haircut before this or if he got it cut after being taken off team?
Now you are racists if you do like it. Every thing and anything is racists. Going to the toilet is racists. Eating a meal is racists. Going to sleep is racists. And the beat goes on. The best is yet to come. Thar was said in not a good way.
Is hair length a protected class? I personally won’t hire anybody with excessive tattoos giving the choice. Nor a smoker. Your choices in life has consequences, and at the end of the day your employer needs to make a decision about what is and is not appropriate. End of story.
He may have ended up that way, but he wasn’t always like that.
Personally I started being troubled more when he started doing things to players like Neil Reed…who by the way once lived about 10 miles from my house. Neil’s dad was head HS coach who rumor had it abused his son Neil Reed. I worked with a guy that was his teammate and he as punishment when Neil had a bad practice he would make Neil walk home even on cold, dark December and Jan nights. Then Neil went to IU and was abused by Knight, sad.
Bobby ran a squeaky clean program, when he was surrounded by crooked programs like U of Kentucky and later Louisville. UK was so crooked they dropped bundles of cash on the floor being given to players which is how they got caught once..”Corrupt Arena” was more accurate than people know. Knight also helped his players graduate at high rates and was supportive in other ways.
But yes like I said his anger dominated his personality as he aged.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm3YFFjj5y8
Thanks for the backstory.
Just for clarity, I’m not against this team having appearance standards.
I think the Yankees do?…
Anyhow, I’ve been out of the military for 19 years and I still am in appearance standard.
Old habits…
A little bit like those people who come into my court and complain that they got a speeding ticket because “this place is just a speed trap“. It’s only a trap if you’re speeding. And don’t give me that crap about it just being a money maker for the city. No Municipal Court judge I know would bow to a city manager tell him or her that the Municipal Court needed to make more money. The suggestion is illegal in Texas.
Go back and notice the difference in Randy Johnson’s appearance between his days on the Yankees and his days on the Mariners and Diamondbacks.
From what I got from the article: He was told multiple times to cut his hair and did not, so the coach canned him from the team. Then he goes and gets his hair cut, but the coach doesn’t want him back because he did not obey the rule in the first place.
You have to expect to be videotaped/recorded these days. Period.
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This fact should not be an obstacle for a college coach. They have an obligation and a right to set hair length requirements for players. Hair length is NOT a birthright. It is a choice.
Like it or don’t the public assumes that a person’s outside appearance reflects their inside character, and to a major extent they are absolutely correct. Change the outside and the inside will follow.
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