[holymoly]

All humor aside, there's more on the sick S.O.B. here:
MSNBC: Coach reprimanded for licking players’ cuts

[konaice]

A Science Teacher?

Maybe they meant Scientology...

[cake_crumb]

While it might have been stupid, since he could have caught something from the kid, it's not all that unusual as far as human behavior. We lick our OWN wounds when cut. Why do you suppose we do that?

[yankeedame]

All he needs to do to beat this is announce: "I'm a Native American and these are the ways of my people."

[ElCapusto]

The players had better exercise extreme care with this coach. He may want to lick them in unappropriate places.

[EveningStar]

...he bent down and licked a cut on a track athlete's knee...

Perhaps it was merely his twisted way of commemorating a tragic event in American History. ;)

[EveningStar]

ping

[dila813]

This state has a bunch of sickos

[Frapster]

Licking a wound seems instinctive to man and beast and for good reason. It is well known that saliva contains the antimicrobial substances thiocyanate and lysozyme. Lysozyme is a mucopolysaccharidase that dissolves the cell walls of gram negative bacteria.

Nigel Benjamin at the St. Bartholomew's and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry has demonstrated that saliva also contains significant levels of nitrite which can be converted to nitric oxide, a powerful antimicrobial agent. Benjamin enlisted the aid of 14 healthy subjects asking them to lick "all over" their hands and then he measured the synthesis of nitric oxide on their skin. Nitric oxide levels increased sharply suggesting that "nitric oxide derived from salivary nitrite applied to the skin contributes to the antimicrobial effects of wound licking." The enzymes necessary to convert salivary nitrite to nitric oxide may be in the saliva as well.

A quick google found this... lol

[Lockbar]

There is obviously some weird PSYCO-sexual aspect to this coach's behavior that is not being explored.

[ExpatGator]

Whatta Homo! Or should that be: Whatta Hemo?

[Mark was here]

I heard that a dog will clean a wound by licking it, that there were things in the saliva that would sterilize the wound and promote healing.

I know people are different than dogs, but this sure seems like a pretty neat deal for the dog. I wonder if humans at one time had a similar ability, or if other animals share this trait.

[kimosabe31]

Is he some kind of queer??