But was he really? Think about it he was on the football team. Football coaches are harsh. How many of you remember your football coach? They are tough because they want the players to be tough and win the game. Was he just being tough on the kid or was the kid and his parents just snowflakes who could not take the heat?
I think you didn’t get the joke, but you make a valid point.
Some kids are just pussies, born of pussies.
“Was he just being tough on the kid or was the kid and his parents just snowflakes who could not take the heat?”
The heat, as you call it, and its application is also the job of the coach to determine if it is in excess for the team or any individual player. It’s also his job to determine if the kids can handle the pressure applied in a positive way and not lose it. If a family ideal is not consistent with the school’s and coach’s theories on the psychological part of the game at a high school level, which means absolutely nothing in the long run, then I blame the school, the coaches, and the parents for not making the effort of intervening since there was a history. Everyone failed in this one.
And the coach was asked not to attend, and he did it anyway just to spite them. Then they should have had him arrested as he was asked not to attend, and to leave once there uninvited and refused. The coach is a complete a$$ plus just as ignorant as one. And that’s in addition to his failure as a youth coach
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Even at the kids funeral? He was coaching him to what end at the funeral?
Wow. What compassion. I hope you're not a grief counselor in any capacity.
Or did he make a target of this kid to make some of his A players happy or try to be popular with a certain segment of the team.
I’ve seen it. Those coaches, like this one, don’t last long.
You might be right though .... either way showing up somewhere he wasn’t wanted is just being an ass.