Posted on 02/02/2007 10:23:19 AM PST by One Proud Son
LEEDS, Maine (AP) - A high school basketball coach was fired after telling his players at halftime to reach into their pants to "check their manhood," administrators said.
Leavitt Area High School Principal Patrick Hartnett said coach Mike Remillard told the varsity boys Jan. 23 that "tonight's game was about who had the biggest (male genitalia) in town." "He then required his players to all stand up and put their hands down their pants and check their manhood," Hartnett said in the statement, which was read to school board members Thursday by Superintendent Thomas J. Hanson a day after the coach was dismissed.
All but one player followed the coach's instructions, Hartnett said. The team won the game.
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This guy plays football?
'basketball'
He was fired for that? I think he should sue. I've seen totally worthless employees sue, why shouldn't he?
I'm not sure how this demonstrates that he "cares about the development of young boys into men," but I can't see how this was a traumatic event either.
I imagine a lot of those self-check anyway.
The Celtics need to hire this guy.
Did they wash their hands before dribbling?
A goth eunuch if ever I saw one.
And you would want them to be "so female"?
;-)
" It's just a glorified game of fetch."
Last one picked? Need a hug?
Everything I really needed to know to get along in this world, I learned playing sports. I learned hard work really does pay dividends, how to deal with setbacks, how to deal with success, how to empathize with others, and how to work as a member of a team. I also learned that it is a hell of a lot more fun to be a winner.
This could have been a problem had he been coaching a girls team. As it stands there is nothing unusual about such a statement.
Someone should have told the coach to check his brain.
This guy gets fired while queers/homopeds/and the genitally mutilated enter schools to market sexual deviance to the kids.
That guy has got one hell of an ass kicking in his future
Clearly this monster needs to be sent to a sensitivity camp for reeducation.
I don't know about simply coaching---
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2751614&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines
Don't you know that male behavior, by default, is 'bad'?
If this were a woman coach telling her players to get in touch with their feelings, it would be OK.
And what is wrong with that? Why are the words testify, testimony, testicles used? They are derived from the Latin. And it would seem that the ancient Romans had the same custom, as did the ancients when Abraham directed that his servant place his hand under his thigh, (the expression is a euphemism for testicles) as was the custom then when one swore or took an oath, before going off to find a wife for Isaac. History is a great teacher.
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