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| Stater of the Obvious |
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Sometimes it doesn't pay to be truthful. Look what happens: coach makes fun of a crybaby and the baby starts crying. |
| 96Owl |
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That's an awefully shitty thing to by a coach. He should be fired. I would certainly pull my son off of any team that guy coached. |
| Old Man By the Sea |
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The ass should be fired |
| JT |
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I thought all middle school boys were inherent crybabies? I agree that was a pretty low blow from the coach. I mean the kid was just asking to get in the game. It's not like he was asking to skip practices like some of our pro hoops players. |
| morceli1978 |
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Kind of funny that this took place in a town called Pleasantville. Pretty immature of the coach. If the coach was so annoyed with the kid, then why did he keep him on the team? And if something needed to be addressed, he should have done it directly with the parents and the kid. Odds are the kid is a whiny bitch, but that still isn't the best course of action. |
| twittering debutante |
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Middle school kids can be a pain in the ass sometimres. I'd like to see all the school districts give out Crybaby of the Year awards, so a winner could move onto state and eventually to nationals. Imagine a National CryBaby of the Year type of competition, similar to Footlocker or Adidas cross-country and track meets. |
| Jersey girls are great |
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Its not shocking it happened in Jersey |
| Dennis Rodman |
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Basketball is for crybabies and sissies anyway..so is baseball. |
| dean moriarty |
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I don't know if that is necessarily true. The coach said that "all he did was whine". There could be a lot more to the story. Obviously, whoever wrote this story is on the kid's side... I mean, what difference does it make if the kid is an honor student? It's hilarious that the kid that won the "Crybaby Award" responded by letting his coach get in trouble. If someone called me a crybaby, I wouldn't CRY about it, I would prove them wrong! |
| dude man |
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If I was the kids father I'd kick the coaches ass in private. Then I'd tell my kid not to be a crybaby anymore. |
| chee |
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| Flagpole Willy |
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Agreed. No one deserves that, least of all a 13-year-old kid. What a punk-ass bitch that guy is. |
| yep |
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come on everyone.... this is just plain hilarious! The parents clearly foster the crybaby mentality. "Ohhh, him's sooo upset, him's can't even go to school, we should let him stay home." My dad woulda laughed his "reer" off and told me to suck it up. Let's put things into perspective here... funny, funny, funny. |
| Frank Booth |
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I bet it went down this way: kid is a bench-warmer and a goofball. His father is one of those overweening parents living through some fantasy of his kid as a great athlete. All season long, the father says, "why aren't you playing." Kid says, "Dad, it's the coach's decision." Father says, "well you tell him you want to play next practice." All season long. It becomes an inside joke between bench-warmer, coach, and the rest of the team. Then comes the team banquet. The bench-warmer knows as well as everyone that he's going to get the cry-baby award. Only because kids are kids and don't think through things all the way, it's only at the banquet, when the bench-warmer gets up to get the award, that he realizes how pissed his father is about this. (Steam coming out of ears.) And he goes into CYA mode. "I didn't know. I'm so surprised. I'm so crushed." And he opts to play the victim and stay home to solidify his case while his father calls for blood. The key to the story is the quotation, "some kind of punishment." This sounds like an administrator who knows the whole story and wants to figure out the way to placate a problematic parent while also suggesting appropriately to a long-time colleague who (let's face it is getting paid pennies per hour to give of himself to coach kids after school in what is mostly a selfless act of caring...if you know anything about public education in this country...you'll agree) stepped over the line this one time. You all sound like George Bush. "Fire him." Yeah, great. And who will teach his math class tomorrow? And who will spend 10 hours plus a week giving your kid some attention after school while are still at work? Would you rather your son hang out on the corner, waiting for something to do? If you don't have the facts, don't be so quick to judge. Frank. |
| Portland Runner |
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I want more details before I pass judgement on the coach. Have any of you ever watched "Made" on MTV? In a nutshell, teenager writes the show and wants to be a jock or cheerleader and is assigned a coach to help them meet the goal. For the first fifteen minutes, you are proud of the kid for wanting to improve. Then, the next 40, you want to slap the bejeezus out of the little whiners as they start crying over the indignity of physical work. Eventually, most of them suck it up and do alright. Perhaps this rising star of the hardcourt is cut from the same cloth? If anything, perhaps he's learned a rich life lesson. At some point in life, it becomes "unfair" and not everyone is a winner. |
| not me |
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I would hate to be that coach in 20 years....this kid will have a breakdown sometime in the future..and he will attribute his failures in life to this one moment.....he will seek revenge on the coach..... We will be watching the news one day...man kills former coach over cry baby award 20 years ago! HAAAAA, who's the cry baby now COACH! |
| dean moriarty |
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Frank Booth and Portland Runner, It's funny to see how quickly people condemn the coach in this situation. It's so obvious that the writer is in the kid's corner. Plus, the article is just a few short paragraphs. The whole story isn't in there. Whether or not the coach was a jerk (maybe he is), the kid should learn from this experience. So the kid is 13 years old and he got called a crybaby in front of his team. Sure, that was probably embarrassing, but everyone gets knocked on their butt every once and a while. It's embarrassing when you poop your pants in first grade. It's embarrassing when trip going up the stairs to accept your "attendence award" at a school assembly. It's embarrassing when you forget your lines at a school play. It's embarrassing when you bomb a project presentation in front of a class of your buddies and the girl you have a crush on. So what? You get over it. Part of growing up is getting embarrassed! That's life. This kid is accused of being a crybaby, so he goes on a mission to PROVE that he IS a crybaby. People are so quick to shift the blame. This could be the kick in the butt the kid needed to stop being a whiner and be more self-reliant, but instead he easily runs home to mommy for help. The irony of this article is just hilarious. |
| the definitive |
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Guess who's crying now............. the coach.....WAH! |
| Portland Runner |
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Not Me, I fear that an entire generation brought up without discipline and spoon fed a doctrine of "your so very special!" and "everyone is a winner!" throughout their formative years will create a wave of violence in the near future. Imagine spending the first two decades of your life doing no wrong and being coddled at every turn. Then, your boss denies you a raise or rates your work as sub par. Or, your girlfriend breaks up with you because you don't satisfy her. Maybe the bank says you're not eligible for a loan to buy your dream car. How will that person react? How many first time rejections will result in homicides, suicides, nervous breakdowns, and spousal abuse because millions of young Americans don't know what losing is or how to gracefully deal with disappointment? Hell, we're already seeing more kids that feel that shooting up their school seems like a good response to any number of minor embarrassments. In your scenario, the coach may shoulder some small responsibility but the shooter who is incapable of dealing with life is clearly to blame. As are those who did him the disservice of not hardening him to the realities of life. |
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