Should my coach be fired for this????

J.R. wrote:

Opposite of J.R. wrote:

The OP did nothing wrong except try to be respectful of an authority figure and showed that he wanted to be part of the team. I am sorry he ended up havings uch a horrible coach and as a result ended up with a serious injury that required surgery.

The coach had nothing to do with the OP getting surgery. That was entirely the decision of the OP.

Also you're relying 100% on the OP's version of the story which, as I pointed out, doesn't make any sense.

In any case, everything the OP has done has been 100% the choice of the OP, not the coach. The OP has free will, and the coach did not force the OP to do anything.

Geesh look at what doctors do to people, invasive and destructive. I bet you don't say anything about that.

Compartment syndrome is an injury that has nothing to do with the coach. I have an athlete who had to take almost a whole year off to have the operation (fasciotomy)and recover to full strength again. It's a condition that affects a surprising number of world-class athletes as well - Mary Decker, Dick Quax, Dave Moorcroft, amongst others all had the operation.

The OP is completely over-reacting to the situation in blaming the coach. The coach could still be an a**hole, but that has nothing to do with his getting CS.

In high school I was warming up before track, came around and all the guys were sitting on the stands at the end of the straight, with the coaches on the track. I kept going around the track doing my warmup as planned.

The next time around one of the assistant coaches (a football guy) yelled at me to get up in the stands. I continued on around the track again. The next time around he yelled at me to get up in the stands or I was off the team! No one else in the stands was saying anything, just watching. I continued on around the track again, came down the straight, everyone was sitting there in total silence, the coaches on the track. I finished at the line, and continued on, walking another lap around the track, then got up in the stands with the rest of them.

A friend told me later they were making bets on how many laps I would run. Nothing else was said about it from the coaches. I ended up being the only one on the team who went to the state meet.

I'm not going to blame you for it, but I hope you learned that you're the one who knows your body and has to deal with the long term effects of your injuries.

Opposite of J.R. wrote:

J.R. you probably gave the worst advice and I disagree with just about everything you said. I do not have the time to write a book like you did, but just read the OP's post again and look at how silly your advice was. The OP did nothing wrong except try to be respectful of an authority figure and showed that he wanted to be part of the team. I am sorry he ended up havings uch a horrible coach and as a result ended up with a serious injury that required surgery. Who knows what would have happened if the coach had just a small level of maturity. How do guys like this get jobs and actually keep them?

Agreed. JR you are a tool. And what do you want for the story about ignoring the football coach? Muppet.

Need Advice wrote:

phamphee wrote:

At some point it has to be your responsibility to look out for your own safety. You are not a kid anymore, 18 is old enough to know when you are hurting yourself.

Your coach was probably wrong, but this would have never happened if you had maintained a slightly better perspective on what was going on. Don't try to blame your coach for that.

Thanks phamphee. I try to grapple with this very reasoning as well but a coach should never be able to exercise his power over an athlete like that. It is pretty much blackmail, just like threatening someone to do something at work or they get fired.

Don't take advice from phamphee. He is a big homophob and has huge problems with logic even do you spell it out for him.

captain and me wrote:[/bquote]

Compartment syndrome is an injury that has nothing to do with the coach. I have an athlete who had to take almost a whole year off to have the operation (fasciotomy)and recover to full strength again. It's a condition that affects a surprising number of world-class athletes as well - Mary Decker, Dick Quax, Dave Moorcroft, amongst others all had the operation.

The OP is completely over-reacting to the situation in blaming the coach. The coach could still be an a**hole, but that has nothing to do with his getting CS.

You are correct that the compartment syndrome injury had nothing to do with the coach. The coach was still in the wrong and the OP did nothing wrong except respect his coaches, which is what he should be doing. There is a reason people are coaches and are put into a position of authority where unfortunately a bad one can threaten to kick a kid off the team for being injured. For anyone not understanding how the coach was completely in the wrong and the OP was acting properly, then I hope you never get in to coaching. I also hope you aren't parents and teach your children to disrespect authority if they don't agree with what the authority figure is saying. It doesn't mean you blindly follow your boss or coach forever and the OP finally realized his coach was an idiot and he did something about it. He also had a right to be afraid of getting kicked off the team. Not everyone is as bold as J.R. and continue to run around the track after being told by an assistant that he will be kicked off the team if he keeps running.

I dodn't know if the coach should be fired but whoever he reports to should know about this and things like this.