Here’s the situation
I run for an NAIA team. I enjoy the people and the school there. The runners on the team I don’t have a problem with. The coach is the one who not only I, but a lot of other runners have a problem with.
Here’s the problems that surrounds my coach:
-He enacted a curfew on everyone on the team (be in your room at 12:00 midnight), this even goes for the weekends. Not only that, but he enacted bed-checks also.
-6 A.M. for everyone if someone on the team screws up (example: accidentally late for practice, breaks curfews,
-He says some inappropriate things (example: in a joking way, when I and a few of my teammates ran at nationals he said how he hasn’t been with his wife for a few days and was thinking of “spooning” one of our athletes and when he talks about life lessons, he always brings something up about having sex with his wife)
-Calls some runners out during our team meetings (example: saying how one person on the team screwed up or how one person didn’t do his job right or how he reads off our progress reports in front of everyone)
-before practice, he talks for almost an hour before we can actually start running
-he wants us to tell him our problems or any issues we have with him, but makes sure that he’s the one who’s right and you’re the one wrong
-blames us how he doesn’t see his family that much and how he doesn’t get paid enough and how no one gives him respect (funny how he complains about not seeing his family when he schedules meets over spring break where he should spend time with them)
-he’s said that he’s sorry when we run bad and says he’s made mistakes before when dealing with training
The list of issues can go on and on. Now I love the school and the people there and I would love to continue to go there, but its hard dealing with how strict my coach is and how much of a dictator he is and if I wanted to quite, I would have to pay over $20,000 per year. There’s already been over 5 runners who have quite and over 5 more that plan on quitting and transferring after this track season. Our Athletic Director hasn’t been too happy with him and even our coach has complained about him.
What should I do? I’ve sat down and talked to my coach, but it hasn’t helped at all.