I'm not happy with Bryan Fetzer (UVA) - Team just publicly named 4 athletes they suspended.

I would leave the school if they did that to me or my friends on the team. It's like, "hey let's allow all the judgmental people out there to do their thing and bring down these (possibly good) people for one thing they did wrong because no one should make mistakes or do bad things." UVA is pathetic.

Does your attitude and feeling also apply to football players? Basketball players? Maybe this will deter other "student athletes" from refusing to follow stated rules? Ironically, you're calling out someone on a public forum, while remaining anonymous. Run along and find your safe space.

What rules did they break?

Public hanging wrote:

Does your attitude and feeling also apply to football players? Basketball players? Maybe this will deter other "student athletes" from refusing to follow stated rules? Ironically, you're calling out someone on a public forum, while remaining anonymous. Run along and find your safe space.

Yes, isn't it great to not be publicly humiliated like Fetzer did (or allowed to happen) to those runners? There's another thread on the suspensions, where my comments are near the front regarding other sports. They don't announce every suspension, they just get suspended.

Look up FERPA guidelines. This smells like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

I'm not a Fetzer fan, but I posted this on the other thread.

Maybe, but it's always news in football and basketball when it happens. Should our track athletes be treated differently than the student-athletes from revenue producing sports?

I do understand your point. Twenty or twenty-one year old 'kids' don't need all their transgressions aired in public, but it does happen in those other sports (on SportsCenter and not just on the team website).

Nobody should be treated differently, no matter what sport. The higher profile sports unfortunately get more scrutiny from outside of the schools. The schools themselves should NOT be subjecting any athletes of any kind to such public hangings.

Anyone who tries to publically shame a person is the lowest of trash. Especially if they're an inferior person which they prolly are anyways. This UVA coach has no place handling student athletes.

ACSee wrote:

I'm not a Fetzer fan, but I posted this on the other thread.

Maybe, but it's always news in football and basketball when it happens. Should our track athletes be treated differently than the student-athletes from revenue producing sports?

I do understand your point. Twenty or twenty-one year old 'kids' don't need all their transgressions aired in public, but it does happen in those other sports (on SportsCenter and not just on the team website).

Yeah I responded to it. Goodnight.

Maybe the SID put that release out

engadget sucks wrote:

Nobody should be treated differently, no matter what sport. The higher profile sports unfortunately get more scrutiny from outside of the schools. The schools themselves should NOT be subjecting any athletes of any kind to such public hangings.

That's a good way of articulating what I was thinking. The school itself brought attention to this, not an ESPN beat reporter.

They wouldn't write articles about their own football coach being on the hot seat. That's what ESPN does.

Important distinction between in-house and 3rd party reporting.

No. I'm pretty sure schools put out pressers for suspended football and basketball players.

It's national news in those sports as it affects betting lines.

ACSee wrote:

No. I'm pretty sure schools put out pressers for suspended football and basketball players.

It's national news in those sports as it affects betting lines.

Yeah you don't see any betting lines for college track and field lmao.

The reason track&field is treated as a second class sport is because it's own people can't handle the same level of publicity that basketball and football get. Athletes being suspended are news stories all of the time regardless of the school. Be and adult, accept the responsibility that comes with being a team. No one was shamed in that release.

Suspend kids but don't publicly shame them you moron. Why did these 4 need to get their names and faces broadcasted? You think that no one else gets suspended because you don't see f*cking announcements? You should be ashamed of yourself.

http://www.virginiasports.com/sports/c-xctrack/spec-rel/011317aad.html

As a student-athlete that has been suspended for a meet, I have to say I would have quit if my school felt like skewering me like this, leaving people to form their own opinions of why I was suspended and what I must be like as a person.

If only UVA had issued a press release when they suspended their throws coach for a year. Or when they reinstated him.

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2015/09/university-of-virginia-employing-banned-doper-as-throws-coach-coaches-association-honors-him-as-regional-coach-of-the-year/

PS. I changed the title of the thread from "Bryan Fetzer (UVA) is trash" as I thought that was over the top.

Why should they be treated different than football players who get suspended?

I would have never known about this without you posting it so you are getting these kids more attention that the school probably did. OP doesn't that make you part of the problem.

Occasionally, people in power have to demonstrate to the world where the power resides. That may be necessary or it may be done out of immaturity - you never know. Any athlete is entitled to quit and also entitled to challenge the motives of the suspension. The AD will probably back the coach but eventually this can get old and ADs will show a bit of immaturity of their own by flicking that tempestuous coach thru a formal, properly publicized firing.

On the other hand, the suspension may have been fully warranted, publicizing it for deterrent purposes.

I know, it can be embarrassing as hell but, sometimes, the coach's heart is in the right place.