What is the most abusive thing a hs coach ever said to you?

doot doot wrote:

"Just relax..." 😉

Was Jerry Sandusky your coach?

When I played football, we had an OL coach that was known for having an explosive temper. Rather than complain (like this generation tends to do), I sucked it up and did what was told of me. I learned discipline, hard work, and became a better person from it. I went from a lazy/overweight teenager to one of the top linemen in the state. Here's some of his highlights (not for the overly sensitive);

As he grabbed my face mask and jerked it wildly, then hitting my helmet with his hand, "You little dumb shit! What the F$%* were you doing?!"

"You gotta go piss?! Get the f*$& over there behind that tree and take a piss, pissant!!!"

He also liked to use Up Downs as a form of punishment/conditioning. One Monday practice after an embarrassing loss, we knew we were in for it. We ended up doing over 700 Up Downs in full gear, as well as sprints and lots of full contact drills.

To see if we were in proper 3 point stance, he would kick us in the butt or stand on our fingers.

The XC/Track coach was known for his temper too. We used to do stuff, just to see him blow his top. He used to always smoke Vantage cigarettes during practices and the meets.

I remember him once telling the XC runners after a bad meet, "Normally, I'd tell you guys good job, but after this weekend, you guys suck"

In highschool my coach told me I should take up racewalking.

I'm sorry, but you are some awfully sensitive people to categorize this stuff as abusive.

"Stop talking and start running" is abuse?

"Act like you've been there before?"

Wow.

Bob Knight wrote:

I'm sorry, but you are some awfully sensitive people to categorize this stuff as abusive.

"Stop talking and start running" is abuse?

"Act like you've been there before?"

Wow.

Yeah, these nancy boys need chairs thrown on their faces.

In context, I'm male and this was actually a huge compliment from him , and about the only one he ever gave me, he said: "you're looking skinny". I had improved a ton and was faster than I'd ever been. But, he didn't say how fast I was or anything, just that one line. And I clearly have never forgotten it nor have I ever forgotten how good it made me feel.

Bring on the tampon jokes.

Not me but a friend: ".....Damn YOU!!!!"

This was a coach that produced a few world class runners. But burnt out even more.

If my coach was really upset with you, he'd call you a doughnut. The more upset with you he was, the more descriptive he became:

Mildly upset - you're a doughnut

Upset - you're a sugar doughnut.

Very upset - you're a chocolate covered, honey glazed doughnut with sprinkles.

When walking back to the locker room after a bad workout, we started cheering loudly for the tennis team (tennis matches are always supposed to be silent when in play). Our coach apparently got a talking to from the AD and then he came in the locker room and dropped maybe 20-30 F bombs about how immature we were and how much we sucked. We have doors that close on their own, so when he tried to slam the door on the way out, it kind of stopped and he made a really awkward motion to close the door, really funny. Most of us laughed after the door slam.

My junior year we were on the bubble for making states and he had a varsity only meeting. During the meeting he basically told us he didn't care what happened with the rest of the team because he was going to states anyways (our top 2 were studs, solid 3-4 and a big drop off to 5-6-7). After the meeting (meetings were always pre practice) we had an easy run and we were all not happy with his attitude. We all felt given up on. None of us really even talked much. I lost a lot of respect for him that day.

We didn't cool down after an XC dual meet (we all ended up running pretty well) and our coach chewed us out in front of the parents and the other team (course finished on the track so everyone was near the bleachers), with his main point being that we didn't run well. He apologized the next day after he looked at the times.

IMO not a very good coach, was a man of few words, but few too many words. Never went out of his way to help you, if you needed anything you had to bug him about it. Also, the training was all over the place, he makes up workouts on the spot and all of the distances (measured multiple times with a gps watch) were always short. 1k's were about 940 meters, 2k's were about 1920 meters, 3k's about 2860 meters. The worst were 600'e that weren't even 500 meters, he was asked if the distance was legit once and said yes, right after a group of kids that were 17:00-18:00 for 5k finished in 1:32-35. But he would always give us goal paces that would be for the actual distance, so we would all have fast times and then he would wonder why we could never run as fast in the races as our workouts. Sorry for the rant.

Jerry wrote:

Bend over and pick up the soap

Coach Paterno said " Get over it. Sandusky's just being friendly."

"Quit running like cocksucking fag"

Nothing. I heard other coaches say stuff like "that's not good enough, you need to run faster!" on every lap split of a track race. I can't imagine that would help anyone run faster.

One of my coaches liked saying "suck my dick says what"

Harassment Lawsuit Coming wrote:

One of my coaches liked saying "suck my dick says what"

I would've busted out laughing so hard if I heard my coach say that.

You're an average kid. Everything you do is average. Busted my butt for 2 years to get under 4:40 in the mile which is average for this board but did OK in my small town/region.

"Good morning" as he walked out of my moms room.

This is really, really light stuff. Abusive?

I'll be honest. None of this touches the stuff I've said; however, I can't think of a single thing I've said that I regret or think didn't need to be said. If it hurt some feelings, it was because it was true. I don't think it falls under the category of abusive if I'm pointing out a significant character flaw that is hurting the athlete and the team. After all, aren't they all supposed to be in this together? Trying to grow as people? Once someone gets in the way of that and shows no will to change....Then why are they even here?

My triggers are selfishness, lying, and lack of effort. I don't take well to people who screw over their teammates, who lie to me or the team, and who consistently put forth little effort. These all indicate that the person doesn't care about the team or the sport.

By the time I get to the point of yelling, everyone on the team would probably agree that anything said was well deserved.

The one thing I'm working on is being more direct earlier in the process. I want people to do the right thing, but some of them never learned that lesson at home. I forget that sometimes, so I've begun teaching it/preaching it.

" You're too f'' n fat, Sonja."

The worst thing you can say to a teenage girl. Cried myself to sleep that night.

SonjaHenie wrote:

" You're too f'' n fat, Sonja."

The worst thing you can say to a teenage girl. Cried myself to sleep that night.

A coach wouldn't say that if it wasn't true. Are you still too f'n fat?