Disturbing: NCAA champ and Olympian Erin Aldrich says coach John Rembao penetrated her on a flight when she was 18

bartholomew_maxwell wrote:

Seattle Flu wrote:

Jeez, are these coaches and team physicians no better than Catholic priests? Just sickening to have this garbage coming out every week now.

Few coaches of young adults and kids do it for purely altruistic reasons. Most of them are perverts who simply prey on the young and impressionable. And young people who are trying to get their foot in the door are more easy to manipulate than older seasoned adults.

Pervert coaches exploit the uncertainty and the aspirations of young athletes who feel that their relationship and standing with the coach is tantamount to their advancement in the sport. Also exploit naivety and undeveloped self esteem that young people have who are less sure of themselves than older folks.

Whoa! Slow down there speed racer.

I get a lot of things out of coaching, but sexual gratification isn’t one of those things.

Do I enjoy the competition? Yes. Do I enjoy the interactions with motivated young people? Absolutely! Do I form strong bonds with some athletes that last for decades? Yes! Does this mean that I’m some sort of predator? No way!

Most coaches I know are the same way when it comes to the coach athlete relationship. Just like most teachers are good people an sovare most priests and Boy Scout leaders.

Of course their are creeps and weirdos among us and perhaps some are drawn to the profession because of the ability to groom teens, but the statement above is so far out of the reality I’ve lived for the last 30 years that I just couldn’t let it slide.

uhhh.... no wrote:

keep in mind, the lawyer slant wrote:

Noticeably missing from the testimony in the report is the women asking no him to stop. It is literally not mentioned at all.

Noticeably missing from your slam dunk analysis esquire is that whole "abuse of power" thing.

Harv just got 23 pinned on him... and they weren't 17 year olds.

Uhhh... did he rape these women? Did he forcibly make them do something? Neither of us know the entire stories, but your reference to Harvey W is quite the stretch.

Again, Aldrich followed him to another university. She also admits they had a continual sexual relationship. That is stated in the report. And again, what is not stated in the report is any attempt to ask or demand him to stop. We are in a time where allegations are quite easy, and actual evidence might not be needed for whatever legal action is being sought.

As I stated in my first post, I am not backing this coach up, I am simply stating what is and isn't in the report.

I am not a boomer and you didn’t answer the question. You must be functionally illiterate.

Co-Flounder wrote:

I read the entire complaint. While I completely agree that on the basis of the complaint that he appears to be a creepy dude. Can someone please state what he did that was illegal?

There’s a multitude of things a person can get fired for that aren’t illegal. Taking advantage of someone you coach, teach or supervise is certainly one of them.

keep in mind, the lawyer slant wrote: She also followed this coach to UT after they had started a sexual relationship.

I am all for taking allegations seriously. But there are a lot of holes in this report.

I did find the report missing some stuff. So her roommate finds him in the closet and reports it. The AD knew about it. Did Arizona tell her parents the story? One would think parents wouldn’t let her transfer to UT if they knew about it.

rojo wrote:

We deleted a ton of posts from this thread. Posts unrelated about this specific allegation - like posts talking about Trump or Clinton abusing women - will be deleted as we don't want this turning into a politics thread.

Dude, that age of consent crap has nothing to do with any of this, either. Abuse of power happens regardless of relative ages.

Anywho, what's the deal with his wife? He did a bunch of this stuff in their home while the wife was also at home, but she would conveniently disappear so he could assault girls?

And good lord, I don't think I've seen an uglier coach than John Rembao. Dude is a straight up troll, it makes sense the only way he could land a wife is through control. Hell, I've seen very few uglier dudes in my life, period.

She may have a family but don’t assume that didn’t happen without a lot of assistance from medicine. This is typical female athlete triad syndrome.

I also want to bring to light the practice of coaches calling athletes while in high school. While I’ve never been a victim of abuse, I remember dreading my college coaches calls as they were often late at night and awkward. Does this type of calling HS kids happen to this day? And does anyone else find it to be somewhat unnecessary?

One point I totally don’t get is how she claims she transferred because of his abuse, yet ends up at the same school as him again...wtf?

WHAHUH? ... Bartholomew, you may look at kids that way but do NOT dump that on anyone else. Been involved in sports all my life as an athlete and a coach. People like Rembao who are "perverts who simply prey on the young and impressionable" are in the extreme minority and need to be driven out of the sport!

Seattle Flu wrote:

Jeez, are these coaches and team physicians no better than Catholic priests? Just sickening to have this garbage coming out every week now.

It's not the institution that matters; it's human nature. Most abuse is familial, as it happens.