Memphis high school coach fired locker room rant

[gps4]

I think the situation would have better been served by giving the kid his walking papers. He basically lowered himself the level and maturity of a high school kid. I doubt that rant would inspire or motivate anyone.

[greenheadgrimreaper]

I don't se how anyone can walk away from that talk thinking it was for motivation. That was not a motivational talk. It was an booty chewing. Big difference. It's like a bossman once told me: you can't be mr. nice guy when you're in charge and expect results. Bottom line, those little punk a$$es needed a butt chewing, NOT motivation. Know the difference.

[mrs.blood dog]

Kinds of made me want to go strap on some pads!

Sounds like they needed that...there is no "I" in "team".

I'm right there with you....WHERE IS MY CHEERLEADER UNIFORM?!?!? I was a high school cheerleader and we needed that "pre-game pep-talk" just as much as the football players did!! That coach did NOTHING wrong!!

[jacksbuddy]

Whats the word on one of the players and a "friend" tresspassing that he eludes to? Someone from another school watching practice or something? If so, he needs his booty whipped.....by his team mates

VERY true.

I listened to this "rant". I don't get it. Why did the coach resign? Once while in Grad School, I just happened to be in the same gymnasium when the girls basketball coach was having an unofficial practice with the Lady Statesmen. Compared to what that Coach said to those girls? What this coach said to his girls is absolutely nothing.

[cockandlock25]

I don't agree with some of the choice words he used, but I was on the blunt end of more than one of those speeches in high school myself. Like some of you mentioned, it's probably cry baby kids who go home crying to mama because coach cussed at them. It's not that this coach is so much different than all the other coaches with his language, it's the difference in the kids and how they interpret it. Our coach always told us that if we weren't man enough to take it as motivation and constructive criticism to make us better, then we could pack up our duds and go to the house with mama. Kids need to toughen up these days. You don't need to involve the media in everything.

[blgros1]

All I got to say about it is (and i'm not usually to controversial about things over the internet but),,,,,,,,"if you are one of the ones who think this guy did something wrong, you need to stay your booty on the porch......

[skywalker]

Amazing what some people use as a guideline for 'measuring' a man..............

[brandonvet]

Whats the word on one of the players and a "friend" tresspassing that he eludes to? Someone from another school watching practice or something? If so, he needs his booty whipped.....by his team mates

Exactly...this recording was taken out of context...we got no idea what the h3ll he's pizzed about. I'm sure he had good reason to be pizzed.

I think part of the rub here is that he used all the foul language. Now I get that some people find foul language offensive and I do agree with Wingman, people of authority should not use it in public. But this, to me, is a different situation...it's a locker room, where a team's coach is needing to set some boys straight.

I mean what is high school football for??? Somebody please tell me what we intend our kids to learn by playing football! IMHO, high school football, for the vast majority of kids, is about learning how to be a MAN, learning how to take an booty chewing or a dawg cussin' if need be, learning how to be a team player, and learning how to be a leader. For kids nowadays, they aint got a clue about none of this crap without playing football or other team sports 'cause they're mommy and daddy don't care enough to teach 'em. Mommy and daddy put 'em in time-out because they're afraid to spank 'em...well my bible says..."spare the rod, spoil the child"!

Most of us on here probably grew up hard...that is to say that we had tough parents that taught us these sort of things. Me...I grew up with a sledge hammer in one hand and a shovel in the other. By the time I was 14, I was working on a commercial construction crew alongside some pretty rough men. Appropriate..well maybe not for some, but...Well, I learned real quick about how to be a man, 'cause they didn't cut me no slack...but I learned, just like many of you did. The things I heard and things I learned weren't meant for everyone to hear, it certainly wasn't appropriate conversation for a churchlady social. But to me that's part of it...you learn that on a football team and on a football field you do and say and hear things that aren't gonna be appropriate anywhere else. Where else do we expect these boys to go push, shove, or tackle another person...we don't...if it happens off the field it's called "assault" and it's illegal. Get my point? Football is a brutal sport...not for everybody. Learning to be a man is tough, you're gonna get your feelings hurt sometimes, get over it.

Bottom line is...this dawg cussin should've never got heard anywhere else, and taken out of context, to some it sounds harsh... but to me, it sounds like a football coach trying to teach some panty-wearing boys how to be men. If it hurts your feelings or anybody else's then don't listen to it....don't let the boy play football...let him take piano lessons or send him to a shrink and put him on ADHD meds or whatever it is these new hippy-booty, panty wearing folks do these days! This is part of what's wrong with America, there ain't many real MEN left out there. And no I aint saying that you gotta curse (cuss) to be a man...that aint what i'm talking about...I'm talking about the harshness of his words and the reality that somebody F'd up and had to pay the piper. There's been plenty of respectable men that were leaders that didn't cuss, but they used other methods to get their point across. This is about boys needing to grow up, plain and simple.

[brandonvet]

...matter of fact, I think it oughtta be mandantory for every high school boy that's got a pair of peanuts to at least play a sport of some kind in high school. Every school age boy needs a strong shot of "yo mamma aint here to wipe yo booty no more", and "welcome to the real world where men have responsibilities", and "some day you gotta man-up and grow a pair"! We'd have alot less BS in this country if that was the case.

[skywalker]

Well I guess by most of the logic on this thread that an overwhelming majority of our 'founding fathers' and 'generals' were not much of men.......Go back and read their letters, their diaries, biographies and auto-biographies.......not much foul language at all. Amazing how they motivated men to risk their lives and follow them in a cause. Some may have had a foul mouth and a drinking problem, but they were the exception not the rule, quite different than today.

[blgros1]

Amazing what some people use as a guideline for 'measuring' a man..............

Actually being a man has nothing to do with it, and im not sure where i implied you were not a man, but if you cant deal with all the aspects of competitive team sports and what comes along with the total package(i.e. booty chewing coupled with a few cuss words),,,,,,,,,,,do as the coach said" play golf" or in my words "stay on the porch"

[fireplug]

Had a football coach give out some butt chewings for sure and would snatch your helmet off your head almost when he grabbed you by the face mask, but you never heard a cuss word come out of his mouth and you dang well better not let one come out of your mouth or you would surely be sorry you did. I have had the pleasure of having college coaches get in some good cussing rants though. I'm not for them or against them. I agree that if you are scared you are going to get your feelings hurt being on a sports team of any kind, I suggest you take up knitting or basket weaving, because it's going to happen. In life there are winners and looser, just like in sports. Might as well teach your kid young to be a winner. May not be the best in everything, but just don't be last.

"If you're not first your last." Ricky Bobby.

[skywalker]

never took it that way, blgros1, no sweat. Each to his own......I don't communicate that way and will never condone it, no matter what location or circumstance.

[GrizwalD]

Ok, what if it was a bunch of kids cutting up, smarting off, underage drinking, out past curfew or whatever, and a cop cusses them out and sends em home. I bet half if not all of you would be calling to complain on him or asking for his resignation.

HAHAHAHA id be glad he sent me home and not to jail .....just sayin

[Odis]

I don't condone or condemn the guy for doing what he did but when is it too much? My son (10 years old well away from high school) plays select baseball. Last year at the State Fall Championship his PAID - PROFESSIONAL coach got on him for an error he made playing at first base. I was fine with that, my son knew better, just didn't react fast enough and a ball got past him. Coach went ballistic, dressed him down pretty good at the game in front of his team. I went to talk to the guy. I was not upset wasn't really going to say much if anything other than maybe sorry that happened, I knew he'd made an error too and so did my son, no big deal. He knew my son knew better than to make an error like he did, just a mistake and my boy doesn't make too many playing baseball. Once I spoke to the coach, I realized he'd come to the game drunk, after a minute or two the umpires figured it out too and threw him out of the game (actually out of the entire park). So when is enough, enough?