07-15-2005, 05:53 PM | #1 | |||
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Coach Pays Kid to Hurt Retarded Kid
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Seriously- wtf ? You think hurting the kid is the best way to do this ? |
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07-15-2005, 05:57 PM | #2 |
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That is one f'd up dude.
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07-15-2005, 06:01 PM | #3 |
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If this is true (innocent until proven guilty and all that), then it's sad and extremely disheartening to youth sports.
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07-15-2005, 07:11 PM | #4 |
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"The coach was very competitive," state police Trooper Thomas B. Broadwater said. "He wanted to win."
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07-15-2005, 07:31 PM | #5 |
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As someone whose coached youth soccer before (12 and 13 year old girls), I find this particularly repungant.
I always made sure even the worst players on my team got roughly a half's worth of play in if I could. Did this hurt my record? Not really... It was essentially the same team that had gone 1-15 the year before... I took them over and we went 6-9-1, including an upset of the number one team in the league, whose only loss that year was to us. Plus, I find when you play all your kids, some of them really develop and make progress. My favourite example was a girl on the team named Leah. She was awkward in net, but I saw she had potential there, so I split both starts and time in goal between her and this other girl. By the end of the season, she not only solidified the starting spot permanently from Brittany, she'd turned into a damn good goalie and even had a couple shutouts. More importantly, she had elevated her self-confidence to a level she'd never had before. Her mom was amazed at the difference. And I think that's what youth sports is really all about. It's not necessarily about turning the kids into superstars and all that kind of thing, though you do try and help them develop their skills. What's most important is the sense of self-confidence they can get from it and the fun they can have from playing the game... and of course winning a few games is always nice, too.
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07-15-2005, 07:36 PM | #6 |
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People suck.
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07-15-2005, 07:37 PM | #7 |
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The best youth sports teams I was on played everyone at least some. It helps develop a team spirit, a key ingredient in a winning team.
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07-15-2005, 07:41 PM | #8 |
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He should get together with that drunk mom.
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07-15-2005, 07:42 PM | #9 | |
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Izulde's first game... Izulde: All right, girls! I am looking for you to play good enough to inspire our fans... take their breath away and expand their creative horizons again... I want you to soar with each pass or slide tackle and know there's still beauty in the world and make it dazzle with each and every goal... and I want you to show us all that. Girls: Yes! Yes that's exactly what we want to do, coach! So then I grinned, leapt on my feet, walked over on the blanket and we all joined hands.. "What I want you all to do is lift us off our feet and show us how to fly again... to live again..." Looking back on it now, there was a sparkle in their eyes... I think I saw that moment in their collective faces... then, just as we were about to take the field, I paused and waited too long... so they laughed, said I was a dork and they ran off to pick blackberries again together. We had to forefeit the game.
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07-15-2005, 07:51 PM | #10 |
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wow. speechless.
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07-15-2005, 08:34 PM | #11 |
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Sorry, but I don't buy this story. It sounds like one of those stories that starts out based on a tiny grain of truth, and then rumors start flying, and it just snowballs into something much bigger until the press finally gets hold of it. Like maybe the guy made a joke about the kid getting hurt, and then he really did happen to get hurt accidentally, and then everyone starts making assumptions from there.
I coach my kid's baseball team, and at the t-ball level in our league, they don't even keep score. So why would a coach be that opposed to playing the disabled kid to actually want to hurt him? Maybe he is just an evil person, but I'd like to think there is more to this story than this. |
07-16-2005, 11:16 AM | #12 |
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In defense of this guy, the retarded kid must have been a really bad player. The other kids want to win too, and why should they have to suffer so that one kid doesn't get his feelings hurt. I mean, T-ball is an important part of society and this kid shouldn't have been on the team in the first place...
OK, in all seriousness this asshole should have his legs cut off at the knees then put on an adult softball team and forced to play center field. When he can't get to the pop-fly his teammates should beat him until he can't remember his own name.
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07-16-2005, 02:29 PM | #13 |
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The coach should be shot...Seriously...BTW, the kid is a retard. Couldn't the coach have paid the tard the 25 bucks to hurt himself and cut out the middle man, err. I mean kid...
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