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Originally Posted by Old School
JRut, I understand your position here but it is the opposite extreme of what we are talking about. This tread is not about kids needing more discipline in there life or kids needing to toughen up.
The case I bought up with the child crying on the court. We’re talking kids still in grade school. The coach who was black wanted the white player who was taller than all the other kids in his age group to toughen up and play like a man. The kid was giving it his all, so much so, he was crying right there on the court. Damn near the whole game. My question to all of you is, when did you all lose site of kids just being kids? You have become the Roman society. When did bb become so damn important that kids now have to be adults before puberty sets in. Do you know that you will spend the majority of your life as an adult? How about we let kids be kids during those precious years where they don’t have a care in the world, instead of enforcing our selfish motives to win a bb game so they must grow up right now and get tough. I bet there was a lot of other places that kid would have rather been then running up and down that court crying. In fact, that type of abuse (and yes, I believe it is abusive to treat a kid this way) may turn this kid off to bb forever. That is the part that I speak about when I say it’s a sad state of affairs in this industry.
Last, did you know that bully’s, kids that abuse other kids, or kids that are abused themselves. Did you know that? Where does this abuse start or come from? Could it be from being forced to do something they don’t want to do. I’m all for disciplining kids in a proper and respectful manner and there will be tough ramifications if you do something wrong. However valid your argument is JRut, it missed the boat here. You shot an airball, but it looked good.
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Unless this is your child, since when is a U17 player still in grade school? U17's are usually sophomores or juniors in high school. My 2cents, that is an issue between the coach and the player. The parents let/chose this coach to coach their child. It's no different than the players that go play for Coach Knight. I personally wouldn't want/let my child play for a coach like that, but there are plenty of parents who would. What would you do if this was a Texas Tech/ K-State (although Huggins isn't there anymore) and they started to yell at a player and made that player cry? That player may only be 18-19 years old. All in all, I think you handled this about the way that I would have.