A First: A Head Coach's Letter of Apology

[Publius]

I've had a few verbals offered up over the years, too. I "accept" them, but I don't "appreciate" them for a couple of reasons.

First, given the same situation again, 95% of the perps will react the same way again. Second, I don't take it personally anyway. Guys get frustrated during the heat of competition and do things that are mostly out-of-character for them. They can't stay if they do those things, but outside of a few that can be counted on one hand who have demonstrated otherwise, I don't take it as a measure of their character.

The apologies are meaningless to me; I don't think more of players who make them or less of players who don't.