OT - former girls basketball coach pleads not guilty

[JRutledge]

I happen to agree with Snaq on this. I think putting everyone on a sex offender's list is not the answer. And the age of 22 and 17 is not that far apart if there was some level of a mutual relationship. Now you can make the case this is not a mutual relationship, but a 17 year old is only a year away from 18 and can drive and soon vote. I guess I have a problem if an 18 year old were to get involved with a 17 year old and somehow they were accused of an inappropriate relationship and then accused of a crime.

I think a lot of parents do not want to face that your 17 year old is not like a 17 year old was when you were a kid. This is certainly not always a black and white situation that is for sure.

Peace

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I think a lot of parents do not want to face that your 17 year old is not like a 17 year old was when you were a kid. This is certainly not always a black and white situation that is for sure.

A-freaking-men!!!!!! Lot of common sense right there imo.

And that's not necessarily bad either.

With the internet and information technology available, today's kids are completely different than the generation before them. And that's the way it's always been. And the way that they look at sex today sureashell points that out. Hell, the average kid today probably knows one helluva lot more about sexuality than I did when I had been married 5 years.

You can give your kids your values and hope that they'll follow them. But part of growing up for every generation's kids is them forming their own values. And they will make mistakes while doing so. Most kids learn from their mistakes. Some of us did. Some didn't.

The game of basketball is constantly changing and evolving. And basketball officials have to change and evolve with it. The same is true of life.