OT - another coach that should be taken out and horsewhipped

[Adam]

Originally Posted by deecee

If this was 18-30, would you be ok with it? If so, what changed, besides the legality of the situation?

I'll answer this, but this is on the verge of veering completely off the rails.

No, I wouldn't be ok with it: especially in the case of a coach/player relationship. Even college coaches aren't allowed to date their players, for good reason. High school coaches dating high school seniors on their team?

The other fact is, this guy is not exactly being plopped into our culture in a vacuum. He's fully aware of the legalities and ethics involved.

I'll concede there's an "arbitrary" nature to this law, but there's no way around that. Obviously (to most of us in America), a 30 year old teacher dating a 16 year old student is abhorrent. A 19 year old college student dating that a 17 year old student seems ok to most of us. The threshold is somewhere in the middle, and if we're enforcing laws, it has to be set somewhere by some "arbitrary" measure.