I think anyone called any of these names by their coach and thinks it's "mental abuse" needs to grow a pair.
Well, the players for one. Their parents. The alumni of the university who now get to watch their alma mater being embarrassed on ESPN. The taxpayers of the state of New Jersey who are helping to pay his salary. Seeing as how these players earned scholarships to attend Rutgers, one assumes most had opportunities to play at other colleges - and you can be damn sure high school kids watching this and being recruited by Rutgers are going to think it is a big deal.
And I think anyone that condones these actions needs to reexamine their priorities. The people that need to bully in these cases are usually only doing so in order to deal with their own flaws and only serves to make themselves feel better about being a loser.
well, having coached at the high school level, kids are fucking pussies and punk asses. If you're not a hardass on them, they won't have the work ethic. Just like the miliatary, you have to be a hard ass to get yourself together.
So it's acceptable to just wing basketballs at a players head? Not that big a deal? Gimme a break. And don't tell me about the good old days when any dick head of a guy can be a coach and berate and abuse kids.
I never experienced this in basketball or baseball. My dad coached me for several years. He had some serious talent on his teams, including some kids whose dad's were former NBA players and they themselves went on to solid AAU careers and even college careers. And when I went further into AAU basketball, Nike leagues, and some of the baseball leagues..... I can't remember anyone being abused. Maybe I heard "sissies" a few times. Maybe "pussies" a couple times. But that was the extent.
You guys are ridiculous. He's not just being a dick to be a dick and make himself feel better. It's a style of coaching. It's been successful in the past and will be again in the future. And I guarantee he's not like this all the time, but sometimes stuff like this is useful. Okay, the ball throwing is over the top, but grabbing an adult athlete and shoving him a little bit on the court is not a big deal at all. Oh no he calls them fairies!!! Give me a break.
And would it be ok if a teacher in a classroom acted this way, to you? Throwing chalk at kids, shoving them when they are answering questions wrong, and berating the shit out of them for not knowing details?
Are you talking to me? Shit, I never played CYO. I'm not trying to talk myself up, but I never played CYO. Was too busy with AAU and some of the other select leagues to ever play CYO.
I had a teacher that used to throw chalk at you if you were screwing around and/or not paying attention. Her rule was that you could throw it back, though.
So why should student athletes at a college be subjected to physical and emotional abuse, but not other students? A sport justifies an asshole at the lead? And is allowed to shove kids, and hurl things at them?
I guess you're just going to ignore what former NBA player Eric Murdock said in the video about him never seeing anything like it? Rice's behavior is way over the top.
College students are not kids, and I've already stated that throwing the balls at them was over the top. I think sport definitely justifies the physicality.
