It's not a huge deal. If he's dumb enough to use language that professional hypersensitives have become insanely wealthy on in a situation where he can be filmed doing so, then he's too dumb to have in a position representing a public institution. If he's enough of an asshole to use such over-the-top offensive language as a regular teaching method, he's probably not the right kind of person to be a position of authority. Kicking a player in the ass, throwing basketballs, and moving players to the correct position with overly physical effort may be signs of gross immaturity and some serious anger-management issues, but they're certainly not abuse. If I was the AD, in addition to the suspension he'd get a specific list of unacceptable behaviors, and he would be put on notice that there would be zero tolerance for those behaviors.
What is your definition of abuse in a coach/player relationship then? If I kicked, threw basketballs or yelled slurs at my wife, children, or employees it would certainly be defined legally as abuse. How is the Rutgers practice facility different? If I threw a beer keg at your head.......OK, bad example.......
My high school baseball coach used to throw golf balls at us if we didn't use proper footwork on double plays. Guy was nuttier than a squirrel turd. No wonder I'm such a dick.
HCP may hunt you down for that comment. He apparently has very thin skin when it comes to his boy Rice.
My high school coach would actually throw a basketball right at you (chest) if you weren't paying attention while he was talking. He also would yell at us to check between our legs when challenging us to take it strong to the basket. He was a yeller and a screamer, but most players loved him and no one complained about the throwing of the ball or yelling . . . which makes me think it takes a whole hell of a lot to get suspended for coach conduct to players. It's funny because I dreaded my baseball coach more (and thought he was more of a dick) because he would run us to death if we were goofing off.
There's a reason talented players with actual self-esteem don't make good coaches, and the striving, grasping assholes do. Those who can't do teach. Those who can't accept being bad at a sport coach.
Criticizing players, coaches, GMs, politicians, and all sorts of public figures is standard procedure around here. I see no reason why Mike Rice should be exempt from this just because he is a friend of HCP.
I think there are certain areas that are off limits and knocking a guy for the actions of his son crosses that line for me. Feel free to critique Mike and Mike though as I have kept them on mute and had the radio broadcast on of Wheels and Tone for years.
Jesus, my apologies. I can read just fine. Sorry. Seems a little contradictory to defend him while saying he should be fired. Yes, he should be fired, but....you're all pussies for thinking what he did was wrong.
I guess people have all kinds of personal "lines." For me, joking that a father must be "proud" of his son's misbehavior doesn't even rise to the level of the average insult around here.
Rice is going to have to resign. Watching the video on SportsCenter, there is no excuse for repeatedly acting like that toward your team. If you do it once or twice for effect, I may view it differently, but it seems his players get balls thrown at them all of the time by him. That's just not effective coaching, IMO, in terms of motivation. It's a bit pathological, IMO, and Rice should take some time and re-evaluate how he views leadership.
...or something similar [video=youtube;3LAnmnS0-9g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LAnmnS0-9g[/video]
How in the holy hell does he still have a job? The suspension will change to a firing since there is so much attention on this now, but it should have been done in the first place
...I suppose it could have been worse [video=youtube;dDeId4j7LJE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDeId4j7LJE[/video]
