(02-13-2021, 07:47 PM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(02-13-2021, 07:38 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: I got told by a coach if I didn't shape up, I was going to have to go back to the trailer park and work 12 hour days in a factory after I graduated. I have never lived in a trailer park. I grew up in a middle class family in a rural area, but we had a nice house and both my parents had decent jobs. I never took what the coach said as offensive, it was just a way to motivate kids to be better. It was a different time back then. People had thicker skin and weren't so ultra sensitive. We had to work for everything we got. Nowadays, kids of all races, just want things handed to them without facing any adversity.

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You sound like one of those overly sensitive people that I was talking about.

That type of motivation worked for YOU. It doesn’t work for everyone and there’s nothing wrong with that.

I had one player where all I had to do was give him the look and he would understand and turn it around. Another player had to be motivated by taking him out of the game considering he was our best player and it would fire him up. People learn differently and are motivated differently. If you call one player fat, it’ll motivate them to lose weight. Another one will internalize it and it will have the opposite effect. 

So yes, your coach belittling you worked for you but it doesn’t work for everyone.

I know that, but I'm just pointing out if that is how he learned to coach, that is gonna be his coaching style. He might not mean any harm in it, he's just trying to motivate his players the way he was motivated. Instead of firing the guy, maybe they should have sat him down and pointed out what is and what isn't acceptable nowadays. From what I read, he wasn't given a chance to change. He was just unceremoniously fired and isn't being given any second chances to change. It just seems ridiculous that Tyreek Hill beats women and children and basically, everyone forgets that and he is heralded. Michael Vick tortured and killed dogs and that's just fine. Fox gives him a new gig as an analyst on Sunday mornings. Doyle on the other hand, said some out of turn things and hurt people's feelings, yet he is essentially cancelled. To me, that just seems like society is devolving.

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