Thursday, April 04, 2013
When do college coaches go too far?
In that corner: college coaches instill discipline, motivation, and help his players' development. This is a tough environment for the players, and they need to be toughened up.
In this corner: college coaches have no oversight. These coaches are cowards and bullies. They don't do it to better their players. They do it because they are exasperated, and they do it out of anger. It's not out of self-control and discipline that they "toughen" up their players. It's desperation.
In the other corner: there's no difference between college coaches, engineering competition coaches and spelling bee coaches. Competition is competition, and that one requires far more physical exertion doesn't mean you can apply physical and psychological "motivations" that are demeaning and based on power differentials.
And in the fourth corner: Tiger Woods' father cursed the worst obscenities at him while golfing, to make him focused. Michael Jackson's father was quite the disciplinarian. It worked out great from the high-level view... and not so great at the ground-level view.
Which corner do you stand in? ?
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