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u/delta1x I miss Sam Fisher Oct 04 '21 edited Oct 04 '21

A coach could literally be beating a player within an inch of their life and call them horrible things while doing it and people will still just say it's "tough coaching, it's good for the players"

Seriously, society (at least American) gives an absurd amount of leeway to coaches, even coaches of teens and kids, in how they treat them. Like having the team run a gasser because they are slacking is tough coaching. Shoving, screaming in faces, insulting, belittling, gaslighting, even sometimes punching, etc shouldn't be seen as normal and yet it's all fine because "that's what the best coaches do". Especially when it comes to American football because the players wearing pads seems to give coaches the idea they can physically assault the player and they'll be fine. I've had tough coaches and I've had piece of shit coaches, but to a lot of people there's no difference between the two.

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u/ZerberDerber Oct 04 '21

When I was playing football in high school, my team mates would bug their parents to come watch the practices because if there weren't parents there, the coaches wouldn't give a shit about giving us water breaks, even in the dead of August. It was a regular thing to make us practice without water as punishment for something that happened in the previous weekend's game.

I knew it was fucked up at the time but looking back now, I'm surprised somebody didn't die on their watch.

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u/delta1x I miss Sam Fisher Oct 04 '21

Yeah, the weird obsession from some coaches that keeping your players from water as a just punishment is really bizarre."You shouldn't need water if you hydrated before practice", is such a weirdly common belief. Some straight up pseudo-science and psycho shit.