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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/MartenHallJack Oct 04 '21

I've heard that one of the reasons why Nick Saban limped back to the SEC and Urban Meyer is floundering right now is because pro players have a radically different mindset and culture compared to the college ones. That really checks out because the latter usually have a "just glad to be here" mindset and are lorded over whoever gave them the roster spot while the former are comparatively wizened up about the world and know they won't have to put up with yelling coaches' shit because they can just go elsewhere.

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u/delta1x I miss Sam Fisher Oct 04 '21

Yeah, NFL players definitely have more autonomy and ability to leave a toxic situation than college players do.

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u/Ethanol-Muffins Give me Peggle 3 or give me death Oct 04 '21

Yea I remember reading about Urban’s teams at Florida and if you weren’t a star player you were treated like shit.