High School Football coach suspends entire team for "Lack of Character" - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Matt Labrum, head coach of Union High School in Roosevelt, Utah, suspended all 80 of his players on Saturday after the team’s 40-16 loss, according to the Deseret News. The suspensions had nothing to do with the loss or the players’ performance on the field, though. Instead, Labrum cited a “lack of character” as the reasoning for the team’s collective punishment. Some players were skipping classes or were involved in cyberbullying against a fellow student, according to the report. So, on Saturday, the head coach met with his players and gave each of them a letter outlining what each would need to do to earn back his spot on the team.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://www.yardbarker.com/media/4/f/4ffa3185f1c3ade491e2cb9192886b65f7e257b5/xl/1219702.jpg[/IMG] I think this is kind of neat. Making football players earn their place back on the time for being complete asswipes. [URL="http://www.yardbarker.com/high_school/articles/msn/utah_high_school_football_coach_suspends_entire_team_for_lack_of_character_makes_them_do_community_service/14627456"]http://www.yardbarker.com/high_school/articles/msn/utah_high_school_football_coach_suspends_entire_team_for_lack_of_character_makes_them_do_community_service/14627456[/URL] [editline]25th September 2013[/editline] Forgot to add this. They are forced to do community service.

nice a coach who doesn't tolerate bullshit from the team. too many coaches turn a blind eye or cover up things like bullying.

good on the coach

the massive popularity american football in the us education system(both secondary and post-secondary) is often unfortunately a tool used by some players to get out of punishments for often serious crimes, (even going so far as rape or violence) but this is a good thing my automerge

Overall a good move, but I bet there were at least one or two people on the team who weren't doing anything wrong.

[QUOTE=SamPerson123;42309965]Overall a good move, but I bet there were at least one or two people on the team who weren't doing anything wrong.[/QUOTE] coaches like to do the 'one fucks up, you all suffer' thing gets the good ones pissed at the bad ones and peer pressure does the rest

[QUOTE=Loriborn;42309956]american football in the us education system(both secondary and post-secondary) is often unfortunately a tool used by players to get out of punishments for often serious crimes (even going so far as rape or violence) my automerge[/QUOTE] What the fuck? no. Sports players face some of the hardest regulations with alcohol and drugs. They violate those, they get suspended or even removed from the team.

I will always stand by punishing a whole team for the actions of a few, those few will learn right the fuck away that they were wrong and will sure as hell never do it again.

The perspective in that photo is fucking with me.

[QUOTE=Loriborn;42309956]the massive popularity american football in the us education system(both secondary and post-secondary) is often unfortunately a tool used by some players to get out of punishments for often serious crimes, (even going so far as rape or violence) but this is a good thing my automerge[/QUOTE] Unless you're at professional level (or perhaps almost there?) committing a crime will most likely end your sports career in the US

[QUOTE=Hunterdnrc;42310064]The perspective in that photo is fucking with me.[/QUOTE] He may be small but he's sure quick

Coach Carter

[QUOTE=areolop;42309991]What the fuck? no. Sports players face some of the hardest regulations with alcohol and drugs. They violate those, they get suspended or even removed from the team.[/QUOTE] They also get away with shit, there have been a few cases of schools changing grades or giving credit for non-existent classes. Plus it is pretty common in some areas for athletes to all take the same classes which has been set up to make it easier for them to maintain a solid GPA, because they bring in a ton of money for the school. Everyone at my college knows people look the other way with athlete alcohol and drug use, our lacrosse team is known as the biggest partiers on campus. [quote=ESPN]In May, UNC made public an internal probe that found 54 AFAM classes were either "aberrant" or "irregularly" taught from summer 2007 to summer 2011. That included unauthorized grade changes, forged faculty signatures on grade rolls, and limited or no class time. UNC has said that no student received a grade without submitting written work. But more than 50 percent of the students in those suspect classes were athletes. As first reported by The News & Observer of Raleigh, one class last summer had an enrollment of 19 -- 18 football players and one former football player. Late last month, a faculty committee looking into the scandal issued a new report stating that academic counselors assigned to the athletes may have steered them into those classes.[/quote] Now I want to be clear that not all schools/athletes do this but enough to where it is becoming an issue.

[QUOTE=areolop;42309991]What the fuck? no. Sports players face some of the hardest regulations with alcohol and drugs. They violate those, they get suspended or even removed from the team.[/QUOTE] [sp]OJ Simpson[/sp]

Good. High school football players get away with far too much academic laziness and general assholery towards their fellow students. IT's about time someone somewhere does something about it.

[QUOTE=toaster468;42310493][sp]OJ Simpson[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]Law enforcement fucked up evidence collection[/sp]

[QUOTE=yawmwen;42309939]nice a coach who doesn't tolerate bullshit from the team. too many coaches turn a blind eye or cover up things like bullying.[/QUOTE] Alot of them even cover up rapes. I'm glad to see somebody cracking the whip.

One of the kids on our swim team swam a 100 backstroke with goddamn scuba goggles, going all over the place. I think he even turned around halfway at one point, swimming in circles. All his bros were laughing like hell, but the look on the coach's face was fury and embarrassment. Can't believe he didn't do anything about it.

I remember once in 7th grade this kid did something and the coach made us all clean the locker room and run Later everyone cornered the kid and beat the living shit out of him. It was cool.

from that title I was expecting something more like calvin's dad's definition of character from calvin and hobbes