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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 880075, member: 628"]
Here's a question... why is it that sports is the youth endeavor where we think yelling and general over-the-top hard ass behavior by "teachers" is (relatively) acceptable.

I was a band geek as a kid, and once in a while my high school director (who is nationally renowned ) would lay into us.  But certainly not with the frequency and aggressive tenor that we see from coaches.  Yet, the jazz program I was a part of won national competitions every single year for nearly 2 decades.  We were a dynasty in every sense of the word.

My wife was in competitive dance programs and drama productions, and again, occasionally the leader of those groups would get on them about something, but not like we see from sports coaches.

I don't understand, honestly.  Why is it that in sports we so readily accept boorish behavior from coaches, but not in other fields.  And it's not like programs in those other fields don't experience the same levels of sustained success from great leaders.
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