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Message: [QUOTE="dinosaurbbq, post: 880604, member: 1333"] That's a great point Scooch and I agree that parents are responsible for developing their children's character not a coach. As a parent, though, I think it isn't that you want a head football coach to do your job for you, but instead that you are concerned about two other issues. First, as parents we don't want morally bankrupt people (whether they are friends, bullies, fellow students, coaches or other adults) around our kids particularly when they are away from home for four years and left to make their own decisions, because they could influence our kids to abandon their sense of right and wrong. A football player seeing a coach without integrity standing before him making $3 million/yr could certainly lead the kid to adopt a ends justifies the means philosophy that is ultimately not good for the kid. Second and more important, as a parent you don't want your son to play for a win at all cost coach with really questionable moral integrity, because that coach has significant power over your son while in college and in the future and can make your son do things that aren't good for your son (ex. demanding he take steroids to bulk up, making him play or lift weights or practice or whatever despite obvious injury and the likelihood that it will get worse, demanding he devote twice as much time to football as the NCAA regs allow at the cost of time spent on studies, demanding he let a tutor take a test for him instead of studying and taking the test himself, subjecting the kid to hazing or even knowingly allowing the kid to be hazed horribly in an abusive manner, sit the bench despite superior talent because another kid's father paid him off). [/QUOTE]

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