Plus 1 for Coach Stallings

[albanycuse]

No room for punk players.
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[CuseFaninVT]

No room for punk players.
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Can't believe he's getting crap for saying "I'm going to bleeping kill you." Obviously no one in the real world believes he would ever mean that literally, but now he has to explain that instead of being commended for expecting his players to behave like decent people.

 

[albanycuse]

Can't believe he's getting crap for saying "I'm going to bleeping kill you." Obviously no one in the real world believes he would ever mean that literally, but now he has to explain that instead of being commended for expecting his players to behave like decent people.

Exactly. This country has gone to crap with the pc bs.

 

[orange79]

I don't know - there are ways to get your point across without 'threatening' to kill someone. Whether you mean it or not. If my boss said this to me, I would be retiring comfortably in the very near future.

 

[Ghost]

I don't know - there are ways to get your point across without 'threatening' to kill someone.

Disagree entirely! Name one!

 

[CusefanATL]

I don't know - there are ways to get your point across without 'threatening' to kill someone. Whether you mean it or not. If my boss said this to me, I would be retiring comfortably in the very near future.

valid point... but coaches are commonly thought of as "father figures"... bosses absolutely are not thought that way.

"father figures" can say things like "I'm going to kill you" or "shut the up"

"bosses" can not.

Jim Boeheim professed his love for Carmelo. Imagine how weird that would have been had JB been Melo's boss.

So while the point you made was valid, it was comparing apples and oranges.

 

[Jake]

I don't know - there are ways to get your point across without 'threatening' to kill someone. Whether you mean it or not. If my boss said this to me, I would be retiring comfortably in the very near future.

Eh. I would never equate a boss to a coach. To me, they are not even remotely close. I have no problem with stallings reaction. None. Nada.

 

[longtimefan]

Exactly. This country has gone to crap with the pc bs.

PC's got nothing to do with it. He's berating his player about lack of sportsmanship in a most unsportsmanlike manner.

 

[Brooky03]

PC's got nothing to do with it. He's berating his player about lack of sportsmanship in a most unsportsmanlike manner.

Sportsmanship, in the common definition, involves the interactions between opponents. I don't think a coach yelling at his own player has anything to do with sportsmanship

 

[longtimefan]

Sportsmanship, in the common definition, involves the interactions between opponents. I don't think a coach yelling at his own player has anything to do with sportsmanship

He sure as hell was not setting a positive example.

 

[albanycuse]

He sure as hell was not setting a positive example.

Kid had a history of being a punk with his unsportsmenship, im glad the coach ripped him a new one.

 

[jgeorge322]

I disagree. This clapping happens every game. It was relatively tame offense. Coach flew off the handle at what an assistant coach reported to him without any confirmation? Boeheim wouldnt react this way and if he did, id be embarassed. I dont think stallings should get fired or suspended but he was out if line. He didnt even have close to the full story.

 

[jgeorge322]

Sportsmanship, in the common definition, involves the interactions between opponents. I don't think a coach yelling at his own player has anything to do with sportsmanship

Dumb post alert.

 

[Col. Bleep]

Three points:

Good for Coach Stallings to get after the Baldwin.

That language is inappropriate even if most of us have said something like it. No way around that. Stallings lost his temper and was right to apologize.

BUT...Stallings recruited Baldwin. He certainly knew what Baldwin is like. This kind of conduct can't be a surprise to him.
If you want a team that behaves like men instead of punks, then don't recruit punks.

 

[orange79]

Eh. I would never equate a boss to a coach. To me, they are not even remotely close. I have no problem with stallings reaction. None. Nada.

valid point... but coaches are commonly thought of as "father figures"... bosses absolutely are not thought that way.

"father figures" can say things like "I'm going to kill you" or "shut the up"

"bosses" can not.

Jim Boeheim professed his love for Carmelo. Imagine how weird that would have been had JB been Melo's boss.

So while the point you made was valid, it was comparing apples and oranges.

I wasn't equating a boss to a coach. They are not close to being the same. My point was, in these days and times, you can not threaten to kill anyone. You just can't.

 

[longislandcuse]

It's also telling that the kid took full responsibility and went to Twitter to defend his coach.

Big deal over nothing.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

PC's got nothing to do with it. He's berating his player about lack of sportsmanship in a most unsportsmanlike manner.

They are not competitors. Also, this appears to have been the last straw, as in the kid was spoken to about this on multiple ooccasions previously.

 

[longislandcuse]

Maybe I've had crazy coaches because I was used to getting screamed at by my football and basketball coaches for doing stupid stuff. Ill ****ing kill you isn't exactly a death threat lol, people who read into that are ridiculous.

 

[dasher]

I don't think Stallings should have said he was sorry at all. He was 100% right even if his choice of words could have been much better. The reason he didn't need any other confirmation is because he knows this kid. He has talked to him in the past about such things. Good for him.

 

[Brooky03]

Dumb post alert.

dumb post alert? really? lol

 

[dasher]

dumb post alert? really? lol

He was referring to his own post.

 

[Brooky03]

He was referring to his own post.

That thought crossed my mind initially, but apparently he was in fact saying that my post was dumb and that I'm a moron by extension.

 

[jgeorge322]

Oh nice, that's the game we're playing. I'm glad you kept it mature and stated your point so thoughtfully.

What do you mean. I didnt threaten to kill you or lash out at you on national tv. Even if i did, its still good sportsmanship.

 

[Brooky03]

What do you mean. I didnt threaten to kill you or lash out at you on national tv. Even if i did, its still good sportsmanship.

It's not good or bad sportsmanship. Sportsmanship is irrelevant to the situation.


edit: It's irrelevant as far as the coach's comments are concerned. It's relevant as far as the player's actions towards the opponent are concerned.

 

[ROCuse]

I don't think screaming at your player that you are going to fvcking kill him on national television is appropriate AT ALL. Save that for the locker room.

Anyone else think the Tennessee assistant or video coordinator or whatever he was completely overstepped his boundaries?