If they were just sports programs – and not also universities – there wouldn’t be any problem here. You’ve got a certain sort of conduct – verbally violent… sometimes physically violent… – but that’s the norm, that’s how you motivate the little buggers. That’s how you make them angry motherfuckers like you so they want to kill the opposing team. But there’s this teeny vestigial sense at some American universities that qua university they shouldn’t be seen countenancing this sort of thing – that the ethos of a university…
I mean… not that the university itself will ever interfere with its coaches! Noho. But when coaches get so vile that large numbers of players leave the school rather than endure them… Or – God forbid – when players or coaching assistants go public with their complaints… Well then! Ahem! Yes! We’re a university, not a BDSM club (in all of these cases, including the latest one at in-some-obscure-and-actually-no-longer-discernable-way-Jesuit Georgetown University, there are multiple masochists on the team ready to defend their sadist)… We’ve got standards of behavior here…