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“Bosses under stress combined with targets who are weak and vulnerable and can’t fight back.”

In a 2015 article with the amusing title Is the Era of Abusive College Coaches Finally Coming to an End? a Sports Illustrated writer totes up the butcher’s bill, to which we have most recently added University of Maryland football player Jordan McNair. “Our [false] conviction that hostility works is encouraged by a culture that makes legendary figures of [Bob] Knight and Steve Jobs,” says the writer, who goes to great lengths to argue that you catch more flies with honey. Maybe he should have held tight until the results of the last presidential election.

Meanwhile, they’re beating the shit out of high school football players too.

[P]ractices [at Grayson High School in Georgia] featured “full-force hitting in shorts.” Although no players were injured this year before the [team walkout over sadistic coaching], they were “concerned for their health heading into the season.”

One parent explained … that concerns have been raised about [the coach] since he took over the program in 2017 because of “multiple ambulance trips for heat-related issues” as well as broken bones and body cramps suffered during practices.

Once the coach is done with you, there’s avoiding anal rape by your teammates. (I’ve linked you to only the latest anal rape story. Google anal rape football and go to town.)

If you survive all that, it’s off to a homicidal fraternity in that big state school that recruited you. And get ready for your new best friend, Richie Incognito!

Concussions? Ha. Concussions are nothing.

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Oh. The whole does it work or doesn’t it controversy? Way off-point. Look closely, please. Some coaches love violence for itself, the way most human beings do. Look at the game to which coaches devote their lives.

Most human beings won’t kick or kill other people the way some coaches do; they’ll go to violent movies and football games and watch violent porn, etc. Life won’t afford them the opportunity to physically (and psychologically) brutalize actual human beings. Coaches get that opportunity.

Margaret Soltan, August 19, 2018 10:35AM
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5 Responses to ““Bosses under stress combined with targets who are weak and vulnerable and can’t fight back.””

  1. Judy Hooper Says:

    Thought this might interest you and your followers:

    Article from The Guardian shows an even bigger problem.
    http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/aug/19/college-football-deaths-offseason-workouts

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Judy: MANY thanks for sending that link. I’m reading the article now. Best – UD

  3. charlie Says:

    So most human beings crave violence,eh? Wonder what women who’ve been raped think of that? Given the linked study, the perps can make the claim she was asking for it, and have science backing their claim. Why should unis do anything about sexual assault, given that women inherently want to get roughed up? Actually, it would explain a lot of what’s going on….

  4. Margaret Soltan Says:

    charlie: No – human animals have a lot of propensity toward violence – even enjoyment of violence – wired into them. This says nothing about whether anyone should tolerate their giving in to it.

  5. charlie Says:

    UD, no one should tolerate violence, nor submit to it. But given how some people justify rape by claiming that some women deserved it simply by being a woman at the wrong place, at the wrong time, then some idiot will claim that men are hard wired to rape. Given what I’ve read regarding how some unis handle sexual assault/rape cases, it seems that it may be a oreveling sentiment

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