What Are We Teaching Our Student-Athletes?
Recently, one of the communities in our area went through some changes in their respective high school basketball programs. The boy’s varsity basketball program had four members of the team quit after having completed just eight games of a 20 game season.
A few days after that, the junior varsity girls coach quit as well.
Both teams had people quit for different reasons, but what really bothers me is that the parents of these student-athletes allowed this type of behavior to happen.
First off all, let me say that I do not condone the fact that the junior varsity coach quit on his players in mid-season. In fact, I think making a commitment to a team and keeping that commitment is a true sign of one’s character. Although after hearing the following explanation from the coach, I have to say that I can understand the coach’s reasoning for making his decision.
After a recent game, the coach was giving a post game talk to the team when one of the player’s parents came into the locker-roo...