First, football and many coaches are high intensity, it's a given. It is obvious there is a history here with the sports reporter and his prior reports/tweets so I think the really tame tweet was just an excuse to read the riot act to the sports reporter. I'm sure someone was monitoring the guy's tweets in order to tattle-tale on this sports reporter because of the past "history". Coach should have talked to sports reporter or had someone else talk to reporter about his dissatisfaction of his team's coverage obviously long before it escalated to the threat. And maybe the coach did and the sports reporter continued in the manner that the coach was dissatisfied with, who knows? Should the coach have gotten in the man's face? Maybe not but sometimes you just have to call a man out when diplomacy (and I don't know if it was attempted by the coach or not) just doesn't work.

 

You don't want to help embarrass a kid, they're pretty good at doing it on their own. I guess where folks have a problem and especially parents of players is when they are "called out" in the media as having done something wrong. Hey, welcome to the real world son. However, if this sports reporter always goes over the top at criticizing a kid's play, then that is a problem. Just my two cents.

 

I can't speak to how this reporter covers the local teams there. But it sounds like he's doing play-by-play tweets, which is essentially the same thing as what the local radio broadcast crew is doing. Is the radio guy supposed to not announce when the QB throws an INT or fumbles it?

I don't know about where you're at' date=' but everywhere I go to games, parents come out on the field afterward and listen to the coach's postgame speech, then gather up with their kids on the field.[/quote']

 

Hate it

Hate it

 

They don't do that in NoKy?

They don't do that in NoKy?

Don't do it in NEKY.

Don't do it in NEKY.

 

Hmmm … sounds like a thread topic.

I can't speak to how this reporter covers the local teams there. But it sounds like he's doing play-by-play tweets, which is essentially the same thing as what the local radio broadcast crew is doing. Is the radio guy supposed to not announce when the QB throws an INT or fumbles it?

 

Well, I couldn't really figure out if the guy was just there for a story to be published later and he was tweeting out opinions or what. I still say there was bad blood between reporter and coach prior to this incident over past reports or active tweets. Don't think the sports reporter was doing radio.

Well, I couldn't really figure out if the guy was just there for a story to be published later and he was tweeting out opinions or what. I still say there was bad blood between reporter and coach prior to this incident over past reports or active tweets. Don't think the sports reporter was doing radio.

 

My point is him tweeting is no different than what the radio PBP guy does.

Update: Dad/asst coach was removed from team. Players were banned from talking to the reporter.

Update: Dad/asst coach was removed from team. Players were banned from talking to the reporter.

 

What was given as the reasoning for this? With no more information than what's been provided, it looks like he's being punished for doing his job.

This is why Daddies don't always need to be coaching. The guy should be suspended from coaching for a while.

 

On the other side of the coin (not applicable in this situation, IMHO) some people think it's OK to criticize players and coaches like they are big time coaches in the NCAA or NFL. The only problem with that is you may see the people you criticize at the grocery store.

Another tool coach as I have mentioned in the past. They just keep coming!

What was given as the reasoning for this? With no more information than what's been provided, it looks like he's being punished for doing his job.

 

No reason given. The reporter IS being punished for a simple tweet.

This is why Daddies don't always need to be coaching. The guy should be suspended from coaching for a while.

 

On the other side of the coin (not applicable in this situation, IMHO) some people think it's OK to criticize players and coaches like they are big time coaches in the NCAA or NFL. The only problem with that is you may see the people you criticize at the grocery store.

 

And on the other side of that coin, no evidence has been provided that the reporter in question was actually "criticizing" anybody. He was just calling out what action happened on the field, best we can tell, no different from what a radio guy does in the booth. You can't say "a fumble happened" and not say who fumbled it or who recovered it. That's not criticizing. That's just documenting what happened.