When I was growing up and playing sports, the Coach had as much authority over the kids as the parents when it came to that particular team. And my parents were all for it. If the Coach put down a rule, I had to abide by it to play and my parents supported the Coach 100%. But that's how it was back then and the players all knew it.

When I was growing up and playing sports, the Coach had as much authority over the kids as the parents when it came to that particular team. And my parents were all for it. If the Coach put down a rule, I had to abide by it to play and my parents supported the Coach 100%. But that's how it was back then and the players all knew it.

Too many kids today experience discipline for the first time in their lives from their coaches. Parents more concerned about being buds, or worse, not being bothered. Look at some of the well known 9th Region team drama that has happened this year (and it happens every year in every region). Greatly suspect that there was a vacuum of discipline somewhere and this misunderstood exercise of "freedom of speech". Coaches should be allowed to set the rules and if you don't want to abide, you have the freedom to not participate.

Agree with the last 3 posts

Being arrested doesn't mean conviction and only convictions count so those kids statements that saw the kid arrested become irrelevant. And that means no coach or school official can hand out any punishment. End of the story.

 

Not true....coaches can hand out whatever punishment they deem appropriate for the team offense....that, my friend, is the end of the story

If you get HS kids to admit to drinking or being arrested then go for it. But I'm willing to bet that a kid is not going to voluntarily offer information to which it will be used to dole out punishment to them, plus if they are a minor and you are asking questions about items that happened off school grounds you better damn well make sure that the kid has representation such as a guardian, parent, etc while you ask those questions or you will be the one in trouble. Now that is truly the end of the story.

 

I don't know what school or program you are familiar with but some of the most credible and winning programs in the state subscribe to morals clauses for their players.

 

When you put a team in the locker room and ask the entire team if anyone was, for example, drinking at a party, and you have a morals clause....if that team is worth anything, it will come out. It will come out because the team cares more about the whole than the individual....and any individual that goes against the team, is ONLY OUT for themselves.

 

Kids have to be held accountable both in and out of school when they represent a school...period.

 

A coach doesn't need "representation" and a kid doesn't need "representation" to be disciplined...you just need a coach who will discipline....end of story...