Coach told players to 'check their manhood'

 

LEEDS, Maine (AP) - A high school basketball coach was fired after telling his players at halftime to reach into their pants to "check their manhood," administrators said.

 

Leavitt Area High School Principal Patrick Hartnett said coach Mike Remillard told the varsity boys Jan. 23 that "tonight's game was about who had the biggest (male genitalia) in town."

"He then required his players to all stand up and put their hands down their pants and check their manhood," Hartnett said in the statement, which was read to school board members Thursday by Superintendent Thomas J. Hanson a day after the coach was dismissed.

 

All but one player followed the coach's instructions, Hartnett said. The team won the game.

 

Remillard, who was in his fourth season as varsity coach, called the pep talk "normal locker room banter from Fort Kent, Maine, to San Diego, California," but said he still should not have done it.

 

"Was that tactic appropriate? No. And I'm paying the price for it," Remillard said.

Well.

Well, Well that's a deep hole in the ground!

If he would have stopped at saying they needed to check their manhood, OK.

 

Making them stand up and actually check tells me the guy probably needs to step away.

Often times, locker room comments....are meant to stay in there. I've heard much worse. Sometimes the motivation ideas of coaches, lack judgment.

Often times, locker room comments....are meant to stay in there. I've heard much worse. Sometimes the motivation ideas of coaches, lack judgment.

Like the ol' saying goes, "What happens in the locker room, stays in the locker room."

But what's said in a locker room is always told to mommy's and daddy's. This is merely the coaches fault. Don't say something in a locker room if you don't want it repeated. Those "mommy's and daddy's" will tell others what's said, trust. This "manhood" thing is just weird.

But what's said in a locker room is always told to mommy's and daddy's. This is merely the coaches fault. Don't say something in a locker room if you don't want it repeated. Those "mommy's and daddy's" will tell others what's said, trust.

I have to say that this is true. :thumb:

You don't have to grab your cahoonas to play with cahoonas...

You don't have to grab your cahoonas to play with cahoonas...

:laugh: Well said.

I guess his team had the largest genitallia, must have been like those bass tournaments.

As long as everyone grabs there own and don't pull it out. It don't bother me.

Like the ol' saying goes, "What happens in the locker room, stays in the locker room."

 

 

Can i get an AMEN !!!!!!!!!!!

We need to be careful with the coloful metaphors being used in this thread.

Often times, locker room comments....are meant to stay in there. I've heard much worse. Sometimes the motivation ideas of coaches, lack judgment.

 

I have reads through this thread and this was probably the most accurate comment. Yes, having both played and coached I think that what is said in the locker room should stay, but that doesn't mean anything goes