Something I noticed in the comments also, he did not mention his school or coach how could you prove what he was posting about, maybe he was watching a game on tv and it was a bad shot. Not nearly enough there to justify kicking a kid off the team.

The coach overreacted imo. If I were the administration I would call him in for a pow-wow and explain to him that incidents such as this might mean that he might be the next one "kicked off the team". If he wasn't a "friend" to the player on Facebook, then the young man was not addressing the coach with his comments.

If there are rules in place for social networking, I think its a great move!!:dancingpa

 

From what I understand there are no rules banning players from FB.

Depends on what was in place, I know some coaches have a policy on social networking, similar to policies such as i will not use drugs or alcohol. If this was/is in place than the coach has every right to dismiss the player. People need to realize that yes we have freedom of speech but only until it offends someone. If no policy is in place and it offended the coach, yes he went to the extreme there and could have handled it differently but we don't know the whole situation.

 

Regardless people need to watch what they post on these sites. I read a story a while back that a lady lost her job because of a post about her employer on facebook. Recruiting personel search these sites when looking at job applicants. Some college sports teams have their student athletes block their page all together making it to where only the athete can add their friends and can't be found when searched for. Facebook has become a major issue with these types of stories, and people need to realize that if they can't say what's bothering them to that particular person they probably shouldn't post it for the world to see because it will eventually get back to them, and there are reprecussions for their actions.

Can we get the players name or the school????????

Can we get the players name or the school????????

 

Irrelevant since I just thought the reason for the dismissal was interesting.

 

May be more to it so I don't want to put a coach out there for something that is only half-true.

Story going around that a high school player was kicked off of the team after the coach read some of his Facebook posts regarding basketball.

 

Posts were something like :

 

"I guess an open shot is a bad shot"

 

"I guess it would be nice to go home and play guitar with my friends for once"

 

Coach took it as criticism and supposedly kicked the kid off of the team.

 

Thoughts?

 

I doubt that this is the full story.

 

Regardless, here is where we are as far as kids and social media: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/12/08/14collegeadmit.h31.html?tkn=SQMFlkFNBWUCI9KxU762m2wvRWzxuAIzhlwn&cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS1

 

Actions have consequences.

Depends on what was in place, I know some coaches have a policy on social networking, similar to policies such as i will not use drugs or alcohol. If this was/is in place than the coach has every right to dismiss the player. People need to realize that yes we have freedom of speech but only until it offends someone. If no policy is in place and it offended the coach, yes he went to the extreme there and could have handled it differently but we don't know the whole situation.

 

Regardless people need to watch what they post on these sites. I read a story a while back that a lady lost her job because of a post about her employer on facebook. Recruiting personel search these sites when looking at job applicants. Some college sports teams have their student athletes block their page all together making it to where only the athete can add their friends and can't be found when searched for. Facebook has become a major issue with these types of stories, and people need to realize that if they can't say what's bothering them to that particular person they probably shouldn't post it for the world to see because it will eventually get back to them, and there are reprecussions for their actions.

 

Actually, we have freedom of speech EVEN if it offends someone (see the Westboro Baptist "Church" for examples.) However, that does not mean freedom from consequences. I do agree with the rest of your post. :thumb:

Depends on what was in place, I know some coaches have a policy on social networking, .

 

I have never heard of this. What is the policy of the coaches you know?

Again, taking it as just what Clyde posted and assuming there is nothing else to the issue. The coach needs to worry more about coaching his team and not worry about his insecurity to exert his authority off of the court.

 

BUT, I am guessing there may be more to this between this coach and player.

I have never heard of this. What is the policy of the coaches you know?

Only ones I have heard of are in college, apples and oranges.

Policy on social networking something along the lines of don't post anything negative about the team, don't respond to anything negative about the team, and don't give up any information about the team. Not word for word the policy but along those lines. Basically states, that if you have an issue with something that involves the team talk to the coach/coaches everything should be handled in house. and that is a high school coach.

Based on what was posted on here, no way do you.remove him based on this alone.

 

It would be a great opportunity for the coach to teach the young man on how to handle tough situations. Tell the.young man that part of being a man is handling things in a mature way. Tell the young man if he is frustrated or confused about anything regarding the team that the right thing to do is come to the coach and discuss them with him first.

 

I all also say that some coaches do not want the players to sit down and discuss anything and they should never question the coach even in a private meeting. Those type of coaches IMO do not prepare kids for off the court.

There has to be more to the story than what happened on Facebook. The kid knew what he was doing. Saying it on Facebook is akin to saying it to the coach's face. If the kid said it to his face should be be allowed a spot on the team? I say no. Once one kid shows disrespect torwards the coach then the rest of the team will follow. Is that what we teach our kids now? That you can disrespect authority figures and have a sit down and solve it? I am in a union but if I go on Facebook and talk crap on the plant manager I will be fired. Quickly.

 

Exactly what I was going to say. Maybe the coach could have handled it differently, but who knows that he didn't? Good life lesson for the kid, we baby kids too much today IMO.

Also I'd be shocked if there was not more to the story.