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CU @ Arizona 12/5 - 5PM MT - FS1

cu2x said:
Since none of these posts relate to the topic, I'll add this in: The Buffs need to recruit this guy. Motor always running, not afraid to hit:

Texas high school football player escorted out by police after tackling ref - SBNation.com
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Every single one of us has wanted to do that at some point. Be it a boss, referee, our parents, whatever. The vast majority of us have the self control to avoid doing it. That kid will never, ever play a down of football again. Ever.
 
Not Sure said:
Every single one of us has wanted to do that at some point. Be it a boss, referee, our parents, whatever. The vast majority of us have the self control to avoid doing it. That kid will never, ever play a down of football again. Ever.
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Hopefully that isn’t true because he is just a kid. He does have some work to do for sure.
 
SBP said:
Hopefully that isn’t true because he is just a kid. He does have some work to do for sure.
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“He is just a kid” is a bull**** excuse. Anybody over the age of 8 knows what he did is wrong and has the self control to keep from doing it. I’m not advocating for him to have a ruined life. He will have plenty of opportunities to make a success of himself. It just won’t be on a football field.
 
Not Sure said:
“He is just a kid” is a bull**** excuse. Anybody over the age of 8 knows what he did is wrong and has the self control to keep from doing it. I’m not advocating for him to have a ruined life. He will have plenty of opportunities to make a success of himself. It just won’t be on a football field.
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Ray Lewis, Greg Hardy, and Tyreek Hill (just off the top of my head) played football after way worse stuff than that. Not saying it is right or wrong but if the kid has enough talent he'll play again.
 
Not Sure said:
“He is just a kid” is a bull**** excuse. Anybody over the age of 8 knows what he did is wrong and has the self control to keep from doing it. I’m not advocating for him to have a ruined life. He will have plenty of opportunities to make a success of himself. It just won’t be on a football field.
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Nope, this is educational athletics. The kid needs to learn he lesson, and the best way to do that is on the football field. No doubt he should be benched, but kicking him out of football is not an option.

(Spare me the Tom Osborne/Lawrence Phillips comparison because this is a completely different situation)
 
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SBP said:
Nope, this is educational athletics. The kid needs to learn he lesson, and the best way to do that is on the football field. No doubt he should be benched, but kicking him out of football is not an option.

(Spare me the Tom Osborne/Lawrence Phillips comparison because this is a completely different situation)
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You and I disagree on this. As far as I’m concerned, kicking him off the football team is not only an option, it’s the only option. Our actions have consequences. Not just for him, but for the next kid who gets a crazy idea in his head to pull a stunt like that. If all that happens to him is he gets benched, how does that dissuade somebody else from doing the same thing? Getting benched is a pretty weak punishment.
 
Not Sure said:
You and I disagree on this. As far as I’m concerned, kicking him off the football team is not only an option, it’s the only option. Our actions have consequences. Not just for him, but for the next kid who gets a crazy idea in his head to pull a stunt like that. If all that happens to him is he gets benched, how does that dissuade somebody else from doing the same thing? Getting benched is a pretty weak punishment.
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After years of coaching high school kids, I believe in the power of participation. The coach has more influence than any person in his life right now. It is crucial that he uses that power to change the kid. I’m not talking about a one game suspension, I’m talking serious punishment, like benching him the rest of the season, among a multitude of other activities to teach him that his behavior was unacceptable.
That punishment cannot be banishment or you completely lose the opportunity to reform him.
I will be the first to say that, given the lack of self control that this kid has, the effort will probably fail, but it is an effort that must be undertaken.
When you sign up to coach HS sports, you sign up to make kids better in every way possible.
 
Darth Snow said:
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An 0-3 team being discussed as better than a 3-0 team is a bigbang level take.

Listening to the first few minutes of that podcast and they say "UCLA is terrible"... UCLA is terrible but beat Arizona by 3 scores, and somehow Colorado, who pasted UCLA is worse than Arizona?

God dammit, why am I getting sucked into this

Edit: Why did you guys delete the Tweet?
 
SBP said:
After years of coaching high school kids, I believe in the power of participation. The coach has more influence than any person in his life right now. It is crucial that he uses that power to change the kid. I’m not talking about a one game suspension, I’m talking serious punishment, like benching him the rest of the season, among a multitude of other activities to teach him that his behavior was unacceptable.
That punishment cannot be banishment or you completely lose the opportunity to reform him.
I will be the first to say that, given the lack of self control that this kid has, the effort will probably fail, but it is an effort that must be undertaken.
When you sign up to coach HS sports, you sign up to make kids better in every way possible.
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He's a kid. It is a pretty epic screw up. Actually criminal behavior, but if it is an isloated incident, punish, teach and hope he figures it out.
 
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