ROFLMAO he got his ass kicked :rotf2:

Dad Hurt In Fight With Youth Coach - Boston News Story - WCVB Boston (http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/21335356/detail.html)

he deserves every day he gets in JAIL

plus i hope the father sues him and takes everything he owns

The kid should be running laps. You don't want your kid running laps, make sure he's to practice on time.

I volunteered at Mansfield high school to teach an after-school music program. Kids showed up more than 30 minutes late, they sat and watched. These people are there to be babysitters. They are there to do a job. A parent that brings their kid to practice late needs to accept that there are consequences. What kind of example is it for the other kids in the group to have a teammate show up late with no ramifications? It's Football practice, not happy skipping through a field practice.

The Coach shouldn't be the only one charged. Unless police showed up on scene and witnesses state that the coach initiated the physical altercation, they should both be treated equally.

The only reason the dad went to the cops is because he tried to play Mr. Tough Guy and it resulted in him getting his ass handed to him.

All for having to run laps...... Both of them are stupid, to have let it go that far.

How many times in football did you have to run laps? I'm guessing a lot, like everyone else. Chances are the coach is having him run laps, not only to punish him for being late, but also because everyone else is in the middle of running plays or drills, so he is having the kid run for a few minutes till he can fit the kid back into practice.

I remember when the coach ran out of stuff for us to do, it was always "run laps". I'm sure it was not that big of deal for the kid. If he doesn't wanna run laps, he shouldn't be playing football. I wonder, if everyone posted the estimated number of laps we had to run in football practice, what would be the average? I'm guessing several hundred per season.

But as adults they definitely should not have let is escalate that far, especially in front of the kids. I feel sorry for the kid, "haha your dad got beat up by the coach" is all he will hear for a while.

Damn!!! Look out the sky is falling!

We pretty much agree on this and we typed it at the same time.......

My coach would have had my dad running laps with me if he pulled anything like that.

Damn!!! Look out the sky is falling!

We pretty much agree on this and we typed it at the same time.......

I'm scared.

Someone wrote checks with his mouth another part of his body couldn't cover. And I bet after watching him on the news conference that the hittee was lying about his agressiveness/or as he said "lack of". Couldn't remember how many times he was punch but never said he was knocked out.

The farther should not have gotten in the coaches face, it underminds his authority, but the coach should have never laid a hand on the farther. all he had to say is if you don't like it take your kid home and don't come back and walk away. If the farther didn't leave him alone call the cops. they are both wrong

I just heard on the news it was one punch and he knocked the farther out.

Damn!!! Look out the sky is falling!

We pretty much agree on this and we typed it at the same time......

I'm scared.

:gu: :love:

:hihi:

The father should have run the laps with his son,taught him a life lesson. He called the coach a fat ass and then gets his ass handed to him.
My son skates until he pukes if he's late for practice. He's not late to often

I saw the father interviewed... all of a sudden, I feel sympathy for the coach... guy comes across as an asshat.... feel bad for the kid.. he will be hearing it for the rest of his school days.. coach walked dad away from everybody, and the guy only remembers the coaches coat coming off... after he called the coach a fat bastard....

laps... it's what ya do... late to practise.... run yer ass...

never forget... my son's HS coach... kid that was habitually late... talk about a way to solve stuff... one day... the kid comes on the field 15 minutes late...coach calls all the guys in off their drills... tells the late kid to sit down, and get comfortable in the middle off the field... here is some water... then... the rest of practise...everybody else run laps.... life was not good for that kid for a while... i happened to be there... and it was actually fun watching him squirm out there in the field... I doubt he'll ever be late for anything else the rest of his life....

i am very happy i don't have kids.

Coaches SUCK period.

i am very happy i don't have kids.

Coaches SUCK period.

Wrong Raven, for the most part.

Coaches SUCK period.


Coaches are there to teach kids....not only a sport but important life lessons.

things like how to work w/ others, be on time, Teamwork....and most importantly, if everybody does what they are supposed to....the results are usually good.

The big issue is the parents that hope to retire off their 13 year old son's professional baseball career because little johnnny could throw 40 mph when he was 9.

priorities are skewed now-a-days.

I see it in scouts all the time...here is a program that focuses on self-reliance, Organization and Leadership....and I gotta plan around the Soccer Schedule. :huh:

the purpose is to have fun
it's supposed to be a game after all
not a professional sports competition

to many times i see both the parents and the coaches
acting like or with Bill Bellichick seriousness and the kids are
just treated like crap while the adults scream obscenities
at one another.

while i agree with some of the feedback
to my comment of disatisfaction

some of these people are just sickening to me

i have met so many people that are experts at
SPORTS and the sports trivia but are absolutely clueless
on how to use a shovel without breaking the handle
couldn't chop a log in half if their life depended on it
can't rake leaves without having to bend over to pick them up
and those kind of things that i personally think are every bit as valuable.
So -> don't mind me... i have no kids so i can't relate.

There's A-Holes everywhere...not just coaches. And I do mean Everywhere.

there are also Great People everywhere...including coaches.

And Raven, I agree, there isn't much emphasis put on life skills anymore.

Its the Mom-ification of America :hihi:

As a youth travel softball coach for 10 years, I have always had the same rule when a player is late, run a lap, no big deal as it actually becomes something the coach parent and player get a laugh out of. The coach should have told the dad to take his kid and go home if he didn't like it.

Who knows, maybe this kid is late all the time? Did the coach tell the parents and kids of this policy at the start of the season? Is the coach running a boot camp for young kids? No fun = No team.

Some facts are missing here.

There's A-Holes everywhere...not just coaches. And I do mean Everywhere.

there are also Great People everywhere...including coaches.

And Raven, I agree, there isn't much emphasis put on life skills anymore.

:hihi:

many of them A-holes drive red cars i've found.... cars not trucks !
they will cut you off /slam on there brakes in front of you or generally drive like #^&#^&#^&#^&s. :uhuh:

i guess in my life experience i met up with "one to many"
coaches that were of the A-hole variety rather than the
inspirational best friend mentor variety so that i learned more
life skills and nature activities as a result (i'm now jaded)and basically...........
gave the Bird finger to most team sports and chose the austere
and solitary nature experience as my favorite pastime.

many of them A-holes drive red cars i've found.... cars not trucks !
they will cut you off /slam on there brakes in front of you or generally drive like #^&#^&#^&#^&s. :uhuh:

i guess in my life experience i met up with "one to many"
coaches that were of the A-hole variety rather than the
inspirational best friend mentor variety so that i learned more
life skills and nature activities as a result (i'm now jaded)and basically...........
gave the Bird finger to most team sports and chose the austere
and solitary nature experience as my favorite pastime.

Admit it, somewhere there is a coach driving a red car that must have made you run a million laps.....:pats:

thought sports was suppose to be fun.

Thats a good one but not as good as Tony C's was . That was the worst I ever saw

Admit it, somewhere there is a coach driving a red car that must have made you run a million laps.....:pats:

but i've driven across country ten times and thats how i learned
about the RED car phenomenon.

but i will admit....that i was made to run way to many laps in high school and P.E. was always first period so for the rest of the day your clothes were destroyed by either perspiration or steam from the locker room and sticking to you! No matter how much i complained it was always "tough luck pal".

So i devised a plan to be last in LINE each time and when the timing was right i would simply dash into the bushes and head for my secret locker hidden deep in the woods with all my fishing gear waiting for me. Screw them ! I never got caught!

When I played HS football you ran laps every day. If he was late , he probably just had to make up the laps they had to run to start practice and warm up. In fact asking the kid to start right in sprinting on plays would be pretty stupid until he had a chnace to run some laps and stretch and warm up. There is no way to justify the father sticking his nose into how the coach handled lateness or anything in the practice. As a paraent you may decide the coach is a psycho and not let you kid play anymore but you would never stick your nose into how tyhe practice was run.

Anyway , parents and coaches should not fight with eachother. Its just another case of people thinking something like HS football is the most important thing in the world.

As far as numbers of laps we used to run I have no idea. It had to total a bazillion over the years. If you dropped a ball you ran laps. If the offense got past the D in the scrimmages you ran laps. If the offense didn't get by the D they ran laps. If you did something that would have resulted in detention and the football coach had to get you out so you would make practice you paid it back with a million laps. Everything and anything got you laps.I know after every practice we did wind sprints and backwards running and crabbing until everyone was ready to drop. It was actually a relief to start the miles of simple lap running which was the last thing we did so the end was in site!! If you hurt a shoulder or something on the upper body where you couldn't practice , you used to just run laps to break up the boredom and in fact it was easier than just standing around in the cold. Laps seemed punitive but in fact they were a way to make sure you never got tired while playing a game.

Anyway , as was said , a player running laps in football is such a trivial everyday thing its hard to believe it came to blows between the parent and the coach. Its not unusual though. I can remember playing in a little league baseball game where two coaches on the same team started nailing eachother over one of their sons not getting playing time. Imagine fighting over a baseball game between 8 year olds!! Its a wacky world!

One of the guys on our crew knows the coach. According to him the hittee was the aggressor who persued it. A lot of taunting and rediculing by the hittee. The coach warned him to stop or he would teach him a lesson. Well the hittee didn't believe the coach and said lets go, thinking he would have the upper hand......

By looking at the pic I'd bet the hittee will keep him mouth shut in the future. I feel bad for the coach.