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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!
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