Americus-Sumter coach fired over practice incident

Wow, no room for mistakes these days…one and done!!

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Fired for kicking a player in the ass? Jeez…….I kept my job for slapping the beejezus out of some mouthy brat back in 2007……and it straightened his attitude out to where he became one helluva player, to boot.

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The problem is that these kids aren’t disciplined at home so they, including their parents, don’t think they should be disciplined anywhere else. I work in athletics, and at the school I work at their is a parent that watches football practice and talks about the coaches cussing. He talks about how they don’t need to cuss and that they are teaching the kids how to cuss, nevermind the fact that the parent cusses all the time himself. His son actually was in my room one day and said a cuss word, I stopped him and his response was that the coaches did it. I asked him does that mean he has to cuss? I then asked him how often has he heard them cuss inside the school building, the answer was none. I then told him sometimes in the heat of things a cuss word may come out, it shouldn’t but it may, but that doesn’t mean you should just walk around cussing all the time.

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Tucker Dad……..I have to admit that I’m not and never was crazy about being kicked or seeing anyone else kicked. But it happened on occasion. Smacking up side the head while wearing the helmet, grabbing the face mask or shoulder pads, I have no problem with. There is something else that needs to be brought to the forefront, in some cultures/neighborhoods, kicking is an absolute NO, NO! If you are from one of those cultures/neighborhoods, if you get kicked there’s a fight coming! I’m sure the coach meant no harm. Again, coaches need to remember, the old days are gone.You’d better be careful where you put your foot!

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To Ed Pilcher: Hopefully the statute of limitations hasn’t run out, maybe someone will be smart enough to file a criminal complaint against you. Whether you know it or not your information to AJC can be traced for your identification.

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Sounds like they were just looking for a reason and he gave it to them. But it’s absolutely true that kids in today’s society don’t know what discipline (self or otherwise) is when they get it. They wanna bow up because you dissed them. Teachers/administrators/DJJ have their hands tied because the kids know there isn’t much they can do to them. In my day if you bowed up at a teacher or a coach you’d be picking yourself up off the floor…and if kids now had that reality they would be a lot more humble and respectful.

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I say KUDDOS to the recommendation and termination of this coach!!!! The fact is, he has displayed inappropriate behavior for many, many years!! He has “resigned” just before getting fired from more than one school district.
For all of you who feel that is appropriate to degrade, humiliate, and physically assault a student….whether in the classroom or on the football field needs to take a step back and realize that this is NOT OKAY!!! The reason that kids these days do not show much respect is because they don’t have adults who model this to them!!!!
I get so tired of coaches and educators doing things that are inappropriate and then it either gets swept under the rug or they give these people the option to “resign” so that it won’t make their record look bad. He needed to get fired!!!

Way to go Americus!!!

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Today’s coaches basically only have one way to discipline the players and that is running after practice, and my son’s team, some players would rather quit than run and it has happened in the past that they just quit the team.

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Teachers are just like cops now-the thugs are running all over them and the liberal criminal coddling idiots are onhe side if the punk thugs!

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good thing there is still old school training in the armed forces .. oh wait

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Could be worse……Could be the Sandusky Shower treatment…..

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My parents would both be in jail based on todays method of parenting. Thank god for me they did not spare the rod.

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Isn’t football all about assaulting your opponent. I don not condon kicking someone in the butt, BUT I understand…..
just sayin

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I got out of teaching because the students did not have the self control to act appropriately in public. I figured let them just stay dumb and self centered. It will catch up with them in life and they will either end up in prison on working the window at a fast food restaurant.

It is the parents’ responsibility to raise them with values and it was my job to teach them the academics to grow in life. You cannot teach academics to students who do not have the self control to sit still and pay attention to a teacher. That is a direct result of the parenting that they have received.

So let them suffer through the rest of their life. Rather them than me.

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S. Thomas Coleman-

I bet you still wet the bed……..

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and we wonder why so many people are ‘okay’ with the mediocre performance of our governments, and except the fact that all of our kids are going to grow up to be a bunch of panzy-@$$ momma’s boys….

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I truly do understand that times have changed – but I can’t help but feel a little sorry that they have. Imagine how Bear Bryant would have been received when early in his career he had want amounted to torture camps. And I can remember two a day practices – decades ago – when someone had to pick you up from the last practice of the day and, at least for me, I’d lie on the back seat of the car on the way home. Probably lives are saved these days and it’s impossible to not be happy about that. But it really was once part of a ritual that – if it didn’t kill you – did shape you in good and important ways.

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I understand why the parents may be very upset,but this is football and unless the coach lost his shoe due to the intensity of the kick, the coach should have been suspended without pay for his actions.

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How’s this for discipline? The young “lady” in this video hit and spit on the driver and look what happened next….

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A lot of these kids these days would not have lasted on the field when I played! Our Coaches was crazy!! It wasnt a such thing as talking back to the coaches or cussing out Coaches. My Coach would slam you on your head for talking back. The discipine I got from my Coaches made me a better man. Some of you on here act like you dont remember when the teacher could kick your butt for acting up in class. Its no different than that to me. These kids these days are bad af!! I coach and I let the parents know, That I dont allow talking back & cursing on my field. I grabbed a kid by his cage &shook him up just last week. My parents are a lot of single moms. They love the discipline that I give the kids. They approve with no problems.. That kid probably needed to be kicked in his butt!!

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I think most of the bet wetters on this blog have never worn a jock.

If they were on their high school team…they never played a down.

If you can’t take a kick in the back side how are you going to take a blind side hit from a linebacker?

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The boy probably needed a hug.

The coach should have merely hugged the player and ask him to try harder.

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Obviously from reading some of the comments on this thread made by mooks who should have been born sterile, we can see why some parents raise children who turn into serial killers.

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Sumter County School System (SCSS) has had some problems that are coming to a point. The District Attorney of Sumter County had a investigative grand jury look into problems with the school board and found wide spread illegal activity concerning the running of the board. SACS found problems with the management of the school board. The Board fired a major law firm in Atlanta that is mostly or all white to hire an almost unknown local black attorney. As required by a federal civil rights case, SCSS Board has to submit their redistricting to the DOJ. DOJ approved the redistricting plan which saved money by aligning the school districts with the county commission. The new board withdrew the plan last minute to the DOJ telling them they were going to submit another plan they would draw up. A federal judge has suspended all elections to the school board with a majority of the current board members were to be in an election in November. It now looks like these board members will have a special election sometime in 2013. They fired their black Superintendent hired by a majority white board while the majority black board just hired an internal employee as superintendent (He is white).

In a nutshell, Two medical doctors are engaged in a feud dealing with the school system. A black medical doctor that runs the local NAACP chapter was having secret “board meetings” with the majority black board which the white board members (as they should) had a problem with since it is illegal. The white medical doctor is on the school board and has become the focus of the energy concerning alleged racism. To add to the problems, white flight in the schools is an ongoing problem with a large private school originally started because whites did not want their kids to go to segregated schools and another neighboring county school system having a more racially balanced schools. Another neighboring school system close by had as widespread cheating as Atlanta schools and is also majority black. The “problem” is that in a smaller community more people know something that was not reported really in Atlanta. The vast majority of the educators caught cheating were black so in south Georgia it became more of a racial issue than in Atlanta. White’s are trying to take down the black man or black woman. A big thought in this South Georgia community is that white’s are just better cheaters where black are not as deceptive so they get caught. Hence, the black’s on the school board in SCSS think the best way to improve the schools is to have black educators while the white board members are thinking the board should hire the best qualified regardless of race. The white football coach was fired for doing things black coaches in the school did with players. White teachers have been fired for doing things far less serious than black teachers. SCSS operates with a double standard with it’s black and white employees because the current board is looking for ways to increase the number of black employees. Black educators can do no wrong when disciplining students and is praised for their abilities while a white coach is fired for kicking a player in the butt on a football field is a double standard.

I wish the AJC would report for the whole state the racial breakdown of the area a school system serves by age groups from the census (i.e. a county or city), the racial breakdown of the students in a school and school system, and the racial breakdown of the educators in that school. You are going to find several majority white counties with majority black schools and almost all black educators in schools. It is not that well educated white’s do not want to teach in those schools rather the schools would rather hire unqualified blacks.

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I’m all for violence as a motivator. I just thinks its unfair that it a one way street. I think the team shoud designate someone to keep the coach straight. Someone large. Mean. Strong. Then call a bad play: Smack the mess out of him. WHACK!!!! I bet he’ll think better than to call a trap play on 3rd and 11 again. These coaches need to be kept in line. Hell, half of them have losing records don’t they? They need more incentive not make stupid mental errors. That sort of motivation that comes from someone bigger than them beating the hell out of them as much as necessary to achieve the desired result.

And I don’t wanna hear none you crying cause the poor wittle coachy got cold clocked. If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen. How can we expect you to be a champion if you are letting an 18 DL beat you into a bloody pulp?

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sztars do not get kicked neither do first teamers and coaches sons. They perform at a high enough level to avoid punishment.

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You people defending this coach apparently lost your senses when (more likey IF) you were hit in the head by your coach.

Any coach kicking my child, slapping my child, or trying to prove how macho he was by jerking my child’s head around by his face mask better be wearing some serious body armor and have the “dream team legal group” to defend his sorry _ss.

Great coaches don’t need to humiliate players or to posture with macho bull_hit.

Great coaches LEAD they don’t threaten.

You people defending him are pathetic.

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I played football and played under a tough coach. I got hit on the helmet and it did not damage me. I can’t really say what is good/bad or indifferent about this instance, because I–like most everyone commenting–was not there.
I will say that I respect my coaches still today and I thank them for the lessons they taught me. As a successful businessman, their lessons to me have permeated to my personal life. I keep the discipline, the responsibility and accountability that was taught to me still today (decades later). I do not know about the racial implications nor of this school system. Often times, though, the school system just wants a reason to dismiss someone and fires them for a single instance of this. In a small town, as Americus is, it is not uncommon.
I hope the coach, the player and all involved learn from this.

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even better–the kid can sue the coach, the high school and the school board for big money to cash in on this kick! They’ll settle for a couple of hundred thousand to keep it quiet. It’s the money train–rolling in!!!

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The Sumter County School Board is a joke. They are under investigation from the state and hopefully they clean house. 6 blacks, 3 whites, every vote 6-3. I cringe paying school taxes and they are talking of building a new high school. They should of kept these schools seperated in the first place!!! Coach Pollock barely kicked this kid in the ass and then had a meeting after practice to tell him he might have a future if he would just practice/play harder. He has been trying to get this punk a scholarship as well. Good luck to you Coach Pollock. I hope you go somewhere that you are appreciated. Glad I will be sending my kids to private school instead of that jungle! @S. Thomas Coleman….sir you are either an idiot or on the SCBOE!

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Maybe we should have longer time outs

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I think what needed to happen with the kid, is what happened. The school board member are composed of 4 females and 3 males. Two of the men didn’t vote, all four women did. The vote was 4 to 1, you do the math. All this came down to four women who don’t know or understand how football works amoung men, or women that play the game. Obviously, the women felt the coach was too hard on the “kid” and deserved to lose his job. Unfortunately, the team is 4-1, with the last three wins coming while the coach was not on the sideline. Which makes it appear that the decision that was made, was the right one when in fact it was not.

If our society continues down the road it is going, and it will, eventually you will have children dictating to parents instead of parents dictating to their child. And when I say parents, I mean single mothers. If you research all of the incidents involving sons and mothers, you will see an ever increasing occurrence of young men disrespecting their mothers. I’ve seen stories of a son raping his own mother, beating his mother because she didn’t bring him Kool-aid, cursing their mother including calling her a “B&%@?” and we think this is going to get better when we fired a coach for disciplining a kid with something as simple as a kick to the behind. This is Ludicrous!!

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I don’t agree with this style of coaching, but I doubt it warranted termination.

Pussification of America.

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At this rate, those that tapped knuckles with a ruler would get life nowadays…

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@ Tim D- One of the board members that abstained is the team’s trainer. The women voted because they are black. Sorry to say that, but they always vote the same. The racist in Sumter County are mostly black. I would like for everyone to read into the actions of this board over the past year. We are not getting any companies looking to invest here and more and more parents are paying out of county tuition or using private schools. Tonight will be the first home game that I wil miss in a long time. At this rate, Americus-Sumter will drop enrollment and be a AA or AAA school. On the other hand they are in the same region with the Albany schools, so I guess they are where they need to be as far as school standards!

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I have heard the story about Coach Pilcher before. …..hmmmmmm, just might have led to him leaving TCC and going to Bainbridge.

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You reap what you sow. All the parents out there that are not bringing up their kids by the word of god will answer for it. Coaches and teachers while role models, are not parents and aren’t responsible for rearing unruly kids!

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@ leon- well by your grammar, you are surely an alumni of our fine school. Good luck watching Monroe and Coach Truitt run over the Panthers tonight. Americus has 10-15 coaches on the sideline. Why in the hell do you need 15 coaches? The quarterback warms up throwing 60 yard passes? WTF? This school and board has lost the right to call what we had a tradition. And @leon- if you take your kids to the game, keep a watch on them and don’t let them run wild. Also, don’t help them with there english assignments.

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I remember at GNMS where the head coach put on a kids helmet and decided to play RB as a full grown built 45 year old to tell a bunch of 12 yrs olds that they better learn to tackle. I guess that was 1992 which we all thought it was no big deal that Coach said you “could not even bust a grape”. If we got our butt kicked or picked up by the face mask you got up and tried to to better next time.

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AmericusDawg: “their” English assignments.

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No your facts people!!! Especailly those who say this wasn’t a racist move!! Don’t just pull the race card when it swings in your favor.

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PREACH IT AMERICUSDAWG!! Coach wasn’t being vicious at all when he kicked the kid, he was simply trying to get the kid to know where he was supposed to be. If you dont live in Americus you simply couldn’t understand how things work around here. AmericusDawg and leon this sure makes Americus look good to the rest of the state huh?

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You’re a dip coleman

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Yeah he had to go. Sorry. This isn’t old days. This is now. If he felt that strongly he could have made him run. Push ups no playing time…anything. Just because he is in a positrion of authority doesn’t give him the right to kick the kid. How would any of you adults feel if your boss kicked you? It would be a fight most likely right? Like I said this is not the old days. This is 2012.

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These comments crack me up. So many ‘tough guys’ talking bout the good ole days. Each trying to out-tough each other (using a keyboard). Hilarious.

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Amen to The Truth. We have feminized our precious little baby boys.

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We agree with everybody, the USA is getting to be whimp USA…a sad ending to a once great country. Thank you osama…

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we have to be so “correct” now can’t say anything derogatory to anyone or touch them anymore that is what the hell is wrong with our society today, as a friend of my sister said once “put yourself out there and you could get your ass whuuped. I am NOT going to stand around and take bull$&t from anyone. if the players can’t play send them home maybe that might get their attention.

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Idiots lead by sissy’s.
Waaaaaa…waaaaaaa…that hurt!

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They should have made him run the steps instead.

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Malia
October 12th, 2012
1:02 pm

How’s this for discipline? The young “lady” in this video hit and spit on the driver and look what happened next….
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Nice uppercut. Must have been a boxer back in the day!

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This makes me laugh! Even as a female athlete I was cussed at, my coach would shake my batting helmet while it was still on my head so hard I thought my head was coming off, throw things at us… ect. What happened to being tough?? We cottle kids these days and it is just sad. This goes back to the everyone is a winner BS. I doubt the coach kicked the child hard enough to lose his job. Give me a break people!

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So if a coach setting a bad example is not good, is Rush Propst in trouble? After the stunt he pulled on the radio of accusing Lowndes County of stealing signs, does this set a bad example for his players & the community?

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My mother kicked me in the butt about 45 years ago. There is a lot less physical pain in my adulthood.

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I was trained in the U.S. Marine Corps by drill instructors that would laugh at your wanna be tough guys commenting here.

Not once did they kick anyone, slap anyone or punch anyone. These drill instructors all did at least three tours in Viet Nam.

None of us questioned them because they did not have to use degrading punishment to earn our respect.

ANY football coach that has to slap or kick a player is either a poor leader or like most of you “tough guys” commenting, a pretend macho tough guy.

This “my coach kicked me and made me a better man” is bull_hit. The drill instructors who made MEN of their recruits did not use this phony tough guy stuff.

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Easy to tell which “posters” have never participated in H,S. sports and certainly haven’t been in military. Coleman has the attitude of a “Wuss”. May have been a cheerleader in college? Trying to intimidate someone who posted by saying they can still be prosecuted and he can track their post origin. Don’t be surprised if you don’t see this post as it doesn’t agree with the 5 or 6 posters who agree with the writer.

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@ Dave from Marietta

Who the heck is Woody Hayes?

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Wow maybe football isn’t his sport. Mommy should check into soccer where the other CHILDREN play

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S Thomas Coleman….. go back to Powder-Puff football.

You are the prime example of the Wussification of the great US of A..

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Folks IT’S A GAME!!!!!!!!!…No kid should be kicked for playing …”A GAME”….it’s just football….it’s not life….what kind of message are you giving to a child that if they don’t obey rules they get physically abused..it’s just wrong on any level…You “Old school” folks…The world has changed!!!!!

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Maybe the poster was right who said Americus and Sumter should never have combined. It is a shame that one of the greatest high school traditions in the state has gone down the tubes. Have not been much of a factor since Soliday had those great teams in the early 2000s.

I recall the 33 game winning streak in the 70s, back to back state titles in 74-75, and the defense that only gave up one touchdown in 1975. 13 shutouts, outscored opponents 400-8, finished second in the nation by one rating service.

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maybe it is time we switched places with the guys and girls. Let the girls play ball for awhile. They are tougher than these wussyfied guys that are playing today.

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Hey, I didn’t say the coach should do it. I just said he shouldn’t be fired for it. Overreaction due to political correctness all day long.

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What a bunch of wusses these players and parents are.Do they still keep score?I had a coach who used to whack you in the helmet when you did good or bad.I loved it.

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what does race have to do with this?

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This is why we have become such a pitiful nation, no toughness anymore. Be a man, earn your place, take your best shot. These days it is give me something I didn’t earn.

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I agree with georgiadawg70!

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I see we have all the perople who weren’t picked to play a sport, did not have the ability to play a sport or were just plain nerds in school on the board tonight. You see folks, its not about being the old days, its about disciplin. You must stay focused on the field or you might get hurt. Yes, we all want to win, build the best program and all that yada, yada. But having an attitude adjustment whilt your in high school helps you when adversity hits you as an adult. Most kids who play a good four years of football turn out to be pretty good people as adults. They know how to deal with allot of junk that gets thrown their way. While many of you weenees complain about every little bump on the road. Some of the kids that are coming up not seem to think everything should be easy and given to them. Hard work and disciplin are not in their vocabulary. And you liberal weenees are assisting them in every way. Wake up. Some of these kids need a kick in the ass to keep them straight. These are the kids that at the mall when they were 2 threw tantrums and you stupid liberal soccer mom’s told them about time outs rather than laying a belt. So when they get to high school sports they think the party is the same. And you liberals just find a way to assist them. Don’t kid yourself, the good coaches still kick ass, they just find a way around getting caught. So please weenee people. do the rest of us a favor and go watch cricket or lacross or polo. Leave the disciplin building the the professionals.

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My daddy never let anyone kick me. That’s why I became an alcoholic.

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That why this country is going to hell. If we don’t go back to the old ways it will continue to go down hill. We keep funding all these programs that are going to save the world and we won’t allow kids to be disciplined. So don’t moan and groan when the Test scores are down and crime rate is up. We are the reason, but that is the way society wants it.

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Southernbelle,

Your comments are not facts but the bottomline is your attitude and way of thinking is exactly the problem in our society today. Violence against children should not be tolereated but a kick in the butt when you are wearing pads on a football field playing a violent game is a very different thing. My son plays football and even if he ran home and told me this I would tell him to suck it up and don’t do what you did again and you won’t get kicked. The school of hard knocks has produced some great people. So, get your facts correct and get out there and vote…I’m 100% certain you got Obama/Biden on your ticket!!

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Interesting that the coach gets suspended for the infraction then fired after the BOE realizes the interim coach is doing well, so far, at 3 and 0.

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WHAT A CANDY ASS, THAT WOULD GO HOME AND TELL HIS MOMMY.
EVERYBODY ON THE TEAM SHOULD KICK HIM IN THE ASS.

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You take a kick in the ass, a jerk of the helmet in football. In boot camp you take a punch for screwing up, you do not do it again, believe me. This coach being fired is the wussification of America.

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I know nothing about this incident and I’ve got a hundred bucks that says the coach was white, the kid was black and they made a racial issue out of it.

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Look, Prison Guards can not go around kicking the heck out of prisoners just because they are being difficult And believe me, a lot of them need that and worse. Citizens, in this country can not just walk up to another citizen and kick him in the butt(without expecting a fight or worse). It is against the law! So why in the heck is it acceptable for a grown man to kick a child, because he is not performing the way the coach thinks he should. I am certain “man”/ the coach, with his infinite wisdom can find other ways to get through to these players, without using physical abuse. And as so many have pointed out, “these ain’t the good ol days”.

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We live in a society of pussies! Everything about it has become vile and disgusting.

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I had a coach kick me in the butt at practice in high school and his toe hit my tailbone under the pads…..hurt like hell…..my dad saw the black and blue bruise and asked about it…..so I told him how it happened. He went to the next practice and tried to discuss the issue with the coach who laughed at him and would not discuss it at all…..and as he walked away, my dad kicked him in the fanny and if it’d been a field goal it’d been a 50 yard shot. Message sent and delivered. What goes around comes around.

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[...] to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, offensive coordinator Chris Wade took over following Pollock’s suspension and has led the team to wins in each of its three games, raising their overall record to [...]

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P J Dawg-

No doubt Mitt the Twit came up in the school of hard knocks. Mitt’s a wuss and Ryan’s a poser. I am both. Just ask my daddy.
Give me a break.

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Wow… how pathetic has our country become? Next thing you know Drill Sergeants will be fired for yelling and new recruits. No wonder other countries don’t fear us any more.

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Personally, I have neverr kicked a player although the idea seemed justified several times. As a coach for 16 years of 7 thru 12 year-olds I found that most kids enjoyed being disciplined in the correct way and after a few years in our system demonstrated love for me and our other coaches from our beginning in the 1970’s and 1980s through today. This is a politically correct action by the BOE and indicates just how far we, as a society, have fallen disciplining young people. In the defense of the BOE they have an extremely tough job as we all know from lawsuits, etc. often being filed over a very trivial matter Discipline has been banned in ALL supervised gatherings that involve young people and is largely the result of teenagers having babies that get raised by grandparents and other relatives where the breadwinner is the female in the family who sometimes work multiple jobs to make ends meet with no male assistance thereby leaving the child to roam the streets/neighborhoods at will and answer to nobody as a responsible parent. If you doubt me on this just try tracking the upbringing of MOST of the young people who get into serious trouble involving drugs, alcohol, guns, knives.home invasions,rape and even MURDER. Naturally this is NOT the case everytime but, from my experience it is, by far, the leading problem. Please note that this upbringing is taken into their adulthood in college, the NBA(primarily), the NFL and MBA. I recall only a couple of such activities in the PGA but those include Tiger Woods and John Daly who did not experience the above type raising.

Say what you like but that is the main problem with our current society and(God forbid) it will get worse if that is possible.

Every person involved with ANY child’s upbringing should realize that if there are no role models and discipline you are contributing to the biggest threat to our future generations becoming a productive or at least a responsible, law abiding citizen!

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Yeah, I old & old fashioned. A kick used to be a character builder and an attention getter. I hope the football baby’s mama is proud of herself for protecting her baby. She’s prob getting ready to sue the poor coach who probably doing his best to make something out of the kid.

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what a shame a swift kick in the behind and somebody gets their panties in a freaking bunch. This is football he didn’t punch ,slap, or cause undo physical or mental damage to the little panty waste. Shame on this school board for firing this man. Again part of the big wussification of America.

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Well, at least some of the commenters here have it right; this was a much better country when it was more acceptable to lash out angrily and violently at children.

If that kid had been a true Christian like we are, he would have just turned the other “cheek.”

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He should have known better, teacher’s are told constantly that you can’t put your hands on a student! He is a teacher 1st then coach; you have to abide by the GDE rules…

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Call me an old out of place heel but I thought that the coach was doing his job. The field and classroom not the same.

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“We has met the enemy and they is us!” -Pogo

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Bunch of freaking sissies. Give me a break. I bet all yall who said he should have been fired never even played football. Let em come after me with charges too.

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We dont go back to the old days! These people on here ,say we need to go back when our country was tough? ( I was a college athlete and I never saw anyone kicked by a coach ever!) I am white and 58 years old and I dont think the good old days were good days for blacks, women, gays and anyone else who did not look white. Obama pisses off southern whites because he is
Boss now, not because he wants everyone to have a chance in our great country. He is not a great
but I am not going back to 1970 This is 2012 not 1860 and I am afraid, many of you on these boards will be looking for something to kick after Obama is re-elected .

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I went to school with Michael also until his dad got mad for his playing time a tPelham high school and moved him to a private school. He was prejudice as hell then and still now. If he had been kicked in the ass the child would be locked up.

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Unfortunately, that “there’s not much courage in Augusta, GA” is an opinion which may be equally applicable to Americus, GA.

Let us pray that the USA’s being the land of the free is not dependent upon its being the home of the brave.

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It’s really interesting to see how this incident has been turned into a racial issue. I guess the Old South has risen again!

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