PA high school football coach resigns after getting threats from parents

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has a group of players this year who are constantly disrespectful to the coaches. To discipline them, he told the players they wouldn't start the next game.

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When I played... they'd of run until they puked every single practice and then run some more. And still not played the next game. And probably got lit up by the coach for good measure.

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When I played... they'd of run until they puked every single practice and then run some more.

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Always at the first practice, coach was trying to weed out the physically and mentally weak. Complain? 10 more sprints.

Dat Delaware Punch NIL ain’t gonna come if junior is riding the pine

His full resignation letter is at the original local news site:

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“This isn’t the first or last time in Schuylkill County that parents ran out a young coach. We live in a world where parents and children are friends, they lack discipline and when their child tells a coach to “go (f***) themselves,” the parent deflects that behavior on the coach, the coach is the problem. When a coach disciplines their child, they get threatened that if their kid doesn’t start they better have extra security on Friday night. Everybody always makes the statement my kid is a great kid, he wouldn’t act like that. I agree to an extent it is out of the ordinary for certain kids to act out of character but it’s my job to handle it so it doesn’t become an everyday occurrence.

“Football is hard and it’s a team sport. You can’t win with ego, not one player is bigger than the program. If you allow that, you don’t have a program anymore. But add in parent pressure, and in today’s world the kid gets away with it, the parent gets away with it and the coaches get left out to dry.

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I don't blame him with not wanting to put up with that shite for trying to coach a small rural school.

Knew a HS baseball coach at a small town in the south. Parents confronted and cornered his family during a game once because their kid wasnt playing. He literally had to leave the game to go get between them because the situations was so bad and they were scaring his young kids and wife.

He left the school right after the season....

Who wants to work for an administration like that?

Admin looked the coach in the eye and said the grounds for your suspension is you sat the kids too long?

Is there more to the story from the admin side? Seems like a weak reason for a suspension.

Ive coached jr & high school football, xc, & track. Dealt with uncle rico parents & bad attitudes. Kids get it from parents

I remember the only two times my parents got mad at a coach (I'm talking little league/dizzy dean/pop warner so nothing serious) was once during winter baseball our coach called a last minute saturday practice or scrimmage (can't remember which) but it was so last minute that he said it was voluntary.

We had made plans to be out of town so I didn't do it. The next game he benched me (I was the starting catcher so I was confused but sat). When my mom came up and asked I told her why and she went and asked the coach if it was true he said yes....she ask that what I missed was voluntary to confirm it...he said yes. She asked why was i being punished for missing something voluntary. He said because I basically abandoned my team and a real teammate would have shown up. A real consequence would have been me getting kicked off the team. She said that was ridiculous but she went back to the stands.

He was a tough coach but that was excessive for him. Although he did ban water from the dugout one game because we played poorly the previous game and had to earn the right to have water.

Some of the other parents believed that that weekend was either his late daughters birthday or anniversary of her death which he had obviously taken very hard and that's why he went overboard.

The other time was during pop warner during an early season practice I had been moved to a new position and was having problems learning it. So the head coach told me to stand back and watch how to do it....so they were about to run the play when the assistant coaches noticed that I was standing away from the play watching. He lost his absolute shite screaming that I needed to get my arse in on the play grabbing me and pulling me to the line. Somehow he missed a 40 something year old man on the line with a bunch of kids around. Even when the head coach explained to him the situation he still didn't care and was screaming. My mom decided that I wasn't going to play football that year after that. Luckily my dad wasn't at that practice.

Why even speak to the parents? He's weak...doesnt deserve threats, but hes weak. I would ban the parents from the stadium until written apologies recieved, thru the police department.