re: Props to Coach Miles. Really.

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The312

you're clueless. people are not robots. if you have children, i feel sorry for them. my hope is that you mature before they get old enough to ignore you and rebel like banshees.

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Yes, yes, of course, I'm "clueless" because I believe that human behaviour can be changed and influenced by punishment, cajolery, reward, intervention, conversation, instruction, and innumerable other techniques. I'm "clueless" because I believe that coaches do in fact play a vital role in instilling discipline and ensuring compliance.

Maybe I should be a sage old fatalist like you. It's funny, you say that people aren't robots, yet you seem to believe that TM was a preprogrammed Dalek who was inexorably set on the course towards rules violations and that no action by the coaches could possibly alter the outcome.