I actually think this would further encourage this behavior.
So what do you do about suburban schools like the ones mentioned here and the one in the do you feel safe thread? Reading these posts and some on other threads a few of you guys would probably vote segregation back in if you didn’t think it would hurt your team’s chances at a championship.
Se you blowing it out of proportion. There was no guns. There was nothing. But kids rushing to see a whatever was going on. There was nothing there Evidently because no arrests or anyone Detained or tickets. No one taken into custody. No one cuffed. You saying all kids carry guns and pull them out all the time? If you don't feel safe don't go out. But don't sit here and hype up a situation that was nothing. It happens all the time in this series and never got serious. Just pushing and talking. Maybe punch or two but nothing more. Not one elderly person was in any kind of trouble or close to it. So you stop making it more than what it is. This the problem.YOU!!! PEOPLE LIKE YOU!!!
That shows players going at it. It's a brutal sport. Very high emotions. Lots of competitiveness. It happens on field that's where it stays with players. They friends next day. We talking off the field. It happens. It's just in the media more now. It's all they report the bad.
However, video of the incident -- which Delta State head coach Todd Cooley shared on his X social media account -- also showed fans along the home sideline apparently getting involved in the dustup."
Ok it happens. You want a perfect world? This stuff happens. It's just everyone is so damn sensitive now they make everything a huge deal. This happened all time in past. Nothing said because no big deal. Now it's a different soft world with soft sensitive people. No one hurt no one harmed. No big deal.
Thank you Vamps!
How do you coach to instigate fights? I've seen a lot silly, simple unthought of, even racist comments on Yappi but this is the dumbest sh.......t I've ever seen on Yappi in 17 years.
It's not blowing it out of proportion. Fights break the law and are dangerous to those around them, because someone could have had a weapon or an innocent passerby could have gotten injured accidentally. Just because nobody was handcuffed, arrested, or charged doesn't mean nothing happened. Quite frankly, the fact that nobody got arrested is the reason these incidents keep happening. There aren't any consequences anymore for anything unless you kill someone. Violence, theft, burglary, drugs all don't mean squat. It started when judges were letting guilty parties off essentially consequence free with "community service" for heinous crimes. Then prosecutors stopped charging people due to the lack of punishments. Now cops don't bother arresting people because it's a lot of paperwork, and they know absolutely nothing will happen, especially with minors.
He does coach it, I've seen it first hand. He teaches it by being in the middle of the field yelling at the other team to come fight his team and calls them names when they don't. His team follows his lead.
It must be true then since YOU were down on the field and heard it my bad, it does seem kind of odd that he would just randomly yell at the other team as if the other coach was standing there doing nothing, if that's even true, call them names and challenge them to a fight. Wow! I wonder why he's never been in trouble for that. That is grounds for suspension or maybe even not coach again, that's usually what happens when a coach's conduct is that bad.
But he wasn't.
OHSAA would have no authority to make such a demand.
Played against Douglass teams multiple times as a player. Had his whole team come out to confront us at midfield as we ran on the field, and witnessed it happen during other seasons. I can't say definitively that direction came from him, but hard to think that it didn't. There was a reason Trotwood was mediocre for years before he had success and it was because he actively promoted extra curricular stuff from the sideline and his teams were undisciplined. Douglass talked as much trash to the opposing teams players from the sideline as anyone on the field. We were coached during preparation for Trotwood to keep our composure because they were going to try to start fights before the game, during the game and after the game (and every time we played them that turned out to be true). Douglass cried that the refs were racist whenever we beat them even though 80 to 90% of our team was black. You're talking about a guy who was suspended twice for recruiting/pressuring teachers to change grades in his early years at Trotwood. Suspended another time for publicly criticizing officials. He was kept around despite all of his antics because he had support from players and parents because he would get a high number of players recruited even when their team results were bad. Once he toned all of that down he started having success. For the most part, he seems to have cleaned up his act these days.
Douglass sure gets around.
You radically underestimate the "authority" of the governing "authority" (OHSAA) for all Ohio high school sports participants. No, they couldn't fire him, he's under contract with Springfield city schools, but they would sure as hel suspend his arse. If these sorts of incidents keep happening the OHSAA WILL Act. Count on it. And they won't give a dam whether you dislike their authority.
Vamps just so you know. There where no fights what so ever. Not one single fight at all. Like I said it's the media blowing this up and people not really knowing what's going on. Yes I do know the truth because it was sent out to all parents about what happen.
That's a different question. The assertion made that OHSAA would demand his firing. They do not have the authority to do that. Full stop.
