Crazed college coaches deserve to get canned
Rick Methot
Lebanon Daily News
4/15/2013
There are beliefs that humans are by nature are born evil and learn to do good through compassion. Year after year goes by where the headlines of the sports pages show the evil that currently exists in our society and in our collegiate athletics. The latest with Rutger's former men's basketball coach Mike Rice (Right) physically, verbally and mentally abusing his players. It doesn't stop at basketball several years in the past Mike Leech Head Football Coach of Texas Tech allegedly locked wide receiver Adam James in a electrical closet and forced not to sit down after sustaining a concussion in which he was ultimately let go. Are coaches put through proper background evaluations and personality reviews to be in charge of these young athletes.
There have been calls for stricter background checks for the sales of fire arms but should the NCAA and universities follow the same path? It is not only found at the division 1 level but in all levels of competition. The head women's basketball coach at division II Indian University of Pennsylvania was just recently let go for mistreatment of players, in fact the whole entire staff was. With the publicity of the Mike Rice incident at Rutgers players are no longer scared of consequences if the were to blow the whistle on unethical coaching practices. This I feel can have a positive impact for the future of athletic environments for players as long as players respect the rules that are in place to protect them and not as a scapegoat for failure or for crying wolf.
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