“He wants the NCAA and high schools to help in a grassroots effort to keep outsiders away from college athletes.”

It’s called a “closed practice.” My middle school coach did it all the time. We weren’t allowed to have friends, parents or even Snoop Dogg in the gym.

REALLY?

(P.S., Is there a link to u$c’s masterpiece of an appeal?)

One person can do this, go after a university and a kid. And nothing has to be true. NOTHING has to be true. They just have to make claims, and then the investigations and all that are under way.

Wow. Really? NONE of it is true? None? Really.

Totally blind, and totally amoral. And also totally able and willing to flat out lie without inhibition. Isn’t that the definition of a sociopath?

First graders I’ve known are much more mature. They obey rules, share toys, and pick up after themselves.

If, by “really, really harsh,” Cheatey means “not nearly harsh enough,” then I’m in complete accord with the sleazester.

I think it was when he was at Notre Dame and he did something that I thought was really classless at the end of the game, as he walked off the field. I just remember thinking how tacky and unnecessary.

But my real problem with him as a coach/leader of men came when he threw the effigy of Reggie Bush off of a roof during practice. My first thought was “Wow, that really wasn’t funny,” and then, “I can’t imagine John Wooden ever doing something like that anywhere but especially not at practice.” And when you think of it, what was the point of that? To goof around and blow off steam? What is funny about, for even a nanosecond, thinking one of your teammates if falling off a building? Maybe it is something that women (like myself) just don’t get. But, hey, I just don’t get it.

Pretty soon after that incident I was struck by the realization that Pete Carroll had one of the same problems that lavin had… the desire for his players to think he was cool. This is something that creates many bad teachers and parents. And while it may seem effective and fun at first, it always leads to an unraveling.