Kid kicked off basketball team for hair

WWJNOAMD? (What would Joachim Noah or Adam Morrision do?)

http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/Teen-kicked-off-basketball-team-for-hairstyle?urn=highschool-304424

I'll kick you out of my home off of my team if you don't CUT THAT HAIR! (Story actually has a Beastie 'fight for your rights' reference.)

No mention if there's a 3 tattoo limit.....

 

Cut your damn hair hippy.

Like it or not, coaches have dress codes. Many coaches make players wear ties on game days. Should that be banned?

 

They post this story with a huge photo OF THE COACH under the headline and no photo at all of the crazy-haired kid? Fail.

 

It's a junior high team. It's very likely there's no photo of the kid for access on the Web. Plus, there's that posting a photo of an underage boy thing.

 

Don't we post and publish photos of underage kids all the time? Otherwise, what am I taking all these damn mugshots for at the start of every season?

 

Complete crock that a coach really thinks his hair policy is that important. In extreme cases, if need be, see if he'll tie it up. Maybe.

 

Another opportunity to remind myself that I will never argue with a kid over his hair length. There will be many other fights to pick.

 

Goddamn it, I thought we fought this battle 40 years ago.




Does not approve.

Apparently the school board wants to mandate mullets.

 

I recall hair and dress code when I was a kid. I think its a reflection of the permissiveness going around.

 

Obviously, so does the coach. Much, much bigger fights to pick than this one.

Starman, you can't ask the world to evolve, think and move forward. That's just too much.

 

Difference between your publication taking the photo for a purpose and just doing a Google image search and citing the source. It's an extremely gray area legally with minors ... at least in Colorado.

 

When I was a freshman in HS, 1972, we had an all-state linebacker who had hair down to his WAIST. Yes, his waist. This was in the early days of the real hippie era -- waist-length hair was still a bit unusual.

He wore it in a ponytail that hung down over his number in the back.

The coach was a hardcore-fundamentals guy who stayed there almost 35 years before retiring about 6-8 years ago with a career WL percentage of about .800. He said, "what you do with your hair is your own problem, as long as you keep it clean you can do whatever you want."

He did require kids to "dress up" on game days -- either shirt/ties or dress sweaters.

He used to get asked about the ponytail kid, "aren't people going to grab his ponytail?" He said, "Yeah. They try it once."