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Kid kicked off basketball team for hair

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Captain_Kirk, Jan 7, 2011.

  1. Point of Order

    Point of Order Active Member

    No photo, no story. Stupid story anyway. Coach can make whatever rules he wants about hair.
     
  2. Matt Stephens

    Matt Stephens Well-Known Member

    During baseball in high school I had a beard to start senior year and our AD said "you can't play on my field with facial hair." So I shaved it and left sideburns ... then our AD continued to freak out and said my sideburns can't go below halfway down my ear. I could never stand that guy.
     
  3. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    To me, its the tension between (1) the coach running the team under his rules without any need to ID justification for the rule and (2) the need to follow rules without question.

    Why does the coach have to justify every rule or accommodate everyone's personal preference?

    Kids need to understand that they don't get everything they want and that sometimes you don't get an explanation.

    Sacrifice for the greater good of the team.

    We, the parents, appoint the coaches and that means we give up some control. Not everything has to be explained, only things that are extreme/obviously wrong (e.g. everyone must be bald, or everyone must camp out overnight without any adult supervision.)
     
  4. MightyMouse

    MightyMouse Member

    I recall Don Mattingly having a similar confrontation with Mr. Burns.
     
  5. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    That happened at Auburn, the high school, when the son of an assistant coach at Auburn (Trooper Taylor for those curious), the university, complained about the policy.
    Kid, at the urging of his mother, sued saying the coach's policy was racial discrimination because he wouldn't allow braids. Oh, Auburn's coach has been there forever and is African-American.
    They'll revisit the policy next year, but the bullshit factor from the Taylors is wonderful. Taylor the Auburn High School father doesn't like what the coach did ("Got to stick up for what's right"), but Taylor the Auburn University coach would never tolerate this...
    F-tard
     
  6. Point of Order

    Point of Order Active Member

    Next they'll be banning Troopah Towels.
     
  7. schiezainc

    schiezainc Well-Known Member

    I'll be the one to say it.

    The kid obviously isn't that good a basketball player. Otherwise, the coach would let it slide because that's the kind of treatment good athletes get in regard to the rules.

    Maybe he should spend his suddenly free afternoons working on his jump shot.
     
  8. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    He can? Who gave him that authority?
     
  9. ifilus

    ifilus Well-Known Member


    Parents appoint the coaches?
    That's news to me.
     
  10. Point of Order

    Point of Order Active Member

    The same person who gave him the authority to decide who plays on his team.
     
  11. franticscribe

    franticscribe Well-Known Member

    This post has me all sorts of confused. You generally shouldn't be taking photos you get off Google Image search for your publication because a) you don't own the copyright or have a license to use it and b)since you didn't take the photo you don't know if there are authenticity problems.

    Whether it has a minor in it is pretty much irrelevant. I'm failing to see the "gray area."
     
  12. franticscribe

    franticscribe Well-Known Member

    The kid's lawsuit has a snowball's chance in hell of going anywhere. Playing sports is a privilege, not a right, which gives school systems a much greater amount of leeway to control an athlete's conduct and appearance. It's not hampering his expressive speech rights because he doesn't have to play basketball.

    The only way I could see it having any merit is if the kid wore his hair long as part of some religious practice.
     
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