Re: Lisbon - and yet another school hazing surfaces?
What's going on? Really? That sounds like the line out of "Casablanca" when Claude Rains shuts down Rick's Cafe for gambling:
"I am shocked, SHOCKED, to see there is gambling going on here!"
At which point the waiter walks up to him and says, "Your winnings sir!"
Seriously, are we surprised by any of this? There has as been hazing since all of us wrestled and even before. But like everything else, it has escalated beyond control. My God, when I got into our lettermen's club in high school, we had to go through a hazing process that the coaches organized which was both painful and embarrassing.
And it's worse in wrestling. Face it; we bill our sport as a passage into manhood. You take it and ask for more. "Please sir, may I have another!"
We require massive weight cutting, and winning, winning, WINNING!!! Any coach who is not channeling his inner Tom Brands or Jim Miller is a loser. And, or course, if keep those damn girls the hell off the mat.
The very nature of the sport, and we way we treat it is the perfect breeding ground for this kind of thing. It probably wouldn't be hard at this point to find ANY program in the state that you can't find something like this.
But, perhaps, what has happened at Lisbon and Nodaway Valley can serve as cautionary tale. Maybe a few more stories like this will come out of the woodwork (and don't kid yourself; you know they're out there), and we can crack down and finally rid ourselves of this macho, rite-of-passage garbage in our sport. It's long past time.
This post was edited on 1/7 6:36 PM by dadthencoach
What's going on? Really? That sounds like the line out of "Casablanca" when Claude Rains shuts down Rick's Cafe for gambling:
"I am shocked, SHOCKED, to see there is gambling going on here!"
At which point the waiter walks up to him and says, "Your winnings sir!"
Seriously, are we surprised by any of this? There has as been hazing since all of us wrestled and even before. But like everything else, it has escalated beyond control. My God, when I got into our lettermen's club in high school, we had to go through a hazing process that the coaches organized which was both painful and embarrassing.
And it's worse in wrestling. Face it; we bill our sport as a passage into manhood. You take it and ask for more. "Please sir, may I have another!"
We require massive weight cutting, and winning, winning, WINNING!!! Any coach who is not channeling his inner Tom Brands or Jim Miller is a loser. And, or course, if keep those damn girls the hell off the mat.
The very nature of the sport, and we way we treat it is the perfect breeding ground for this kind of thing. It probably wouldn't be hard at this point to find ANY program in the state that you can't find something like this.
But, perhaps, what has happened at Lisbon and Nodaway Valley can serve as cautionary tale. Maybe a few more stories like this will come out of the woodwork (and don't kid yourself; you know they're out there), and we can crack down and finally rid ourselves of this macho, rite-of-passage garbage in our sport. It's long past time.
This post was edited on 1/7 6:36 PM by dadthencoach
