Morehead State coach Sean Woods pushes player to tears with bench outburst
 

Morehead State coach Sean Woods pushes player to tears with bench outburst
Rob Dauster
Nov 21, 2012, 11:14 PM EST
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I don’t know the story behind the relationship that Morehead State head coach Sean Woods has with anyone on his team.

And frankly, I don’t care about it.

For all I know, Devon Atkinson could be the biggest pain in the you know what that Woods has ever coached. He could talk back. He could curse out his coach. He might kick puppies. He could even use the last of the milk in his morning cereal and put the empty carton back into the fridge.

I don’t know. And neither do you.

Which is why Woods’ reaction on the bench during Morehead State’s 81-70 loss to is so problematic.

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If you haven’t seen it yet, Woods nearly reduced Atkinson to tears on Wednesday night. During a timeout at the 5:51 mark, Woods shoved Atkinson towards the team huddle and then twice went nose-to-nose with the player, screaming at him.

Personally, I don’t have a huge issue with this. Did Woods go too far here? Probably, yes. Is Woods a guy that I would want to play for? No. Would it be the style that I coached in? Probably not. But this Morehead State team is one that thrives on hustle and energy, and it’s not crazy to think that they thrive on their fiery head coach for that. Every athlete has, at some point in their life, played for a ‘screamer’. You deal with it.

The bigger issue is that this is going to be the topic of conversation coming out of this game. Case in point: this post. I’m 250 words into the post, and I’m just now mentioning the fact that for 30 minutes on Wednesday night, Morehead State took it to Kentucky in Rupp. It was a sensational performance that included a 16-0 run in the first half. The Eagles weren’t able to hold on to complete the upset, but that’s expected.

They’re Morehead State.

And they were playing Kentucky.

But their performance was admirable, to say the least.

And it’s going to get buried by the mountain of criticism that Woods will receive because he pushed a player to the brink of tears on the bench.

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Q? They sure are going off on this on ESPN & Mike & Mike. I didn't see another thread but they were slamming that coach.

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The fact that this is even a problem is a f**king joke. Coaches can't yell at players anymore?

Honestly, put a reporter and a video camera at any high school football practice during the summer and you'll see FAR WORSE. I mean, way worse.

When did football coaches being maniacal assholes become unacceptable?

He can sit there and pout our coaches did the same on the high school level too. ESPN just made a big whoopty **** a doo about it is why I made the thread.

Huhhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh Morehead

Sorry but you can't push a player. At that point its a problem
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no yelling in fantasy football.

That wasn't much of a push. It's more like he swept him towards the bench, almost looked like he was trying to pat his ass like coaches and players do sometimes. I don't think it's a big deal. What I wanna know is why he was so angry at the player.

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it was a push. the Amer is what convinces me of it. At that point he can't put his hands on a player. if that was my kid we would have had problems, probably right than and there.

Hell me at that age definitely would have punched that ****er, but I have tried to teach my children better than that... Just let Dad handle the stupid idiots.
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Oh yeah it was a push, just not much of one. He shouldn't do it, but these things happen from time to time. Didn't Bobby Knight strangle a player?

Didn't Bobby knight get fired for putting his hands on a Player?
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It should never happen. Coaches should never put their hands on a player when angry.

That's like beating your wife and saying "it wasn't much of a shot"
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But, but, but... what about the poor darlings' self esteem? He cried all of his out all over the bench! :deevee:

ROFL you're out of control. These are males. Just stop with the bleeding vag.

Yeah **** you. I'm a male too. I also have some self respect. That makes me not take shit like that from anyone.

Bitches like you are the reason people like that think they can do and get away with what that coach did.
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Nobody was beaten. It was a light shove to the bench. The coach and player probably already worked things out.

THis is off the player's twitter page.

"I need for everyone to chill with all that talk about my coach he was tell me some good stuff and he love me he was tell me good stuff. "

Putting your hands on someone while angry is never ok.

Sorry if you don't understand. Actually its against the law. What he did is battery by the letter of the law, at least how it was explained to me. Hell you can't even spit in someone's face anymore...
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again sounds like battered wife syndrome.
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LMAO Damn I had this whole thing written out. Turns out he's a senior.

Yeah..that player is like a battered wife lol. Holy shit.

Yeah this post makes no sense to me...
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Obviously you don't get what I'm saying...
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Wife gets hit, she takes up for husband. "it was a mistake, it was my fault, he lovesme"

Sound familiar?
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I've got no problem with a coach giving a player an ass chewing. Hell, I got tore into by my high school football coach more times than I can count. I have a problem with a coach getting up nose to nose with me or generally in my face. Chew my ass out all you want, the minute you get nose to nose with me we're gonna have a problem.

The issue with me isn't the yelling. That's how you instill discipline in certain people. The issue I have is with the push. I feel like that's going too far.

I've been one of the more outspoken liberals on the board. I even refuse to let me son play with toy guns because guns aren't toys. And I've also been outspoken out the hostility this board permits and generates over the years.

All of that said, even I don't see much if anything wrong with that clip. I'm not clear that the player was near tears. And if he was, I'm not sure that's a problem. And even if it were, I don't see how that confrontation is a problem.

The worst part of the clip was him the coach shoving the player. And that was borderline at worst.

I don't yell at my son unless he's far away, can't hear me or isn't paying attention or is in danger. But I do get in his face and it's a very good way to quietly demand their full attention. I haven't seen many if anyone else in coaching do much of that (getting nose to nose).

I guess if he was saying really shitty things about the kids family or deceased relative or something, maybe that's the problem. Otherwise, I don't much get the issue here.

Young men break down in sobbing fits during job performance reviews where the information is delivered in a normal tone too.


That kids was acting like a punk and was back talking his coach. He had an ass chewing coming from what I see.

Having trouble feeling bad about it for that kid who is essentially getting a free ride to college to do what that coach asks him to do. Every person is wired different and some people, particularly those who have never had it, need a boot in the ass once in a while to get results.

Grown men... nothing to see move on. Some of you jokers want to desensitize everybody and it ain't happening. You can see the black and white guys on the bench look over for a second and then look away.

would you be ok with it if the player had punched the coach?

Grown men and all...


Maybe the other players were embarrassed for the guy.
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the kid was walking off the court. The coach was screaming at him. He went to walk to the bench coach pushes him. ANOTHER coach gets in players face, head coach comes back in screaming while other coach holds kid there to take it.


**** that. Sorry. If that had been my child, grown or not, I've got a ****ing problem.
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I wonder what he did? The crowd was booing him.

It looked to me like the coach told him to get his ass to the sideline and he ignored him and back talked and then moped over, and then back talked both of the coaches who got into his face.

Yes, and I would bet on the other players making him regret throwing the punch.

Lol. Yeah right. His teammates? Ok
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I once mouthed off to a ref in a fit of anger and then some people in the crowd got on me and I said something to them.

I was pulled off of the competition area by a 2 hand throat choke, lifted off the ground and screamed at like the Macho Man. I had every bit of it coming and I learned a lot about a better way to respond.

Yep.... probably hold him up, so the coach can open up his ears and take that dazed wtf did I do coach look of his face. :hmmm:ROFL

What's the deal ****ing deal?

This type of posting is unacceptable on Chiefsplanet.

We have the team name in the url and my daughter could click on this.

Shame.

FOR SHAME!

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From a coaching point of view, you never lay hands on a player in a hostile manor, " NEVER". It's bad policy, there are ways to get the kids attention, benching, running laps, game suspensions, etc.

Was the kid disrespectful to the coach, yes, but that happens and you can't stop this on the court yet you can handle it in house. The assistant coach started to step in and then stopped, but he handled it wrong. He should have be engaged in a way to defuse it, not add fuel to the heated exchange.

I was taught that as a HC or an Ass. coach here in some of the Jr Pro, MS,& HS I have worked is to separate the HC & the player, allow the HC to address the team, let things cool off and an assistant can handle the player or the coach can address him after the TO. It's how we did things here at the HS level, kids attitudes fuel quicker now days than when I went to school.

Always defuse the heated exchange and handle it in house, doing it on the court allows the world to see what type of asshole you are.

This I'll agree with.

I've been called everything but Christian as a HS athlete but never touched. Not once, and I'd argue I had a very unstable coach who got away with a ton of shady $#it.

At the next level you should expect to hear more (you're an adult) and you better be able to take more.

That said, laying your hands on a kid even in a soft manner is crossing the new line...

I had a whole paragraph written out to refute your words then I looked him up realizing he is a senior. If he was a freshman than I would have posted what I had.

This is true Brad, as an adult you have to take the high road.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebask...tball/21106654

1 game suspension.

Kids need to watch more cowboy movies and shit and learn to be men. I have been balled out much worse then that by Assistant Mangers in 4.25 min wage jobs when I was 16-17 years old. It sucked but I didn't even bat an eyelid.

He got the 1 game for putting his hand on him while angry like he was. He was very livid, you never lay hands on someone when angry like that.

Then he should have punched him back and bloodied his nose. Better then crying about it.

If the coach was a white guy and did that to a black kid, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would be leading protests on campus for the removal of the coach.

And if a Black Coach did that to a White kid, they would be doing the same things except trying to spin it as the White kids fault somehow.

I guess i missed the part where the player cries. I didnt see any tears, just some puffing, which could be from anger or from....you know, playing basketball.

Hire him. Yelling coaches are good, unless they are named Haley.

You guys are honestly defending this guy? His actions were unacceptable. I played HS and a sport in college. Yelling at a kid right in his face and Grabbing a kids arm is one thing. pushing him like that is another. If a coach treated me like that he better be ready to get shoved back, and to the ground.

Maybe he could publicly berate Scott Pioli into a sobbing mess?