Need more context. Did the bitch have it coming or not?

Meanwhile she's begging guys to pull her hair 30 minutes after class ends but angry daddy has no idea his fallen angel is emotionally manipulating him while splitting two hogs like a gymnast-y.

You keep your ****ing hands off of my kids.

You reproduced?

Whenever I see TheTardian post, I curse the day you produced your own little mongoloid.

You're right. Context matters. But I think there is enough there to be like, nah. If there was any being mouthy or yelling at the refs, the proper move is to get them away from the court on the bench. I've been in a ****load of basketball games, and the way to get control of your bench is to get between the bench and the sideline.

I can’t think of one reason a girls basketball coach would have to pull a girls ponytail. Not one.

I'm pretty chill as a sports parent but if I witnessed that I would definitely be down there ASAP putting hands on that coach. Not acceptable.

what a ****wad.

I don't have kids, so maybe I'm completely out of touch. I wouldn't have really thought about this if it was my kid. Coaches grab players to get their attention, don't they?

What if billay yanked your ponytail while he was clapping your cheeks

I'm sure Andy Reid grabs guys by the dreadlocks daily /

The incident involves a highly accomplished coach and a highly accomplished player. The coach won a state championship in boys basketball in 1987 and was later voted to the hall of fame for coaches in New York. The player is the all-time leading scorer for the program. Today, Coach Zullo issued this statement (https://www.timesunion.com/news/arti...g-20236765.php). In an earlier report, "Zullo told NEWS10 ABC that Monroe directed an expletive toward Zullo after he instructed her to shake hands with the opposing team, leading to the incident." https://www.news10.com/sports/northv...t-with-player/

It's also potentially relevant that Monroe had fouled out just before the closing minutes of the game and it was a hard-fought game to decide the state championship. So, if she had in fact said an expletive to the coach, she may have been upset about having been fouled out.

Anyway, I graduated high school in the 1980s and played high school sports. When I played, you could expect far worse from a coach if you cussed at him, especially if in fact you did it in a context that had to do with showing good sportsmanship or some other high-stakes situation. I'm not saying it's excusable what the coach did, but I am saying I damn sure can understand how a coach from a different era would react in a situation like that.

In HS (what maybe 37 years ago?) if I'd ever cursed at one of my coaches, they probably would've slapped me in the mouth. And I'm reasonably sure that my dad would've slapped me in the mouth as soon as he found out what I'd done.



But we live in different times now and coddling people even when they disrespect their teachers/coaches/elders is the norm not the exception.

It's good that the teammate stepped in to defend, but I would bet that the coach was himself glad that she did, because good coaches want their players to defend one another. The coach didn't have a beef with the teammate. He had a beef with the player whose hair he tugged. Anyway, it's just a sad situation. I never played for a state championship, but I know how it is when you're a kid and realizing that you lost that one chance. For the coach, he probably long ago figured out how to handle disappointments in the postseason, but he considers it important for the players to develop character and show class in key moments. I'm sure he is upset with himself for how he reacted in that situation. It's just an all-around sad situation.