Hickorybuck
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I agree 100%. Who knows what he actually said though. I’m sure the truth is somewhere in between best case and worse case.It's a good thing these athletes weren't in college when I was. Holy smokes - 6 gassers and a minute of jumping rope was warm ups in wrestling. Yes, I realize softball is different than wrestling but none of this sounds out of the ordinary calisthenic wise. Now I don't condone what her husband said because that is completely inappropriate.
Was this going on at Toledo before she left?
Bobby Knight or Woody Hayes 2 of the best college coach’s ever in there respective sport. Would never get away with now what they used to do to players in there era’s.I don't know if this is true or not. It seems this keeps coming up with different Coaches & Programs. We bring these kids up with the idea if things get tough, or don't go your way, just find another team. Do to transfer rule changes, its happening at the college level. A terrible thing happening, makes it easier to be eligible, without setting out a year. The Coach featured in this article may very well be guilty, but I'm starting to doubt accusations like this. I would say it's easy to say she is a really tough coach, but abusive? Time will tell?
I don't know if this is true or not. It seems this keeps coming up with different Coaches & Programs. We bring these kids up with the idea if things get tough, or don't go your way, just find another team. Do to transfer rule changes, its happening at the college level. A terrible thing happening, makes it easier to be eligible, without setting out a year. The Coach featured in this article may very well be guilty, but I'm starting to doubt accusations like this. I would say it's easy to say she is a really tough coach, but abusive? Time will tell?
Hutchins continued.
"Her character is (being questioned). You can knock people's coaching or coaching styles, but this isn't about that. They're attacking her character. What's the complaint? What's the problem? Kids want to have a say in everything and you can't coach a team … a team is one heartbeat. You can't have 15, 20 individuals, and somebody's got to be in charge of that. The leader, the general.
"There's a lot of tough decisions to make. When you make a tough decision, there's always a bunch of people that don't agree with it, because they didn't go through the entire process of making it."
"The story is really, who is running college athletics these days?" she asked. "Student-athletes. Kids say that you're yelling at them when you raise your voice when they can't hear you. They're in the outfield and it's like, 'Hey, move over!' 'Well, you're always yelling at me.' No, I'm not yelling. I'm trying to get your attention.
"Kids twist things into whatever they want and right now this is outrageous. And I've seen it happen to a lot of people."
My daughter played for Coach Butler at Toledo, however, she was recruited by the previous coach. Like most coaches, Coach Butler made a very good first impression. That didn't last long. It's not about the excessive conditioning and hard workouts. It was over the top at times but that wasn't what was difficult for the players to deal with. It was about the mind games and verbal abuse that made life miserable for the girls. She pitted players against each other. She actually told the two pitchers that they shouldn't be such good friends. They should hate each other because they are in competition for playing time. She had her spies on the team that would rat out players for little things that all college kids do. The players cell phones were taken away from them on every road trip and given back after dinner, then taken again at curfew. I have no proof the phones were looked through but I have no doubt that they were. Most of the players actually all celebrated when they got the text from Coach Butler that she was leaving for Rutgers. She is not a good person and her husband is worse and he wasn't even a coach at Toledo.
*knowWell said Rocketdad. I just shake my head when people comment on a topic / situation they no nothing about.
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Thanks for pointing that out. I should never post from a phone.
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