This can backfire. The players, if they find this coach to be inauthentic or authoritarian, might just do what lots of young people do, get rebellious. Advantage Saban, who certainly knows how to exploit that possibility.
I don't think a high school coach can keep a recruiter off a schools campus. That would be up to maybe the principal or school superintendant.He's been complaining. It's just now making national news. He got on our local sports talk radio show a few years ago (during Harris' recruitment) and said he was not allowing any Alabama coaches (including Nick Saban) on "his" campus.
He can't and that's what makes his statements ridiculous and embarrassing. He doesn't have that type authority. That's what a lot of people who have been calling into our local sports talk radio show this week keep saying. That he doesn't have the authority to "ban" anyone from campus. That type action is above his pay grade.I don't think a high school coach can keep a recruiter off a schools campus. That would be up to maybe the principal or school superintendant.
I agree he can't ban anyone but he can certainly by uncooperative with a college coach, like saying he'll send tape and then "forget" or fill the player's heads with negative things about a particular coach. There are tons of ways to be uncooperative via the passive/aggressive approach.He can't and that's what makes his statements ridiculous and embarrassing. He doesn't have that type authority. That's what a lot of people who have been calling into our local sports talk radio show this week keep saying. That he doesn't have the authority to "ban" anyone from campus. That type action is above his pay grade.
And in doing this who is he really hurting? It dang sure isn't Alabama and Nick Saban. Ultimately it's hurting the kids and that's what the local people are saying. He needs to shut his pie hole and put the kids' futures ahead of his ego or preferences. Because at the end of the day Alabama and Nick Saban will either get his 5 star players or somebody else's. He's getting raked over the coals around here and rightfully so. I'm surprised Parkway's principal hasn't stepped in and put a muzzle on him. They are getting some bad press locally.I agree he can't ban anyone but he can certainly by uncooperative with a college coach, like saying he'll send tape and then "forget" or fill the player's heads with negative things about a particular coach. There are tons of ways to be uncooperative via the passive/aggressive approach.
The thing is Saban's a heck of a lot smarter than this dude will ever be. Don't think for a second Saban would back off someone he really wanted just because of this bozo.
LINKAGEJust saw where he was fired. REC doing work
Making stupid comments on live radio has consequences.Just saw where he was fired. REC doing work
Hard to fire a guy who has tenure I assume. They can take away his passion and make him quit eventually though.
I've seen that done at university. Place a troublesome prof with tenure in a soul crushing position. Can go 2 ways, the prof quits or he makes like a government employee and plays Starcraft all day.Hard to fire a guy who has tenure I assume. They can take away his passion and make him quit eventually though.
I'm surprised Parkway's principal hasn't stepped in and put a muzzle on him. They are getting some bad press locally.
Just saw where he was fired. REC doing work
Making stupid comments on live radio has consequences.
I wonder what the hell he was expecting to happen by embarrassing his employer in public like that? That what`s known as a " career limiting gesture".Making stupid comments on live radio has consequences.
Yep. This from 2015:This guy is a tool bag and isn't liked among his other HS coaching peers. One of the local HS football coaches is my neighbor and can't stand this dude. He's very weird and goes out of his way to be a toolbag. They were caught cheating a few years ago and left out of the playoffs. He's been criticized by the local fans here for running to any camera or microphone he can and publicly criticizing the LSU coaching staff for Brandon Harris' failures at the college level.