OLSM Fires Baseball Coach
OLSM Men's Baseball was #1 in the nation a couple years ago, and the coach is the son of former Detroit Tiger Dan Petry
From what I've heard from people who's kids go there, he was texting a 14yo female student.
September 27th, 2023 at 9:39 AM ^
When are these guys gonna learn?
First of all, as a teacher, this sickens me and is wrong on multiple levels....but...Jesus H Christ. How many times does this have to keep happening?
A guy's dick can be his best friend, but that lil monster can get you in so much trouble.
September 27th, 2023 at 9:45 AM ^
It's not just guys. Plenty of women teachers getting their hand caught in the teenage cookie jar in the news lately.
My theory is that stuff like this always happened, maybe even more in the past, but it wasn't talked about.
September 27th, 2023 at 10:08 AM ^
Agreed and that's just as sick. I'm all for people enjoying a healthy sex life, but minors are OFF LIMITS...ALWAYS!
September 27th, 2023 at 10:33 AM ^
Your theory is supported by what my classmates and I observed in high school before the smartphone age. Two different English teachers -- one male and one female -- were openly known or believed to be involved in relationships with underage students. The students themselves would laugh it off when other students talked about it. In the case of the male teacher, he was involved with one of the cheerleaders. When she graduated he entered into a relationship with another underage student the following year. The big question that year was whether he was going to be her date for the prom.
September 27th, 2023 at 11:01 AM ^
At least 3 girls in my graduating class married teachers/coaches. The age gaps weren't huge, the largest was 12 years IIRC, and according to my social media using wife, 2 of the 3 are still together (3rd is unknown).
I don't understand the appeal personally. Have you ever spoken to a teenager at length? They are all annoying as fuck.
September 27th, 2023 at 11:49 AM ^
Considering I was a teenager once, I would say you are spot on!
September 27th, 2023 at 1:01 PM ^
It's more about a power thing than real romantic attraction. When I was just 23 I was working as a waiter for a bit and started flirting with this girl who also worked there. I called her to ask her out and she was all excited, so I was happy, but then I could hear her mom yelling at her in the background. Turns out she was sixteen years old. Suddenly she was not attractive to me anymore.
September 27th, 2023 at 12:11 PM ^
I agree with this theory - a coach at my high school was quietly told to find a new job after it was discovered he was having sex with one of the cheerleaders in the locker room. He got a job at another high school 45 miles down the road and eventually married the cheerleader (they divorced since).
September 27th, 2023 at 10:34 AM ^
Teacher leave them kids alone...
September 27th, 2023 at 1:56 PM ^
Robin Williams —“'See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.”
September 27th, 2023 at 10:59 AM ^
not so much a “dick” thing as a “pedophile” thing but yea, the ole hangy down has been getting men into a lot of trouble since … well … forever
September 27th, 2023 at 3:58 PM ^
It's not a pedophile-thing, it is a boundary thing. It is normative for an adult (of either gender) to find a post-puberty individual sexually attractive. Age does not matter, it is the sexual stage at which the object of desire presents. I know that "normative" sounds odd, but that's the term used by psycho-sexual evaluators (I'm a criminal defense lawyer).
It is a boundary-thing because society has decided, rightly, that the power dynamic between an adult and a post-pubescent minor, such that there is a high likelihood of harm/exploitation to the minor. It's also normative for most adults who cognitively are honest about their boundary-violating "interests" -- to which we are biologically wired -- to make the consciousness decision to not act on or nurture those interests, either because they don't want to be prosecuted or recognize the harm that acting out or nurturing those interests will cause.
Pedophiles are individuals who are attracted to pre-pubescent minors. Does not mean that boundary offenders are any better or worse than pedophiles. Finding acts of either repulsive is good and protective, and encourages protective behavior. However, not all pedophiles act out -- some studies inform that pedophilic interest appears at rate of 1/100. It's my firm belief (from 30+ years of experience in the field of criminal defense and working with all kinds of experts), that the more we take the shaming out of the system, the more likely that those with pedophilic or boundary-violating interests can get help before they act out, saving untold victims of sexual offenses.
That should be the goal, preventing trauma, helping those who are at risk of acting out get help before they act. The literature re "shame" is contra-indicated to preventing crime.
September 27th, 2023 at 12:52 PM ^
I remember taking a class in grad school about ten years ago and while I don't remember the specific topic we were covering, the professor made a great point that in this day and age, with social media and everyone having a recording device in their phone, there are no such things as secrets anymore. There are simply truths waiting to be revealed.
And that was ten years ago....
There really are no such things as secrets anymore. Everything you do, especially online, can be traced back. Deleted the post/tweet? Doesn't matter. A digital footprint of it exists somewhere. Deleted the call or the text? The phone company still has a record of it, as well as the person(s) you sent it to, and whoever they sent it to. This is further magnified when you are any person of significance, especially as the coach of a major college institution. All eyes are on you, anyway.
I have to sit there and ask what in the world Mel Tucker was thinking when he did this, and if he seriously thought he'd get away with it or that it would never come out. But I guess I just need to stop and realize he wasn't thinking, or he let "little Mel" do his thinking for him.
September 27th, 2023 at 7:48 PM ^
YEAH!!! Ask 7-L Mel about that "lil monster".
September 27th, 2023 at 9:43 AM ^
How to ruin your life with one text. What an idiot.
Sidenote: he's the oldest looking 38 year old I've seen.
September 27th, 2023 at 9:55 AM ^
He looks at least 50....
September 27th, 2023 at 10:31 AM ^
In his defense, trying to decipher the modern texting language and lexicon of today's teenagers is enough to age anyone an extra 10-15 years.
September 27th, 2023 at 11:14 AM ^
Millennials are aging like shit for some reason. So many of the moms at little Hatter's school look like they've been rode hard and put away wet, or just given up on life.
Gen X still looking good though.
September 27th, 2023 at 11:26 AM ^
as a fellow gen x and self proclaimed gorgeous man, which my wife has yet to disagree with (or agree with but that’s a different story) …..
I concur
September 27th, 2023 at 11:36 PM ^
Gen Xer here. Just lost 10 lbs in a month. 10 more and I've got an unstoppable dad bod. If I can lose 10 more after that, they'll put me on the cover of Sexy Old Man magazine.
September 27th, 2023 at 1:49 PM ^
+1 for the hilarious horse riding analogy that no one gets anymore.
September 27th, 2023 at 6:00 PM ^
No, we get it.
September 27th, 2023 at 9:58 AM ^
If anyone had the chance to see the Eaglets baseball team in '21 and '22 it was insane. Something you never thought you would ever see in Michigan High School baseball. The fact that they were able to build the #1 team in the nation in Michigan was a once in a generation type team.
And all of that cache is gone. Every man is a wink and two drinks away from ruining their lives.
September 27th, 2023 at 10:07 AM ^
He said wink not wank.
September 27th, 2023 at 10:05 AM ^
There is so much money in that program it wasn't fair to have them competing against public schools. I think they lost four games this past year though. The boosters probably wanted him out and he Tuggered himself.
September 27th, 2023 at 10:34 AM ^
Those teams had so many high-level college baseball players on their roster that they had Division 1 players on their bench. Brock Porter was a 4th Round pick for the Texas Rangers straight out of St. Mary's and is already a Top 100 MLB prospect. They also had the Big 12 Freshman of the Year and a kid who hits 3rd in Auburn's lineup as a true freshman. Most likely the best Michigan HS baseball team of all-time.
September 27th, 2023 at 12:11 PM ^
My son played on those teams. They were phenomenal and fun to watch. I liked Coach Petry as a coach and person. Obviously don't know what the story is here - thought it might be some kind of recruiting violation - but it's certainly surprising and disappointing.
September 27th, 2023 at 6:07 PM ^
5 or 6 years ago I took my then sophomore son to see a late March game between OSLM & Brother Rice. BR had a good team; they went on to the state semis in Div 1 that season.
And it looked like men playing with boys. Literally every OLSM starter looked college ready.
I was fortunate to attend a hs with a monster ball team; in '81 we had an MLB 3rd rounder AND JUCO player of the year. In '80 & '81 our seniors received 3 offers from a then very nationally prominent Michigan program. I know what really good hs ball looks like.
But OLSM was on another level.
September 27th, 2023 at 7:51 PM ^
Yeah!!! Ask Urb about a wink and 2 drinks!!!
September 27th, 2023 at 10:03 AM ^
Not exactly the moral of the story, but when did OLMS become co-ed? I must have missed that.
September 27th, 2023 at 10:48 AM ^
a couple years ago
September 27th, 2023 at 7:55 PM ^
The end of the current school year, 5/2024, will be the 1st 4 year cycle of female students graduating. That is, they started as freshwoman and went all 4 years.
September 27th, 2023 at 10:03 AM ^
OT?
I would never have guessed that acronym without opening the thread.
September 27th, 2023 at 10:04 AM ^
"Petry, 38, coached St. Mary's baseball for 13 years"
Man, that must've been some wild-ass 38 years.
September 27th, 2023 at 10:29 AM ^
Did that article also say he has some sort of role with admissions?
I'm sure he'll have a lot to talk shop about with the clerk at the booking station depending on how this case unfolds.
September 27th, 2023 at 10:35 AM ^
His ability to buy beer in high school must have been legendary.
September 27th, 2023 at 10:36 AM ^
Dude looks older than me, and I'm 56.
September 27th, 2023 at 10:55 AM ^
Username checks out.
September 27th, 2023 at 11:51 AM ^
Don't forget, he is under 40 and not a man!
- Mike Gundy
September 27th, 2023 at 12:26 PM ^
Eeewww.
September 27th, 2023 at 1:13 PM ^
Since learning Petry is only 38 years old, I have now looked at this picture at least 10,000 times since you posted it.
I would've guessed at least mid/late 50's.
September 27th, 2023 at 10:11 AM ^
I always told my soldiers on their Friday afternoon safety brief, " 15 minutes, can get you 20 years." Don't do it.
Some people man...
September 27th, 2023 at 1:32 PM ^
The variation I am familiar with is "17 will get you 20".
September 27th, 2023 at 2:09 PM ^
“Because five short minutes of lovin'
Done brought me twenty long years in jail”
Five Short Minutes - Jim Croce
September 27th, 2023 at 10:27 AM ^
That dudes only 38? He looks 15 years older than that
September 27th, 2023 at 10:32 AM ^
Seriously, that is the oldest 38 year old I've seen in a while.
September 27th, 2023 at 10:41 AM ^
Maybe he was trying to recruit her for the female baseball team he is putting together that he is calling THE LOLITAS.
