USAToday running story about Buckeye Coach berating Kicker

Football coaches talking like football coaches? Whodathunkit?

I mean, I never played college football but I played high school sports and if I went and got water during streches I think worse things would've been yelled at me.  

I deem this to be okay so long as OSU doesn't make them run laps for loafing around or make them do any really hard drills as part of their conditioning process.

I've yelled worse things at Michigan kickers...

Is what this is

I really don't see much of a problem with this, berating might be a little harsh of a word in this instance.  

Is it time to raise the points required to start a topic?

just make us look like a bunch of whiney babies.  

Their practice facility sucks compared to ours.

He's a kicker.

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO START A THREAD FOR, SUNSHINE!

YOU ARE THE EQUIVALENT OF A KICKER ON THE BOARDS!

ARE YOU TIRED FROM TYPING LAME THREADS!?!?!

SACK UP, BUTTERCUP!

Seriously, the dude is coaching football. The kid is probably lazy and needed a foot in his ass. Have you ever played a sport?

Gibbons would simply have a brunette deliver the water to him.

How about a link?  Hard to believe USA Today doesn't have better things to write about... probably happens everyday 100 times over.  No, that that makes it right.  But it also doesn't reach the threshold of national media coverage.

Strange.

just needs to shut this program down.  That was a complete loss of instiutional control.  I can't wait to hear Dr. Gee cover this mess up..........

The only sensible repsonse I can think of is to drive internet traffic to Eleven Warriors, where they have the video of Kerry Coombs, doing his job as an Assistant Football Coach at the Ohio State University.  They love Kerry Coombs for a string of hyper-enthusiastic quotes, Tweets, and YouTube videos.

If Michigan had a Kerry Coombs, the MGoBoyz would be hanging on his every word.  He'd be a God, immortalized on a t-shirt.  He'd have his own YouTube channel.

Kerry Coombs is like a combination of Fred Jackson and R. Lee Ermey, except faster and made of nylon.

Enjoy.  Happy Friday:

http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2013/03/20316/ohio-state-football-spring-practice-videos-the-legend-of-kerry-coombs-grows 

My guess is Wisecrakker never played sports.  I could be wrong, but that's my guess.  

The news here is that USA Today thought that this was news.

Remember?

I talk like that to my 7yr old.

The wussification of America is on full display with the OP.

Good thing the kicker is not a Boren. He would run off and cry to the press about the lack of family values at OSU under Urban, and he would transfer to Penn State (God knows UM wouldn't take him).

I hate Ohio State as much as the next guy on this board, but clearly whoever wrote this article hasn't played sports, much less football, in his entire life. Coaches yell. They criticize. It's part of their job, and they're just doing it to make you better.



The only real news here is that USA Today thought this should be news.

I like this.  Anything potentially bad for Ohio is good in my book.

Also, the issue is not that he's berating him during stretching. Sure that's normal. It's that he is denegrating the "kicker" role.  Where does the top kicker want to go as a recruit...the place where Coombs coaches..."your just a kicker."

Plus this is Old School.  

The New School approach would get him a blond or brunette....or in this case a red head.

so is this kicker gonna quit the team now? or have his mommy or daddy call the AD and say coach hurt my babies feelings lol

Really, everything OSU does is evil and stupid and cheating and .....   What that coach said was nothing and it was funny.  

Am I that old and out of touch at 35 to be completely puzzled that this makes news?  Is it the 10 minute news cyle or do young people really think this is offensive? 

MEH

Putting down a player just because he's a kicker is just plain wrong - has nothing to do with "pussification".  Putting down a player because he's drinking water is also wrong.  If a player needs water, then he needs water - don't deny him water.  The coach has no clue what the player is feeling - maybe the player actually NEEDS water.  

Coombs was an idiot for doing that.  Damon Webb, if you see this, this guy recruited you - decommit now and GO BLUE!! 

A punter would have pulled a knife on him. We all know punters are bad eggs.

Meanwhile, star players, such as the long snapper, are getting preferential star treatment from Urb within the infamous circle of trust.  This single video is obviously the beginning of the end for Urb and OSU.

The OP started this thread as a satirical piece.

Coombs is saying the player needs to stretch because of his position. Neglecting stretching is basically the only way a kicker is going to get hurt. Coombs is looking out for him not belittling him.

Oh no! People being mean?

I remember my football coaches calling our DL a bunch of "mental midgets" (his words, not mine).  They sort of did give up 200 ypg rushing, so anyway.

The OL was referred to us a the "big, dumb and uglies" (again, coaches' words).

The skilled position dudes were called "princesses" or "glory boys" (i.e. needing frequent manicures and bubble baths after games).

Kickers? Well, our DE was our punter and PK and with a 47 yd punting avg and hitting 70 yd FGs in game warms up, coaches didn't swear much at our kicker.

Aren't football practices supposed to be a barrage of pejoratives? Most of us back then became callous to name calling and beratement from adult coaches by the time we were sophomores (16 yrs old).  It doesn't lift you up, but at some point it didn't tear you down much either. 

And water? If it was hot, we got water breaks. Otherwise, I remember it being mostly withheld until practice ended.

OP obviously never played football.

Soft.  One time my high school coach kicked me in the throat.  True story.

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A good kicker should know not to take himself too seriously.

I have yelled much worse things in front of kids' parents, and they haven't said a darn thing.  Most people realize that when you're doing something wrong on a football field, you're going to get barked at for it.  There are certain lines you can't/shouldn't cross, but this is much ado about nothing.

Response to your "Edit:". Bullshit. You didn't make any comments about sensationalizing nonsense stories. You sensationalized the story yourself.

Carry on.

Water is wet, the sky is blue, grass is green and Coombs is Coombs. Non-story here and a waste of time by USAtoday. I've heard worst playing varisty sports. Carry on, nothing to see here! 

Please