Urban Meyer and Charlie Strong's "Core Values"
QB coach George Whitfield (the guy chasing Gardner with a broom a month ago) was touring Louisville's football facilities today and tweeting out highlights. This one was kind of interesting:
George Whitfield Jr. @georgewhitfield 7h
The best football programs have cultures that build young men... Like Ohio State & others, Louisville spells it out. pic.twitter.com/tPngdIm4qF
George Whitfield Jr. @georgewhitfield 7h
Here is Ohio State's "be the best man" doctrine.. #OhioState #CompleteMan pic.twitter.com/XJUXICTYef
I guess I always assumed these things were self-explanatory and not having to be spelled out like this. Seems like a pretty low bar for core values.
A good portion of the students I teach come from not ideal homes (I teach B level physics, biology, and math). I spend a good portion of the early part of the year establishing class norms of a good citizen (ie one person talks at a time, use respectful language, cell phones are away during class, come to class prepared and on time). If students cannot handle these basic norms, then they can serve detention with me or if it gets to a point then they must schedule a meeting between me and their assistant principal before they will be allowed back in class.
However, I would hope any high school grad would understand a basic code of ethics.
I suspect people, like me, are little surprised that words like honor, integrity, respect wouldn't be enough, but that the specificity of guns, drugs, etc. would have to be spelled out. The former cover the latter, plus a whole lot more, for those who take those words to heart and live by them.
But there's obviously a reason that they are being very specific.
They are not kids. How old does a person have to be before they are finally considered an adult?
I don't think there's a specific age is there? You can join the military and die defending your country when you're 18, but you can't drink alchohol legally until you're 21. Can't parents still claim their children as dependants on their tax returns when the children are still in college?
1. Honesty
2. Integrity
3. Respect
4. Honor
5. Responsibility
Then again it's 5-10 years...
It's also good advice not to take long walks off short piers. I don't feel the need to post that on my wall, though.
Did your parents post a set of simple "rules to live by" in huge font on your bedroom wall? If not, how did you make it through high school without winding up in prison?
Thats a good point lol
No, but they reminded me from time to time. And they didn't have 100 kids, so they could, like, talk to me every day. Whereas the coaches for these teams probably don't get to interact with every kid every day. The signs might be overkill, but what the hell? They certainly don't hurt.
Umm, I really don't see anything wrong with this...
or Strong. Many college programs have had issues with players violating the precepts laid out on those signs. I cannot critcize either coach for emphasizing moral behavior.
for their own actions. Many criminals are raised by decent human beings. Upbringing alone does not explain socially aberrant conduct.
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers." ~Socrates
"Cross their legs?" Oh, the humanity!
There, now you know how I really feel...
No bong hits after midnight for you.
Say yes to free tats though, You'd be a fool not to
for plagiarism?
There are some other good ones they could have put up, not sure why they stopped there. While they are at it why not say treat everyone with respect?
Someone oughta hang one of these signs in DatBull's shed
At least he has made an attempt at reform. Do you think Saban would ever do that?
Some robots have families
Cheat on the woman who gave birth to his daugther? (http://outkickthecoverage.com/nick-sabans-daughter-kristen-accused-of-sorority-catfight-beatdown.php) Not sure he has the balls for that.
Being a workaholic is a common problem for many successful men and women but that doesn't mean Urban doesn't treat women with respect. I would imagine wives and children feeling neglected at times is par for the course for D1 head coaches.
(allegedly)
I think there's a difference between being a workaholic and slapping women around (which I'm 99.9% sure that's what the 'treat women with respect' mantra is about and btw don't call them bitches and hoes either).
Besides being downright obvious to most young men, the asthetics of these signs just seem weird. Especially OSU. Seems like word salad with the block text, bold, and a list tucked in there real sneaky like. I read (because I try to) DECISIONS! Honesty, treat with NO women respect drugs stealing violence.
If I get really weird I can see:
Honesty, treat women with no respect. Drugs! Stealing! Violence!
Subliminal messaging?
To be fair, our wall would read, "Don't do car slides if you are over 300 lbs."
98.88% of these kids are on athletic scholarships and if they want-they definitely need them in Columbus-weapons, they have to steal them. If this "core value" is actually implemented by Urbie, then there will be a lot of suspended players. The school, not unlike Barry did at OU, although never publicly admitted to, could at least steer them in the direction of a booster who is willing to supply them with weapons which should, of course, be returned, like autos, when no longer at the university. This is Ohio fergodssake. ^Never steal weapons at OH? WTF will they come up with next? Woodrow Jefferson Hayes is probably rolling over in his grave. What a bunch of idiiots. I predict that sign will be changed within three days, and if not, it will be plastered with bullet holes, as well it should be, imho of course. I mean we have our traditions and they have theirs.
"Everybody kills people, murders, steals from you, steals from me, whatever." Now maybe with these helpful signs in place "everybody" won't murder or steal. Ahh, what heights T. Pryor might have acheived has he had a reminder like this around when he was at Ohio.
I don't have a problem with coaches trying to hammer home values in kids. Yeah in a perfect world they can be left unsaid, but I'm sure this sign actually helps a lot of kids on OSU keep their priorities straight.
It does seem more like a list of "things to avoid doing so that we don't have to suspend you" list than a list of actual "core" values though. Treat women with respect? How about treat all people with respect. And I can think of about 100 things higher up on my list of values than "no drugs" and "no weapons." But again, those are the things college kids get in trouble with the most, so I understand the sign. Though the motivation behind it might be geared more towards "keep kids out of trouble with the NCAA" than "make kids into better men," it has a good influence regardless.
NO getting caught by the NCAA
and they could have their own movie.