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...Most coaches aren't tyrants. Indeed, few have forgotten the lessons of Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight and Ohio State University football coach Woody Hayes - on-field dictators of the old school, whose bullying tactics tainted their otherwise remarkable athletic legacies. "It sounds like these guys were doing things the old-fashioned way and got busted," says Kenneth Shropshire, a Wharton School professor who is also a sports sociologist. (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
What's more, in today's media-saturated world - where big-time college football teams are covered as closely as the White House by newspapers, radio, TV and all manner of websites - it would seem shocking that any coach would think he could get away with abusing a player. But coaches are more powerful than ever, with seemingly recession-proof salaries. According to a USA Today study, the average pay for major-college football coaches has risen 28% over the past two years, to $1.36 million. In 2007, 12 coaches made at least $2 million. Today, that number has more...
...there any place for the old fire-and-brimstone football coach who isn't afraid to cuss out his boys and even dole out a bit of corporal punishment in order to teach his team to man up? No, insists Shropshire, who recalls getting showered with unprintable verbal abuse by one assistant coach while he was an offensive lineman at Stanford in the 1970s. "Society has evolved," he says. "We shouldn't be longing for the good old days...
...tremendous team effort defensively,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “I can’t say enough about the way we’ve been guarding and playing defense...
...Coach has been getting on me about staying active, getting on the glass and kind of being the energy guy, the athletic guy for us,” Casey said...