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Originally Posted by Yamer
I'm starting to get that impression.
There are many different ways that this situation could have been handled, the way the coach and the team chose wasn't the smartest nor most effective IMO. I may not think he deserved a season long suspension, but he did break the rules.
A good lesson to the kids would have been to go back out there, finish the job they came to do, and lodge a proper complaint following the game ASAP.
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I have been talking about this with my 14 year old for awhile since it came up in another thread. I think I agree with you.
My reasoning is this- My son plays on a basketball team that's coached by a black male, probably mid 30s I'd say. His team has 10 players, 7 black, 1 Russian, and 2 white kids. My son is very tall for just turning 14, 6'3 and he weighs 205. Last night he scored 16 points and one of the kids said 'Not too bad for a white guy.' This isn't the first time he's been razzed for being 'a white guy' and I am sure it won't be the last. They call him cracker/whitey and all kinds of other names, and his coach does it too. I really never even thought about it before, just sort of laughed along. But- I was thinking of this situation in hockey and I asked my son last night what he would have done in the same situation. He said
'Mom, they are just stupid words by stupid kids. The main thing is, we win the game. No way I'd want to stop playing over some stupid comment or name calling.'
Now, mind you, he's been brought up in Mid-Western America, not Canada. Racial issues here are just so different than I remember in Canada.
Just some comments from another perspective. I am not saying the coach was wrong- but I think that pulling the team was probably not the best way to handle the situation.