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Originally Posted by btimbit
Played for the first 20 years of my life and must have lucked out, there was definitely hazing but more what I would call 'pranks' like the classic tape on the skate blade, or cut laces, stuff like that. Or making the new guy carry your equipment, that sort of thing, but at the end of the day these guys were still your teammates and if anyone thought up this kind of crap they would have been slapped across the head. You definitely heard these stories along the way and I'm glad I was never a part of any of it. Like you all said, this isn't hazing, it's sexual assault
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Hazing has a very strong negative connotation to it, and its earned it through nonsense like this.
I'll never get this. I just dont understand.
At the end of the day these are your teammates. You want them to go to War for you and fight in the trenches for you, I dont see where treating them like.....well like this...accomplishes any of that.
I was a Youth Soccer coach for damned near a decade at every skill level and you know what we did?
Paintball. Laser Tag. Pizza. Video games. Scrimmages.