Its disturbing to me.
There's a difference between a demanding coach and a abusive coach.
While at the amateur level I haven't seen any signs of gross abuse on the teams I've coached for and I've coached football for a loooong time. I have seen things that I don't like on other sidelines, especially from the older school coaches, but I want to put a rider on that as well that I'm seeing less and less of that.
Last year I took real offense with something that I saw on the field with one of our sister teams and I addressed it in the hardest possible manner.
Its up to the coaches and even the various sports bodies though to do a way better job of teaching coaches and policing coaches.
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