re: Alabama Baseball Thread V2 : season over thank goodness

Those are some ridiculous rules. I don't even think Saban is that strict

I don't see a damn thing wrong with any of those rules. Goff runs a tight ship...so what? Nothing he's requiring is difficult or too much to ask. Some of you kids need to grow up and start acting like men.

The guy's trying to turn kids into mature young adults. That particular rule may be considered extreme, but he's attempting to make serious young men out of apparently a bunch of kids. Often, it's the small rules that begin the process of bringing a group together to become a team. None of his requirements are hard to accomplish, and all of them improve the individual.

By requiring a group to adhere to the same standard of appearance, attitude and commitment, you begin to form the nucleus of "team" mentality (think military), and becoming a part of a successful team will make one a better person,IMO.

You make a good point, but I strongly suspect that the team that Goff was left with had little to no discipline...probably very soft. Sometimes you must tear something down to build it back the way it needs to be. I'm sure there'll be casualties, but that's got to happen to achieve the desired result. Although to a greater degree, think about Navy Seal training program and their finished product.

Exactly. We should start seeing things really changing over the off season.

I mean, it's a bit much, I'd hope if it was a culture thing that older guys would kind of make it clear it's not something we do. But, it's the first year, so maybe he felt like he needed to lay it out.

Obviously while working in the yard or shooting basketball or something, whatever, but I get it in a sense of wearing it that way walking around the quad. If that's part of your M.O. I don't really have an issue with it.

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Please explain how keeping your sideburns above your ear hole makes you a better person? Please explain how shaving your facial hair makes you a better person?

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Again, this is baseball. People in general may think a bunch of these rules are dumb, but they are not crazy in a baseball program sense. The "no drinking" ever thing seems a bit silly as does the "no backwards hat ever", but everything else is standard stuff.

Hell, Jason Motte had to shave his face before he signed with the Braves.

Like was said above, the issue seems to be with his rash adding to of the rules like the whole "it's cold you can't put your hands in your pockets" stuff. Those rules by themselves are not crazy at all IMHO. They are much less strict than a lot of crazy-ex military coaches in the JuCo and NAIA ranks (see Southern Union CC for a perfect example).

Clearly that was Gaspard's list. The date is 2015. And he wasn't enforcing them.