If you played football in Highschool or beyond...

Never trusted kind and gentle head coaches. Pretty much need to be ruthless drill sergeants, IMO.

I coach high school football and kids today are soft. When I played my coach would grab my by the face mask and cuss me out for what ever reason and I just manned up and went after it the next play.

If I do that to one of my players my arse is fired. most of our kids get all in their feelings when you get on to them for messing up or what ever.

But, a huge trend at least in my area, is that many of the players dont know their dad's and are being raised my their mother and the difference between a kid raised by their mom and one raised my their Dad or both parents is huge.

Meyer is being attacked because he is a fricking weasel who hides behind some nonexistent bullshite medical crap he claims to have to keep his complete lack of integrity from being attacked.
The fact you had Hugh Freeze as a coach should clue you in.

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Been seeing alot of attacks on Urban Meyer for being an a-hole, which I dont think anyone is arguing against. However, in my experience, i have never played for a coach or seen one that could not be considered an a-hole. At least while theyre on the job. When theyre off the field they tend to morph back into normal humans, but on the field, most of them are RUTHLESS.

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People hate Meyer because he's a dick off the field, not because he may be a dick on the field or at practice. He's smug prick, always has been.

Difference between he and Saban is I do believe Saban cares about his players and is nothing but class when speaking about an opponent. Saban gets irritated and can be an a-hole when the media asks him questions he doesn't like, sure, but he doesn't have the level of arrogance just oozing from every word he says like Meyer always has.

They were just men. Coaching, like any other profession where you get power over people, attracts its fair share of assholes, but most of mine were just interesting in teaching us to play football and making sure we behaved well off the field (especially in terms of grades.) They were disciplinarians, of course, but anyone who has ever known or been a teenage male knows that you're not going Dead Poets Society them into being disciplined. You tell them what's expected, how it's expected, and what the consequences will be if you screw it up. Teenage males, especially those in sports, are easier to guide that way. The coaches were never unnecessarily cruel and we in turn accepted their orders as being important to the overall plan.

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Were your coaches kind men?

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Actually, my coach was one of the best, most genuine Christian men I have ever met in my life. His name was Nick Hyder, and among other schools coach at Valdosta high when it was a major team in the state and Country. he won a couple of National Championships and tons of state titles.

Died of a heart attack at Valdosta High School.

Nick Hyder-Biography

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This was one of my High School Head Coaches. I went to two schools.

My team was decent. I wasn’t much better. They let me play with a broke arm in the 10th grade. But in general they were tough but not dicks.

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Difference between he and Saban is I do believe Saban cares about his players and is nothing but class when speaking about an opponent. Saban gets irritated and can be an a-hole when the media asks him questions he doesn't like, sure, but he doesn't have the level of arrogance just oozing from every word he says like Meyer always has.

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Have you even seen one Saban press conference?

My head coach at Cy Fair High School was Warren Trahan. Played for A&M all SWC and then for the Dallas Cowboys. Family was from Louisiana. He was a nice guy, always in a great mood even when something was going wrong. He was awesome.

Offensive line coach was a guy named Ed Pustejovsky. He is now the head coach. H played at A&M also. He was kind of a moody. Cy Fair is doing great in football and has been under him. Seen him do a few interviews and he seems the same. Not a guy you want to get stuck sitting next to a dinner party.