Rutgers softball players say they were physically, emotionally abused by wife-husband coaching team
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The transgression? The Rutgers softball team had gone $6 over its food travel budget during a stop at a Cracker Barrel in early March 2019.
The punishment? According to multiple players, at their next practice, a group of team members were told to run six, 100-yard wind sprints — one for every dollar over — and each in less than 17 seconds, until some of them were left crying, collapsed or doubled over in exhaustion.
https://www.nj.com/rutgers/2019/10/...and-coaching-team-and-school-did-nothing.html
The punishment? According to multiple players, at their next practice, a group of team members were told to run six, 100-yard wind sprints — one for every dollar over — and each in less than 17 seconds, until some of them were left crying, collapsed or doubled over in exhaustion.
https://www.nj.com/rutgers/2019/10/...and-coaching-team-and-school-did-nothing.html
They were forced to run sprints!!!! Wow, the horror.
What a soft society we’ve become.
What a soft society we’ve become.
In high school football and wresting, getting pushed until people puked was standard.
I read the article and it's complete bullsh*t. Did Hobbs handle it poorly? Absolutely but the meat of the article is ridiculous. They are D1 college athletes getting scholarship money to play softball and they can't run sprints or dive for balls? GTFOH.
I'm afraid there is more to it than your skimpy synopsis.
Go ask theTONS of girls who have transferred out of Ralph Weeklys Tennessee Softball program over the last couple decades. He treats them like dogs,some stay and some don't. He keeps getting good recruits and keeps winning. We are in the Big Ten and the athletes and schools we play against take this stuff seriously and want to actually win games. We are not some rinky dink school in the Patriot League,MAAC,NEC,etc.
is this the twilight zone.....was this sexual abuse?
i don't think so.....is really a about a few bucks at a team meal.....running sprints......this does not pass the smell test.....this woman coached at toledo.was their abuse by her there....did anyone investigate this.....this is a shock to me, if this is true some how.....is this just sour grapes because the last coach was let go....who knows.......why does ru always seem to be getting this shit happening to them....is it about hobbs and the coaching stuff............ureal!
i don't think so.....is really a about a few bucks at a team meal.....running sprints......this does not pass the smell test.....this woman coached at toledo.was their abuse by her there....did anyone investigate this.....this is a shock to me, if this is true some how.....is this just sour grapes because the last coach was let go....who knows.......why does ru always seem to be getting this shit happening to them....is it about hobbs and the coaching stuff............ureal!
I did.
I'd be interested to hear the details of threatening to pull a kids scholarship. The sprints don't seem to be an issue. The verbal insults are a bit off putting but I've heard worse.
The staff seems old school and old school isn't always okay anymore.
I want to hear way more information.
What is the husbands name?
I don't see him listed at the Rutgers team website
Did Hobbs hire her only or both of them as head coach?
I don't see him listed at the Rutgers team website
Did Hobbs hire her only or both of them as head coach?
The article reads extremely one-sided. The truth in a dispute always has at least two faces, depending on perspective, but possibly more too. SL is only giving its' readers one side of the story.
But when Hobbs was given an opportunity to respond, his tirade was absurd and showed poor judgment. The complaint was filed in July; why wasn't the athletic department ready to respond in a precise, professional manner? Even just, "No comment. The matter is with the lawyers."
But when Hobbs was given an opportunity to respond, his tirade was absurd and showed poor judgment. The complaint was filed in July; why wasn't the athletic department ready to respond in a precise, professional manner? Even just, "No comment. The matter is with the lawyers."
My thoughts exactly. Keep the husband off the bus but the rest is not shocking at all. Sounds a bit winy in fact.
Yep, bench warmers who are being recruited over by the new coach are now complaining because the coach is making them work and holding them accountable. 6 100 yard sprints. If you can’t run that even coming off of knee surgery, you need to go play club or intramural sports as D1 is not for you.
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Yup. All girls who left the program because they couldn’t cut it under a championship-caliber HC. Granted the husband needs to watch what he says but the rest is pure bullshit. The one girl is bitching about fielding balls because they were hit too hard? Buh-bye!
A few thoughts. This stuff is probably right on the line & probably crossed over sometimes. The husband may have been a problem. As for old school, I may be the most or one of the most representative of that school on the Board.
Freshman year in college,1960, I was playing football on the JV team. Freshmen couldn't play varsity sports then. We had a former Marine who had coached the Ethiopian track team as our coach. Didn't know shit about football. One day in practice he ripped the helmet off our best running back by far & smashed him across the face. Guy was an older married guy with 2 kids. Very quiet, no wise guy. Have no idea what he may have done. No repercussion whatsoever. After practice & after the backs kicking the shit out of each other running through dummies in endless tackling drills, we would run, culminating in God knows how many wind sprints. Then we had to run up a very long steep hill to our lockers in the athletic building. If you stopped or paused you were kicked off the team. You could crawl however. Guys would be throwing up, crawling through their own puke. Adage-when you don't know how to coach run the piss out of them. How's that for old school?
Played baseball forever. Don't see the point or value of baseball or softball players running endless wind sprints. Maybe Zappa can weigh in on this. Was at an RU baseball practice last year & after practice Littero had these guys run wind sprints. I don't mean some wind sprints but f--n endless wind sprints. Guys doubled over. I thought what the hell is the point of this. Someone is going to get hurt. Sure enough a good ball player, a starter, pulls up with a bad hammie. Then another guy. These coaches buy into all the current fads & practices, many without any positive value.
Freshman year in college,1960, I was playing football on the JV team. Freshmen couldn't play varsity sports then. We had a former Marine who had coached the Ethiopian track team as our coach. Didn't know shit about football. One day in practice he ripped the helmet off our best running back by far & smashed him across the face. Guy was an older married guy with 2 kids. Very quiet, no wise guy. Have no idea what he may have done. No repercussion whatsoever. After practice & after the backs kicking the shit out of each other running through dummies in endless tackling drills, we would run, culminating in God knows how many wind sprints. Then we had to run up a very long steep hill to our lockers in the athletic building. If you stopped or paused you were kicked off the team. You could crawl however. Guys would be throwing up, crawling through their own puke. Adage-when you don't know how to coach run the piss out of them. How's that for old school?
Played baseball forever. Don't see the point or value of baseball or softball players running endless wind sprints. Maybe Zappa can weigh in on this. Was at an RU baseball practice last year & after practice Littero had these guys run wind sprints. I don't mean some wind sprints but f--n endless wind sprints. Guys doubled over. I thought what the hell is the point of this. Someone is going to get hurt. Sure enough a good ball player, a starter, pulls up with a bad hammie. Then another guy. These coaches buy into all the current fads & practices, many without any positive value.
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I'm more than 3 times their age and I may be able to do 1 in 17 seconds. Definitely not 6 in a row.
Some posters NEED TO READ this:
https://rutgers.forums.rivals.com/t...uits-talk-signing-despite-allegations.179574/
https://rutgers.forums.rivals.com/t...uits-talk-signing-despite-allegations.179574/
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