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Try this guy...

Coach humiliates middle school student at awards banquet

The 13-year-old boy's coach called him just before last month's team banquet and told him to make sure that he attended the event because he was getting a special trophy, the boy's father said. However, the teen was not given any details about the award.

At the event, the boy watched as all of his Pleasantville Middle School teammates received trophies or certificates. He was then called up to receive his award, and a coach told the crowd that the boy was being honored because "he begged to get in the game, and all he did was whine."

The trophy had a silver figure of a baby atop a pedestal engraved with the boy's name, which was spelled incorrectly. Family members said the teen - an honor roll student - was so embarrassed that he stayed home from school on the following Monday.

It's an old story (2004) that I found while looking up some other stuff.

Can you imagine a grown man going to these lengths just to humiliate a thirteen-year-old kid? And for what? Because he wanted to play? Yeesh :mad:

The coach was named James Guillen. Despite a recommendation for complete dismissal from the school board, he didn't lose his job as a teacher. He was, however, banned from ever coaching again (and rightly so)

The boy - Terrence Philo Jr - was later honored and the coach forced to give a very public apology. Sadly though, it didn't end well for him. At age 19, he was arrested for assault, drug possession and armed robbery after leading police on a high speed chase.

You could probably make a good argument for Guillen being partially responsible for the kid turning out this way, but in the end, he still has to take responsibility for his own actions.

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You could probably make a good argument for Guillen being partially responsible for the kid turning out this way, but in the end, he still has to take responsibility for his own actions.

I hope nobody is trying to make that BS argument.

I can see it having a slight impact while he is still attending that specific school, but to try and blame the coach 5years after the kid is probably in college is BS.

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I hope nobody is trying to make that BS argument.

I can see it having a slight impact while he is still attending that specific school, but to try and blame the coach 5years after the kid is probably in college is BS.

You'd have to say it affected him. From what I've read he never played sports after that, and sports has kept many a kid out of trouble.

Still, we've all had humiliating experiences (likely a good many of them happening at school). It's not an excuse for becoming a criminal. If I were on the jury that tried him, I'd say "that's an awful story, but it doesn't justify you hurting someone else" :nonod:

I'd like to think his dad would have encouraged him to go back to sports, try harder, be the best he could, and five years down the road be able to rub the jackhole coach's nose in it. That would have been a much better way to go.

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Michael Wilbon agrees (from PTI at the time of the incident):

Speaking of Douche Bags & turds theres a pair right there.

Fired for what, everyone is to quick to just fire people these days.

What the coach did was wrong yes, IMO it shouldn't of been done publicly but Coaches giving players a hard time is a part of sports if you can't take it then don't play.

Getting embarrassed is part of growing up, Wilbons take that it "damaged" the kid is BS

IMO it's no more damaging then these EVERYONE'S A WINNER awards were even the last place loser gets a ribbon or trophy, sorry life don't work that way and the first time your loser kid fails and his boss or professor doesn't congradulate him with a shiny blue ribbon he will fold in shock.

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I agree PC that the "everyone's a winner" crap is stupid, but to purposefully embarrass a 13 y.o. kid in front of his peers like this is way across the line... kids are pretty tender and impressionable at that age.

All I know is that if that happened to my son, it would have been fisticuffs right then.

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I learned a lot of interesting words and phrases from my Pee Wee Football coach.

I hate the 'everyone wins" mentality too. It's stupid. And yes, coaches do a lot of negative reinforcement, but that's on the field. This is at a sports banquet.

At public functions like this, you should honor the kids who do well, not deride the kids who did poorly.

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