Share your own personal coach abuse stories here . . .

[feralchat]

As a skinny little freshman at a small high school, which still played 11-man in those days, coach literally picked me up and threw me into the onrushing star player and future Navy Seal. I flew backward, hitting my head in a whiplash motion on the turf. Coach was immediately concerned I'd had a concussion. I was OK, but shaken.

[Rick Daris]

Freshamn football at MHS.  We didn't have a soul on the team that could kick and my childhood hero was Steve Willis.  So enter the right tackle as the kicker.  We were practicing kickoff coverage one day and I kicked the ball, hung back like a kicker does and got blindsided.  Knocked my flat on my face.  I let out a F&$^ pretty loud for sure.  I was ripped off the ground by the coach who was a good foot shorter than me and built like Mangino (manhattanites know who this is).  He proceeded to make my one work look small, the facemask grab and yank, pushing me around etc.  "You want to be the king of crap?"  I was running laps and sprints the rest of the afternoon.  I would say it was pretty well deserved.

What if Tony would have said something like: "If you're gonna talk like that why don't you go back to the hood and hang out with your hommies?"

Because that's a whole different deal than getting grabbed by the facemask and running a few sprints.

Prolly wouldn''t care 'cause I'm white.

 

same school and class as catdoctor, different coach (not my coach for any sports but was my PE teacher and weightlifting teacher), 3 stories...

1) with PE/weightlifting teacher outside in ball field walking inside. he said something like "i ain't got none of those." i then said "well...i guess we now know why you are a PE teacher." he looked at me for two seconds, grabbed me, picked me up, body slammed me onto the field and repeatedly slammed my head against the ground.

2) someone threw a dirty towel on him when his back was turned in the weightlifting room. he turned around and saw three people. i was one (i did not throw the towel). he chased me down. grabbed me and repeatedly slammed my head against the ground. guess it was his "go to"

3) friends birthday. weightlifting room again. he grabs my friend by the balls, holds him down, takes the copenhagen or whatever out of his mouth and inserts it into my friends mouth.

all the same guy who may or may not have been the football coach at mhs a year or two ago.

I wondered what kind of lies must have been flying around for him to get fired.  Thanks!

mods,

can we get an mhs version of the powertard logo? maybe an indian in a wheelchair w/ a flattened back of head and one slightly droopy eye. tia.

[eman]

As a junior high basketball player in a town in NW Kansas, our coach used to shower with us at the end of every practice. Didn't really occur to me at the time how strange this actually was. That's not really the abuse part. His scrotum was the size of Santa's bag of toys in a Wal-Mart Christmas ad. I, like many of my teammates, remain traumatized to this day.

[Super PurpleCat]

 

I think I just entered the Twilight Zone reading this.

 

[sonofdaxjones]

We'll need to up eman's Thorazine dose.

[Ginger]

Great thread.

My wrestling coach was an badass. He (while on the juice) benched 520 in college and his brother wrestled at nubb. Anyway, we really liked this guy, but some days he would just beat the crap out of us. One day we decided that we were going to jump him and return the favor. Instead the team laid back while me and our 215lber got murdered. By the time the rest of the team decided to help the 300lb fatass had a tight waist on me that was compounded by their dogpile. I may or may not have crap my pants. 

[Stupid Fitz]

Pee Wee football.  Mosquitoes were everywhere biting the frack out of us.  We kept jumping around to keep from getting bit.  Coach goes, "everyone stop!!!!!"  Then he ran to his car, got a can of fracking Raid, and sprayed us all down. 

[catzacker]

these aren't abuse, really, and they weren't personal, I just witnessed them:

(1)  junior year, football...thursday practice, which is pretty much just a walkthrough practice, just upper shells...anyway, the offense is looking like crap, messing up and stuff, they're going against the scout team defense  ...coach stops a play as the OL is walking up to the LOS, comes in screaming like hell cussing all the offense up and down and praising the scout team D...he then turns and says something like "f*ck it, we won't use the ball" and just kicks the ball as hard as he can...but it only went about 3 feet before it was buried squarely in poor Jimmy's crotch...Jimmy falls down to the ground immediately and is crying loudly (this is hilarious, btw), coach blows the whistle, says "sorry jim, walk it off" and then asks for trainers to escort jim off the field.

(2)  freshman year, basketball....we've had a crappy practice and coach is sick of it, so he says, "we've got 45 minutes left, if we can't practice well, we'll run well" and we just start doing gasers...Geoff begins to drag behind after about 10 minutes of this...we're all waiting for him at the baseline and he's actually starting to really slow up...coach basically calls him a pussy..coach tells Geoff to go sit over on the bleachers...Geoff sits down and then falls over and passes out (he has a heart condition thingy that was unknow until that time) and the coach yells for someone to go call 911 and then proceed to give him cpr, we're all standing around and someone   says "if Geoff dies, do you think we're done with practice?", after that Geoff throws up in the coaches mouth while coach is giving him cpr and everyone begins bursting out in laughter.  

[Thin Blue Line]

While saying something, that I'm sure was all in fun to my HS basketball coach, I find that said coach has grabbed both of my thumbs and bent them downward so that they are both touching my forearms. Things may, or may not, have gone badly for me after that. Never played another year after that. Wrists still hurt when it's going to rain.

Still can't beat catzacker, though.

[Dirty Sanchez]

2nd week of 8th grade football I hurt my back on a tackling drill.  Kept practicing even though it hurt like a bitch.  Was doing drills later on practicing firing off the line.  It hurt to be in a set position, so I'd come up too fast to a standing position.  Coach hollered that it hurts more to move around like that than stay down.  Like he'd know.

Turns out I had seriously f'd up my back. Took several trips to the chiro to get it to pop back in place, but it still hurt.  Couldn't walk up stairs forward for a week, much less run.  Needless to say that was the end of my 8th grade season.

[Dirty Sanchez]

Our long-time basketball coach was known as having a bit of a temper. Not violent, just yelled.  Then he yelled at the wrong parent's kid in my class and he was forced out just 2 years after winning a state championship.  My guess is the principal didn't want his son, who was going to be a freshman the next year, to be yelled at by the mean coach.  A year later the principal took a job in Salina so his kid didn't have to be in a lowly 4A school.

[ksudrew]

high school fb coach was also freshman pe teacher - hated kids that didn't go out for fb.

friend of mine, not a fb player, tore his acl and damaged cartiledge as well in a collision at 1st base in pe softball game.  was laying on the ground in extreme pain. 

fb coach/pe teacher called him a pussy and told him to get up walk it off.  couldn't hardly walk so coach told him to run it off and sent him four laps aroud the 1/4 mile track laughing all the while.   

the rest of us were 

friend spent the next few months in cast/on crutches 

none of us freshmen said anything to anybody - afraid fb coach/pe teacher would find out and kill us

fb coach/pe teacher died an early death - massive heart attack 

[jbkx]

H.S. D-Coord was a raging coke head that grew up in New Jersey and knew how to handle himself (a crazy mofo that intimidated every kid on the team).  The head coach called my number for a double tight near the goal line and I didn't hear him (I believe I was gawking at some skank) so he sends in another kid.  Coked up coach does the mask grab and nearly yanks my head off while  showering me with krank spit.  We score on the play and he starts in on me about the other kid being "instant offense" and that I was useless.  A few months later his truck tires lost their air somehow.

[SkinnyBenny]

There was this A-hole coach on the MHS sophomore team who was just a ginormo douche nozzle.  One d00d on the team keyed his truck bigtime (take that), but every one of his players who hated him got the last laugh when he got fired and arrested for stealing seven computers from the high school and keeping them in his garage. 

I recently saw him in a seat near mine at a KhazzouQATS game and had TrustTheDust take a picture of me playing air-computer with a worried look on my face and him in the background.  Needless to say, I am still laughing about Benjamin Trujillo going to the big house for stealing 7 (7!) 'puters and just letting them hang out in his garage.

 

[RU4KSU2]

Our JH B Ball coach go so mad at halftime once that he threw his clipboard on the floor (it was the old chalk kind, not the new dry erase white ones)  ... it hit my best friend in the foot as it broke into peices on the ground.  Dale's foot was ok, but we were all.... 

[fatty fat fat]

holy crap. why are hs ftball coaches such dicks.

[Thin Blue Line]

holy crap. why are hs ftball coaches such dicks.

Latent homosexuality/pedophilia

[SkinnyBenny]

High school tennis coaches are 1M x better, amirite?

[jrod06]

While playing for the Brooks Barta in the state championship game my senior, it was tied in the fourth right b4 overtime. I was starting LB and and it was like 4th and3 and the other team took a time out and when we all came back out onto the field i did what the captin should do. I counted heads to make sure we had 11. The thing is I only counted 10 and I counted like 4 times and I was freaking out cause they werent in punt formation. So here I am like screaming for a t/o and I dont get one and luckily they punt the ball rugby style. Well the thing is nobody let me know that we had a safety like FORTY yards back and one other thing......we didn't have any time outs left.
See Barta is a pretty intense guy in practice and in the lockeroom, but on the sidline he acts like snyder. But after that play he almost taclked me and picked me up by the facemask with the strength like he was still in his playing days. He called me a fracking idiot and said "we dont have any FRACKING timeouts!!!"
I was very
Thought I was gonna die, but luckily we won the game in double overtime and went undefeated state champs.

[Bookcat]

While playing for the Brooks Barta in the state championship game my senior, it was tied in the fourth right b4 overtime. I was starting LB and and it was like 4th and3 and the other team took a time out and when we all came back out onto the field i did what the captin should do. I counted heads to make sure we had 11. The thing is I only counted 10 and I counted like 4 times and I was freaking out cause they werent in punt formation. So here I am like screaming for a t/o and I dont get one and luckily they punt the ball rugby style. Well the thing is nobody let me know that we had a safety like FORTY yards back and one other thing......we didn't have any time outs left.
See Barta is a pretty intense guy in practice and in the lockeroom, but on the sidline he acts like snyder. But after that play he almost taclked me and picked me up by the facemask with the strength like he was still in his playing days. He called me a fracking idiot and said "we dont have any FRACKING timeouts!!!"
I was very
Thought I was gonna die, but luckily we won the game in double overtime and went undefeated state champs.

THAT WAS YOU!???!!! 

[jrod06]

While playing for the Brooks Barta in the state championship game my senior, it was tied in the fourth right b4 overtime. I was starting LB and and it was like 4th and3 and the other team took a time out and when we all came back out onto the field i did what the captin should do. I counted heads to make sure we had 11. The thing is I only counted 10 and I counted like 4 times and I was freaking out cause they werent in punt formation. So here I am like screaming for a t/o and I dont get one and luckily they punt the ball rugby style. Well the thing is nobody let me know that we had a safety like FORTY yards back and one other thing......we didn't have any time outs left.
See Barta is a pretty intense guy in practice and in the lockeroom, but on the sidline he acts like snyder. But after that play he almost taclked me and picked me up by the facemask with the strength like he was still in his playing days. He called me a fracking idiot and said "we dont have any FRACKING timeouts!!!"
I was very
Thought I was gonna die, but luckily we won the game in double overtime and went undefeated state champs.

THAT WAS YOU!???!!! 

Yes and if you are being serious about being at the game or just in the know, pm me.

[SkinnyBenny]

One time Coach Kelly put some serious pressure on me at the end of practice by saying that the final point was for all the babes and all the bucks and all the trophies and cars.  I was all   and thought the mental intimidation was highly uncalled for.

[fatty fat fat]

One time Coach Kelly put some serious pressure on me at the end of practice by saying that the final point was for all the babes and all the bucks and all the trophies and cars.  I was all  and thought the mental intimidation was highly uncalled for.

hahahahaha!!

[KCFDcat]

HS baseball coach loved to wear short shorts and we were always amazed at how large his package appeared to be. we didn't buy it though and always joked that he but a sausage down his pants before practice everyday. well he must have heard us because one day he put his foot up on the dugout bench and "accidentally" let it fall out.  swear to god he had a &@#%ing anaconda in his shorts.  i mean the thing was a monster.  i have felt inadequate ever since

[The42Yardstick]

One time, a coach yelled at me to "get my pads lower" and "get my head in the game"

 

[PCR]

I never had a coach yell at me.  And that's why I suck at sports.

[steve dave]

Baseball coach stories tend to be the best imo.  I think football coaches, deep down, are all pussies who want everyone to think they aren't by traumatizing kids.  Baseball coaches, while they will traumatize the f^ck out of kids, don't really care about appearing to be tough and are usually good for buying beer after practice.  These are obviously broad generalizations but I think they hold true.  Maybe this is just my personal football/baseball coach experiences though.

[sonofdaxjones]

Good thoughts Dave.

In High School our football coach was a sadistic a-hole, the baseball coach while not being sadistic was one of those mind game kind of guys, and was definitely not a "beer buyer". 

[scottb1987]

There was this A-hole coach on the MHS sophomore team who was just a ginormo douche nozzle.  One d00d on the team keyed his truck bigtime (take that), but every one of his players who hated him got the last laugh when he got fired and arrested for stealing seven computers from the high school and keeping them in his garage. 

I recently saw him in a seat near mine at a KhazzouQATS game and had TrustTheDust take a picture of me playing air-computer with a worried look on my face and him in the background.  Needless to say, I am still laughing about Benjamin Trujillo going to the big house for stealing 7 (7!) 'puters and just letting them hang out in his garage.

 

I had him my sophomore year as well. Tried to act badass but it's hard to do that when you're a freshman health teacher.

[steve dave]

Baseball coach stories tend to be the best imo.  I think football coaches, deep down, are all pussies who want everyone to think they aren't by traumatizing kids.  Baseball coaches, while they will traumatize the f^ck out of kids, don't really care about appearing to be tough and are usually good for buying beer after practice.  These are obviously broad generalizations but I think they hold true.  Maybe this is just my personal football/baseball coach experiences though.

I should qualify this by saying that football coaches who traumatize kids are pussies deep down.  Not all football coaches.