Knox County Coaches Information: Wrong?

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  1. Tenacious D

    Tenacious D The law is of supreme importance, or no importance

    While recently looking into doing some youth-league coaching in Knox County, I was pleased to note that they placed a tremendous emphasis on the Six Pillars of Sportsmanship approach. Essentially, it is intended to teach kids about concepts that are pertinent to their competing in a sport, but which also have larger life applications (trustworthiness, respect, etc.). But then I noticed something on the official forms that gave me pause.

    See if you can spot my area of concern, and that which I don't think I could consent:

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    Here's a link to the actual website, for those who my be wondering if this is a joke (it's not): http://www.knoxcounty.org/parks/pdfs/coachesmanual.pdf

    P.S. - Yes, I sent a nice "heads-up" note to the site admin.
     

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  2. volfanjo

    volfanjo Chieftain

    Donovan McNabb a caring teammate? Ask T.O. how he feels about that.
     
  3. kptvol

    kptvol Super Moderator

    Ugh. Also, did you cut it off or are there really only five compomnents of the Six Pillars.
     
  4. volfanbill

    volfanbill Active Member

    the last one copied and pasted:
    C itizenship- Pat Tillman, David Robinson, Steve Nash
    Teaching Idea- Picking up your and others trash around the field or gym. Help out on a community project as a team or organization.
     
  5. cotton

    cotton Stand-up Philosopher

    Playin' by the rules like Bruce.

    There's a swiperboy lyric in there somewhere.
     
  6. NYY

    NYY Super Moderator

    The Ken Sparks one is a close second for the Ridiculousness Award that Bruce won in this article.
     
  7. IP

    IP Super Moderator

    Obviously the Pearl one is outdated.
     
  8. volfanjo

    volfanjo Chieftain

    Now we are teaching kids to idolize Canadians?
     
  9. IP

    IP Super Moderator

    racist.
     
  10. CardinalVol

    CardinalVol Uncultured, non-diverse mod

    Respect Bear Bryant?

    In Knoxville?

    Really?
     
  11. The Dooz

    The Dooz Super Moderator

    what are you looking to coach? head coach? i'd love to do an assistant gig coaching kids. baseball or soccer i don't care.
     
  12. WM

    WM Active Member

    Wooden played by the rules?
     
  13. Tenacious D

    Tenacious D The law is of supreme importance, or no importance

    Dooz -
    Youth football. I don't know enough about either soccer or baseball to contribute.

    I've also thought about refereeing some games, but won't for fear of ejecting about 92% of all parents.
     
  14. volfanjo

    volfanjo Chieftain

    A penchant for ejecting/banning people? Sounds like a requisite skill to be a message board mod. Haha.
     
  15. NYY

    NYY Super Moderator

    Well played Jo.
     
  16. Tenacious D

    Tenacious D The law is of supreme importance, or no importance

    Very well played, Jo.

    And F you, NYY.
     
  17. hatvol96

    hatvol96 Well-Known Member

    Using Pearl and Wooden as examples of abiding by the rules is like using Bill Clinton and Eliot Spitzer as paragons of marital fidelity.
     
  18. VOLFREAK11

    VOLFREAK11 New Member

    Its the easiest money you'll ever make. I have never done football but I've umped 5-12 year old baseball for the past 3 years and made the hell out of money. One of my teachers from high school wanted me to get into doing high school and maybe college umping, I may try it in the future when I'm out of college and the military.
     

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