https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/sport...bama-052856860.html?__twitter_impression=true Interesting how much Pruitt is trying to copy this here. Great read.
Is this sort of thing not standard in college football programs? We had almost the exact same thing where I played, and we were a dinky D-3 program. My favorite was when someone accumulated enough points that they had to show up to the field at 6 am on a Sunday to sit and watch while their entire position group ran and did up downs. The ones who got enough points for that usually shaped up immediately or were off the team not long after.
I don’t like the group punishment stuff for an individual messing up. Might as well just put the after this many points these guys are going to beat the shit out of you rule. Because that’s what’s happening if I’m running for someone else being a dumbass.
I dont understand making the individual watch the team as they are punished, unless you are trying to get said player off the team and want it to work itself out.
It's often hard to explain to someone how doing or not doing X, Y, and Z behavior hurts the team. It's easy for that person to shrug it off as not as big of a deal as it's being made out to be. If he's watching his teammates suffer the consequences of his actions with his own two eyes, it has a better chance of sinking in. At least that's what I assume the thought process is behind it.
Yeah i get it. Its also a good way to ostracize a teammate so he quits and stops holding up progress of others.
Did it once to my second best player to a 12U basketball team I was coaching. Went full blown Dean Smith. Sat him in a chair in the middle of the floor while the team ran. Worked like a charm.
My dad did this to me in middle school basketball. We just finished practice and he picked a player (worst guy on the team) and said if he hit a FT we were done and if he missed we had to run suicides. I started running before he even got to the FT line. My dad tore my ass a new one about supporting/having faith in my teammates, sat my ass down, and made everyone else run. I felt like a piece of shit and wasn't very popular for the next week or so.
You have to know your team and who you can get away with it with. And while they were running i stood right beside him and told him it was because he wasn't giving enough effort and that he was too good of a ballplayer. Funny thing is that would have never worked with my best player, but I could get harsher with him than anyone. Its all in knowing your players. We went 8 and 0 that year. Played the second best team in the league next to last week on season and had a 24 to 4 lead at the half. Ref told me later we were the best team he'd ever seen in that gym. Was a fun, fun year. Good team, good kids, good parents. Every now and again you get them and you never forget them.
Like Full Metal Jacket. Then Donofrio flipped out. Made a good comeback from the gunshot and became a great actor.
