OT - Hazing in high school sports
in the middle of a polite thread and then turns me into the "bad guy" when I aggressively point out that the basis for his post was absurd.
If this is what you have to add to the conversation, then go back to lurking.
Let the increased CTE likelihood dictate it.
Icy Hot in.the jock as a prank one day and having to carry the tackling and blocking dummies out to the field during summer camp was it as far as any sort of "welcome to football" that we got as a freshman, this was back in 1991, have to imagine even that is smashed down now.
Right, I didn't mention that because that was called practice. I was talking about the extracurriculars.
What's the Lucas question about?
worst thing that I recall witnessing directly is when I was a freshman, some of the varsity players locked our starting point guard in one of those big screened lockers before one of our games, and then left. They waited until we were convinced we'd need to find bolt cutters to get him out. More of a prank, really.
But the wrestling team apparently had a 'tradition' that all the freshman got swirlies. I know this because the wrestling coach had to interrupt our practice to get the first aid kit from our coach - not sure how exactly, but they managed to cut some poor kid's head open during his struggles to keep his head out of the toilet. I heard later that the others just let it happen to get it over with and were basically blaming the kid for fighting back...
I don't really recall hearing much worse than that when I was a kid. Maybe I lived in relative shelter? Or things escalated from swirlies to a lot worse stuff since I was in school.
No, it's not normal. I've coached - and waaaaay back in the day, played on - many HS teams, varsity/JV/AAU/travel club etc. - and no, hazing beyond mild joking/rookies carry the towels type of stuff is not normal.
the descripitions, I didn't want to watch that video and didn't before my first comment. Eventually I did, but shut it off when they started jumping and landing on him because it made me sick. WTH?! There was a guy most of us didn't like who showed up on the various teams I was on, but doing something like that to him never would have ocurred to us. He was a teammate and that meant something - and I would never do anything like that to anyone anyhow. I'd like to hope I'd have had the guts to stop it if it ever did - maybe get some of the other guys or something. That was really beastial and the others just stood and watched or filmed it. If I was the coach, to whatever team punishment gets dealt out - and there needs to be team punishment on top of individual punishment - I'd add ripping the rest of the team bad for not doing something to put a stop to it. It's your duty as a human being.