Purple Hair wrote:
EZ10Miler wrote:If this is just the coach being an @ss then he needs to pull back on this.
How is he benefiting the kid, the team, or the school by having arbitrary rules like this for the team. What real lesson is he teaching?
A coach can "teach" a lot more if they actually HAVE kids on a team rather than just kick people off. Once they're off the team you have ZERO influence.
The coaches job is to educate, and prepare these kids for the real world. Setting an example that pink hair is not acceptable as part of a team is a good lesson for the kid to learn. Personally I wouldn't want to associate myself as an athlete with a kid that wore his hair like an idiot. How many other students quit the team or don't go out for the sport because they don't want to look like idiots. It makes the entire group look like they are undisciplined. Perception is reality and we are who we associate ourselves with.
Why would you measure discipline by any metric other than performance? My high school XC team showed that we were disciplined by having our first ten guys finish before the other team's top runner in dual meets with area teams. We showed that we were disciplined by finishing in the top 5 at states every year I was there. I showed that I was disciplined by being the number one runner on a state champion team. We didn't go around worrying about who was wearing what kind of hair style. We just wanted to fucking win.
Hair style is the kind of thing that a loser pretends is a sign of discipline. People who won't make the effort necessary to prove themselves in competition need to find trivial things to point to to show that they are serious so that they can say "sure I ran a 2:15 800m and the fastest girl in the girls' race ran faster than me, but look at the way I'm dressed! Look at my hair! I'm so disciplined!"
Discipline is proven by performance. Nothing else.