Comments about ‘Letter: Bullying in sports needs to stop’

No bullying for a coach to express his displeasure at poor play or mistakes. Unless it is a Ute Conference little league coach. Then this letter might be relevant.

I competed for many years in several sports. Having built a trusting relationship with my coach; caused me to see him as another father. I learned to accept his feedback.
However, the teachers I found were the worst in yelling at students were music teachers.
enrolled in choir in jr high: quit because I got tired of having the teacher yell at us all class.
tried again in high school: had the same experience.
So maybe we should start with the music teachers first.

Vidar, we should start wtih ourselves, as humans, as parents. We need to change the heart first. And 'screaming' at a player for making a mistake is wrong. There has to be coaches out there who do not sit this type of example.

Several years I was going to Utah State in Logan. At that time there were high school foot ball players who took a naked team mate and bound him with duck tape and then forced him outside the dressing room into the hall way of the school for all students to see.

His girl friend at the time didn't have the integrity to help the poor player and was seen snickering. School administrators made an appropriate decision to suspend the football season. Parents of the guilty players complained that recuiters from colleges couldn't come to the high school if the foot ball season was canceled. To the school administrators credit they didn't bow to this pressure. Those players lost the opportunity to further their foot ball careers to the university level and rightfully so.

Their parents of these players seemed oblivious to the fact that their little darlings didn't deserve the priviliges that they once did due to their poor choices.