06-23-2015, 01:03 PM
I am thankful Stanford football players with NFL parents are apparently not as actively involved in the voluntary work-outs.
At all levels of sports you will find some parents that are a bit too involved. As a parent/coach/ref in youth sports I work tirelessly to get my parents to stay civil, but it is often a challenge even with weekend soccer or flag football in youth leagues. My rather well off town has even had parents arrested at U-10 soccer games. U10 recreational soccer! Some parent was disruptive enough to get arrested in front of 3rd graders, and their own child. Crazy.
From what I have seen the UCLA strength coach appears to serve a role in the UCLA process. He seems to tell all of the players that they are too soft, they need to work harder if they want to win the Pac-12, etc. etc.
Seems like a certain opinionated and successful parent didn't like hearing that his son was a slacker. This stuff probably happens all over CFB, as it certainly happens in youth sports across the USA. The only news was that P Diddy took it far enough to get arrested, and he was famous enough for the media to care.
UCLA likely hopes the story will go away, and it will as soon as a college football player at another program gets arrested for a DUI or domestic violence.
At all levels of sports you will find some parents that are a bit too involved. As a parent/coach/ref in youth sports I work tirelessly to get my parents to stay civil, but it is often a challenge even with weekend soccer or flag football in youth leagues. My rather well off town has even had parents arrested at U-10 soccer games. U10 recreational soccer! Some parent was disruptive enough to get arrested in front of 3rd graders, and their own child. Crazy.
From what I have seen the UCLA strength coach appears to serve a role in the UCLA process. He seems to tell all of the players that they are too soft, they need to work harder if they want to win the Pac-12, etc. etc.
Seems like a certain opinionated and successful parent didn't like hearing that his son was a slacker. This stuff probably happens all over CFB, as it certainly happens in youth sports across the USA. The only news was that P Diddy took it far enough to get arrested, and he was famous enough for the media to care.
UCLA likely hopes the story will go away, and it will as soon as a college football player at another program gets arrested for a DUI or domestic violence.