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I skimmed through the report.  

I wonder how much of that mirrors what occurs with players "in the dog house" on a typical football team.  Say Harbaugh/Sherman or Baldwin.

In the doghouse for what? The wrong ethnicity? English not being a swimmer's first language? Being hurt? 

I found the report very, very disturbing beyond just the above. Her actions with many swimmers went way past being a tough coach, and ventured deep into bullying and mental / emotional abuse. Sadly, she's not the only coach out there who's lost sight of the line between the two.

I don't know the situation.  This is the first I've heard of this coach, and I'm not condoning the behavior.  Maybe every swimmer of certain ethnicity was in her doghouse.  All identifying details of the athletes were redacted from the report.

But I assume that swearing and yelling at players is routine on many teams, as is questioning their effort, belittling, and lots of other stuff like that.  

If a coach is accused (rightly or wrongly) of any number of things, I suspect that a similar laundry list of transgressions to those cited in the report could be generated for many.

The most egregious specific things I recall reading about her was that she used a form of N-word in mocking rap, shared personal information about individual athletes, and pressured players to push through injury.  The last and maybe first, of those I could easily imagine have occurred often and don't make light of day.

More generally, if an institution doesn't want its coaches to be jerks and damage kids who aren't helping them win, they should make clear that they don't tolerate that behavior from coaches, rather than tolerating it for many years and then firing the coach for what they've done all along.

[murky]

I skimmed through the report.  

I wonder how much of that mirrors what occurs with players "in the dog house" on a typical football team.  Say Harbaugh/Sherman or Baldwin.

In the doghouse for what? The wrong ethnicity? English not being a swimmer's first language? Being hurt? 

I found the report very, very disturbing beyond just the above. Her actions with many swimmers went way past being a tough coach, and ventured deep into bullying and mental / emotional abuse. Sadly, she's not the only coach out there who's lost sight of the line between the two.

I don't know the situation.  This is the first I've heard of this coach, and I'm not condoning the behavior.  Maybe every swimmer of certain ethnicity was in her doghouse.  All identifying details of the athletes were redacted from the report.

But I assume that swearing and yelling at players is routine on many teams, as is questioning their effort, belittling, and lots of other stuff like that.  

If a coach is accused (rightly or wrongly) of any number of things, I suspect that a similar laundry list of transgressions to those cited in the report could be generated for many.

The most egregious specific things I recall reading about her was that she used a form of N-word in mocking rap, shared personal information about individual athletes, and pressured players to push through injury.  The last and maybe first, of those I could easily imagine have occurred often and don't make light of day.

More generally, if an institution doesn't want its coaches to be jerks and damage kids who aren't helping them win, they should make clear that they don't tolerate that behavior from coaches, rather than tolerating it for many years and then firing the coach for what they've done all along.