this is so unbelievably pathetic.

http://sports.bostonherald.com/highScho ... eid=180663

Coach fired for telling players to ’check their manhood’
By Associated Press
Friday, February 2, 2007 - Updated: 09:56 AM EST

LEEDS, Maine - A high school coach who told his players at halftime to reach into their pants to ”check their manhood” before returning to the basketball court was fired.

Mike Remillard was confronted after Leavitt Area High School Principal Patrick Hartnett learned that the coach told his players that ”tonight’s game was about who had the biggest (male genitalia) in town,” Hartnett said in a statement.

”He then required his players to all stand up and put their hands down their pants and check their manhood,” Hartnett said. All but one player followed the coach’s instructions.



Hartnett’s statement was read by School Administrative District 52 Superintendent Thomas J. Hanson during Thursday night’s regularly scheduled school board meeting. The statement came a day after the coach was dismissed.

In the statement, Harnett said Remillard confirmed that the boys were asked to check their privates. Asked if that was an appropriate motivational tactic, the coach responded by saying ”we won,” Harnett said. That’s when Remillard was fired.

Remillard, who cites Texas Tech basketball coach Bob Knight as his role model, told the Sun Journal newspaper that having his players ”check their manhood” is ”normal locker room banter from Fort Kent, Maine, to San Diego, California.”

Nonetheless, he said he shouldn’t have done it.

”Was that tactic appropriate? No. And I’m paying the price for it,” he said. ”I can pay that price because I accept my responsibility, and I’m being accountable.”

But he denied responding ”we won” when asked about the tactic. ”What I told him was, the tactic worked,” Remillard said. ”We played like the young men that we were or could be. That’s what I said. I never said, ’Well, we won.”'

Hartnett said it wasn’t the first time school officials had met with Remillard to discuss inappropriate comments the coach made to his players.

The firing happened Wednesday when the school board went into executive session. Hartnett said he felt compelled to make a statement because of publicity surrounding the firing.

The firing had nothing to do with an incident in which Remillard alleged he was assaulted by the father of a varsity player after Leavitt’s win at Morse High School in Bath on Tuesday.

A Bath police officer on duty at the game, who responded to a report of the disturbance, is still investigating the incident. Remillard reiterated Thursday night that he plans to press charges against the parent.

I don't have a problem with the guy being fired. There's no reason to have a bunch of kids simultaneously grope their balls in the locker room. They're going to eventually do it on their own anyway.

you have got to be kidding me. if you're going to fire a coach for something like this then i would wager somewhere on the order of 75% of the coaches in America deserve to be fired.

I don't think 3/4 of the coaches in America make their players grab their balls in some neanderthaloid ritual. I mean, really, it's some small-time basketball team in Maine. It's not like the guy is getting fired from North Carolina. He can still teach, as far as I know, he just can't make the extra couple thousand bucks imagining himself as Bob Knight, Jr.

dude - it's a frigging cock metaphor. every coach in the history of sports has used it.

the 75% number i threw out doesn't mean this "ritual" in particular, but rather every locker room has talk or actions that many people would probably find mildly offensive. did you play sports on any level? if so i find it extremely difficult to imagine you wouldn't concede that.

I don't care about the talk. It's that he actually made them basically fondle themselves that is the problem. Yes, I've been in plenty of high school sports locker rooms. Some are disgusting (esp. wrestling), some are full up with good-natured ultra maleness, and on and on. It is usually kept within the group of players. When a supposedly mature coach enters into it he should know what lines can't be crossed. And this is one. A coach simply shouldn't make his players grab their balls as a group. It's weird and sexist, but beyond that horribly unsanitary.

quite a lot can be done to motivate using metaphor.......

you act as if he led them in a circle jerk or something.

I could say you act like he was fired from a million dollar a year position, but I won't because that'd be just as ridiculous as the words you put in my posts.

i agree with pvw. the metaphor is fine. forcing kids to grab themselves serves no further purpose. they know where there sacks are.

There is a big difference between telling your players to "check their manhood" and actually forcing them to put their hands down their pants. I would be extremely surprised if he actually did the latter. It sounds like a typical news slant that is making it seem like he literally told them to do that. Coaches say all sorts of things that aren't meant literally. Suck it the fuck up, pull your heads out of your asses, etc.

People are such fucking crybabies.

I have my hands on my junk about 83% of the day anyhow.

i have my hands on i_i's junk the other 17%

Eric, are you going to let this creep besmirch my honor like this?

Someone's gotta wash your balls.

You've been on a roll lately.

that's what i'm talkin' bout. unsanitary. wtf1

I keep my boys clean and styled. wtf2

jeez Eric, 15 and 16 year old boys are pussies? That's some strong talk.