The coach asks the team a question

[N_O_Johnson (imported)]

The following story appeared in the on-line version of the Miami Herald on May 25.

Gulliver Prep coach Lazer Collazo resigns

BY MANNY NAVARRO

mnavarro@herald.com

Gulliver Prep baseball coach Lazer Callazo officialy resigned Wednesday, a week after his alledged involvement of improper behavior towards his players came to light.

''I am doing it for the kids and I am doing it for the school,'' Callazo told the Herald Wednesday morning. "I am not going to coach anymore at the high school or college level. I am going to stay and work at my Hardball Academy and that's all I have to say.''

School officials said Tuesday Callazo had agreed to resign as coach at the beginning of June.

''This is a resignation he is fully aware of,'' Gulliver public relations director Jen Vaida said Tuesday.

According to a Coral Gables police report, Collazo dropped his pants, took out his penis and accused his players of not having the testicular fortitude it takes to play baseball after a loss to Florida Christian on April 7.

''He then,'' according to a Coral Gables police report, "pointed to his penis, testicles and asked the team if they had a set of these or were they equipped with a vagina.''

Collazo, who led Gulliver to the Class 3A state championship last season, did not comment on the allegations.

I like to imagine what would have happened if the team had shown him nine smooth clean-shaven crotches. Rename this team the Gulliver Nullos.

Norman O. Johnson

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Certainly can't do that in today's PC orientated world. I'd like a nickle for everytime a coach has called his team ball less or a bunch of pansies and/or pussys. I just hope his team doesn't have to see a shrink en masse.

[Dave (imported)]

And it's not just PC crap - -

Coaches and adults should not belittle their children's performance by calling them sissies, queers and steers, and all the rest of the names. The same with the phrase "ok, ladies. lets do ..." when referring to a group of men. Would any coack (man or woman) say to a group of girls "OK bitches" or worse? Why do we justify that with boys and young men.

It teaches the wrong behavior to men and boys. It teaches them that women are weak and worthy of abusive dismissal. It's the same as the RAP music use of "Bitches and Hoes" ...

[docs (imported)]

I agree, Dave but the real world of coaching men or boys intrudes. It is testosterone driven...Just check out the recent flap over the San Francisco "Niners" motivational video tape.

[A-1 (imported)]

Bad Behavior...

You know, I am sick and tired of the jock-bastards-coaches blaming all of their bad behavior and lack of sportsmanship on a hormone. Don't they know that they are just training another generation of assholes most of which wll never be professional athletes?

They just use this as an excuse to teach intolerance and lack of respect for their fellow human beings to kids. No wonder kids in school are going crazy and going on killing sprees. They are learning it from "sports" people who are not into sports at all, but are into fear, intimidation and abuse of any person that they deem weaker than them or perhaps even "different". It is for this reason that schools should not allow "sports" but that should be saved for the professionals.

This goes on in female sports, too. Maybe we should just make these idiots go into a room two at a time and not let them out until one is dead. That way, at the end, we would only have to kill one of these crazy motherfuckers...

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