The Difference Between Democrats and Republicans?

Earlier this week, I posted this story about Galen Wilson, USMC.

Now, I find this useless pile of drivel called Democratic Underground, denouncing the story!

Be advised, the moderator of this board follows the "progressive" thinking of people like DanielUA over at Young Philly Progressives,..that is, he will delete any postings or comments contrary to his POV. (Yeah,..we need THAT in DC, right?)

Then comes this story with a defintive leftist backstory:

When are tough coaches too tough?
By Jan Hefler
Inquirer Staff Writer

Carl Heil believes in winning. So much that he took the varsity boys' soccer team at Kingsway Regional High School to the South Jersey playoff semifinals in three of the four years he coached the team.

But now he's out of a job and angry. The Kingsway Board of Education in Gloucester County fired him two weeks ago after receiving a litany of complaints from parents. Members said he had berated players for mistakes, benched players for being too short, reneged on a promise to let a cut player be a substitute, and forcefully yanked a player from the field while the player was celebrating a goal.

Heil dismissed the allegations as lies or exaggerations.

"Do they want a winning program, or do they just want a happy team?" Heil asked. "My goal has always been to put on a successful program first, and the kids are second, a close second."

His remark rekindles the debate over how far a school coach should go to win. And should parents, especially those on school boards, have the power to fire a coach if some kids are unhappy?

Heil has joined a long line of coaches whose tough and competitive ways have evoked ire - but also inspired supporters to rally to their cause when jobs are threatened.

There was Joe Falana, the boys' soccer coach at Haddonfield Memorial High School, who recorded his 500th victory at the school last season. He faced removal in 2004 after some parents wrote letters to the board, complaining that he swore and yelled at players. Other soccer parents countered with letters saying he was stern but fair, and the board renewed his contract.

And there was the middle school basketball coach in Pleasantville, Atlantic County, who made headlines two years ago when he handed a "Crybaby Award" to a 13-year-old player at a sports banquet. The coach was removed from his basketball position.


I've posted this story because I think it highlights a definitive mindset that is becoming more prevalent in suburbia, and by extension, our society in whole.


Gone are the days when you actually played sports during your formative years TO WIN!. Nowadays, an 8-team league will finish each season with a round-robin "playoff" and reward each team's players "just for showing up." I'm not talking about 7, 8, and 9-years old who play T-ball and learn the fundementals of real sports (soccer is just 20 kids standing around killing the grass, BTW), I'm talking about teens who are now learning the life lessons that they will carry into adulthood.


That's the same mindset their liberal parents want to foist upon their impressionable adolescents - its OK just to show up. Forget about winning: that's barbaric and war-like and it gets you nowhere in this world.


That is,...until someone flies a jet airplane into a building!

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