He is definitely old school and as great of a coach as he is and as great of a person as he is, it is difficult to get the best results with todays kids and their mentality.
Care to expound?
Kids today are not taught to fight. That is a bad trait these days. Boys are not taught to be tough. They are taught to listen and be understanding etc. Most of the fights at high schools are between girls. The girls are taught to be aggressive, chase their dreams, be leaders, and be assertive. Boys are taught to not be aggressive and to take other people's feelings into account.
What? You lost me with those fancy words.
I see where you're coming from. I hadn't taken Coach Smith reference to 'lack of fight' as literally. I thought he was referring to fortitude in persevering thru a situation versus looking for things to come easily, a la more instant gratification.
If the emphasis is currently on mental toughness we are failing mightily on the subject we are emphasizing. If the result of focusing on mental toughness is safe spaces, cry closets, and stress cards we are failing in a big way.
I believe most of those constructs ("safe spaces, cry closets, and stress cards") are to bridge the gap from an environment perceived as rampant with 'toxic masculinity' to some future where norms of civility make them unnecessary.
If it makes you feel good, keep telling yourself this
the irony of this is that you geezers were the ones who raised us. so if we are soft (we aren't), that's on you bud. nice going.
My kids are far from soft, due to how they were raised. Had I raised you, you'd not be either. Keep playing video games in your parents basement.
worked and supported myself my whole adult life. you're a landlord, a leach on society. you don't get to lecture people who work and add value to the world like myself.
That’s not true. My great grandfather never thought that my grandfather’s generation was soft. My grandfather went through the Great Depression and WWII. Now your statement is probably true ever since that generation. We have enjoyed nearly a hundred years of prosperity so it’s rather natural that every generation has gotten softer.
You're too funny, and naive.
I know you think you're making good/funny points, but all your posts like this are really just cringeworthy and proof that wealth can't buy intelligence
like a conservative facebook meme page came to life. touch grass old man lmao
*taps sign*
just needs to be on a grainy jpg image of a minion and it would be so perfectly conservative facebook
I agree that the older generation usually think the younger generation has it easy, especially after all the inventions on the past 150 years. That being said, I run a painting company and it is almost impossible to find someone under the age of 30 who will work as hard as the 40 plus year olds work. Would I want to work hard if I did not have to? Probably not.
You do realize you can also find newspaper articles, books, etc with authors who are very optimistic about younger generations right? For the past 100 years each generation has gotten increasingly softer. It’s quantifiably true. It can be explained away largely by technological advances but some believe it’s deeper than that.
I mean, FWIW, you can have each generation after the next being slightly more unruly and "soft", so each generation making that claim wouldn't contradict it. However, as JS pointed out, there would be no one to blame but the parents that raised that generation. So really, the kids becoming softer, less disciplined, etc over time would be a by-product of the parents becoming softer over time. That and the external environment.
That was nice!!! The man did say he relishes a good street fight. He don't lie.
If parents had complete control over their kids you could blame all the parents and for sure some of it is on the parents but the world in general is a much different place providing much different influence now than say 1978. Influence from schools and from technology changes which includes social media are very impactful. Societal norms are also impactful. If a kid got out of line in public in 1978 he was likely to get his ass beat on the spot. The other people present would question why the parents let a kid act up before they question spanking the kids ass. Now days someone calls the cops on the old man. Put it this way. If I did the exact same parenting philosophy on the same kid, one scenario born in 1970 and the other born in 2010. The 2010 version will be a lot "softer" than the 1970 version. I wasn't even a ruffian growing up and was in more than 10 fist fights during my childhood years. My own 2 boys maybe had 1 total between them. The teachers would tell you to go hit people back when I was a kid, fighting was common. For people over 45 the parental advice to getting picked on when they were a kid was likely punch him in nose. Now it's more likely tell the teacher because if your kid punches him he might end up expelled and at the police station.
