[Stardust]

Can't say I am a huge Cal fan either. He can recruit, but not a great coach of the game (in my opinion). Completely agianst the use of the above mentioned language, no place in the game for it (young men should be looking at him as a role model).

I have been coaching for several years and have athletes that I have helped achieve their goals of playing at the college level. Our teams at the High School level, AAU & Travel have been very successful. Never have I have ever had to curse out a player in order to coach him. Our style has been successful without it, thus it proves that at no level does it HAVE to be appropriate to do. I have seen so often the number of posts from users that said stated that it's no big deal, they were cursed at and they were fine, that it's just about motivation!

Well then I'll ask the question this way, if you are in the classroom, and the teacher asks you to spell a word, and you miss-spell the word, how motivational is it for the teacher to then go into a cursing rant calling you out in front of all of your classmates dropping F-Bombs just to MOTIVATE you to spell better?

Or, you are flipping hamburgers at your local McDonalds, you get behind and your boss in front of all the customers and your work peers starts cursing you, what do you think your reaction is going to be?

It's not about being soft and it's NOT the real world. In the real word, your boss or teacher would be fired for such acts, but in sports, it's excused because we are just caught up in the moment. It's a lack of professionalism and a complete ego driven dominance that coaches give to themselves. Because the coaches know they can curse out their players, but let a player curse out the coach and the player is kicked off the team.

Defend a coaches actions all you want, but it is not something that needs to be part of the GAME!