[Orange Blaze]

I agree Scotty. There’s probably more to this. That’s I worded my post carefully with “appears to” or implying allegedly. Haha. And I agree with blaze too. Words can be denied. Once it’s on your phones or computers, it’s there forever!!

But for those who are upset about it, what if they were at the mall and passed each other and the coach said the exact same thing? Would that make it better? Or just the same?

The issue here is there is documented evidence.  I think it is easier to make a claim of wrong doing when you see something in writing.  Context is key too and you really can’t get a sense of what was being implied in a text message.  I actually think an in person conversation would be worse because you could be more persuasive in those situations.  The problem is being able to prove that the conversation actually happened the way either party said it did.

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In this particular instance, the wording of the text message tells me that this coach had the intent of trying to persuade a player to come to his program. The statement “if you or your friends feel like you aren’t getting the playing time you deserve, we would love to have you” seems pretty clear about the intentions of the coach. I think he is really stupid for putting that in writing and thinking no one else would see it.