What he said: "Without naming coaches, LaVar was critical of head coach Steve Alford and his staff for placing blame on the players — LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill — and not taking more responsibility. LaVar said the coaches should have enforced stronger rules during the trip."
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"You shouldn't hang them on the cross for this long for that," Ball said. "A kid wants to play basketball all his life. You take that away, that's worse than jail. ... China already forgave the boys. They returned it. Why keep them from playing sports and take their meal passes? You already sent a message. They already apologized. What's the big deal?"
What you said: "yet la var blames everybody except the guy who was supposed to teach his son some values."
I agree with you.
So a parent's job is to make sure his grown kid gets to college with a meal plan and then it's the school's job to teach him the difference between right and wrong. And when the kid is caught breaking the law within weeks of starting school, Dad can say what the kid did was "no big deal", and it's the coach's fault for not raising the kid better.
Full disclosure: I'm a parent of three kids, not a psychiatrist. But I'm calling insanity on this one.
I would disagree. As a former teacher, I've seen too many parents and people just like LA Var Look at today's headline story.
As a student at Purdue in the late 70's. there was a student who ran for election of the Purdue student government. His platform was that the current student government was just filled wit h a bunch of preppies who wanted to pad their resume. As part of his platform he wanted to do something different and memorable. he wanted to declare war on the university of Wisconsin. he wanted to rename Purdue as new jersey University so that students could say they graduated from a prestigious Northeastern university. he wanted Fridays off. he wanted a lot of things that normal students would never think of. he wanted to fire all of the current government students and replace them with his friends. he wanted an entire bunch of meaningless things because , as he said, our current student government wasn't doing anything, so let's have a change and vote for somebody who promises to do away with the laws and rules.
and sadly, our Purdue student body elected him. and they even re-elected him. And he was s o shocked, he had no idea what to do, so he stuck to his promise and did nothing. he sought a third term, but by then he was considered as part of the establishment, and lost.
As I look back, I thought he was insane. yet, he is the one the students elected and wanted to be in charge. There was a similar student at UW who ran on the same election platform and was also elected.
As I look in the mirror and see events and people around me, I sometimes feel I'm the insane person thinking it's the parent's responsibility to instill values and morals in their children. Today's kids and today's posters look at me and call me crazy. Maybe I am.
And if there is a poster who went to Purdue between 1974-1980, they can verify my story. I believe if history serves, that crazy guy was a poly science major and became a lawyer or something similar and put being Purdue Student body President on his resume just like so many of his predecessors.
I started this thread. the thread was never really intended to be about basketball, but rather about a total lack of ethics. I wonder about La Var Ball But he has so many role models and he is just following their lead.
