socaltownie said:Big C said:stu said:
IMHO if these allegations are true they're far worse than Hufnagel's transgressions and worse than Bozeman's. At least in those two cases nobody got hurt. But one of those swimmers might have gone through with a suicide.
Regarding Knowlton: It's one thing to be incompetent, another to have blood on your hands. He needs to go before this gets worse.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I will throw this out there: If I go over to the BI Off-Topic Forum and call "Poster X" a piece of s*** a bunch of times and then Poster X takes their own life, do I have blood on my hands? (I don't do that, btw, but some posters almost do.)
I know, I know, totally different dynamic. Not the same at all. Still, it sounds like what McKeever is "guilty" of is being a total azz hole in her position of authority. We're almost treating the situation like she was that doctor at Michigan State who molested dozens of athletes.
It goes beyond name calling. Shaming student to swim when they had medical notes, "outing" kids, clearly bigoted if not outright racist treatment of poc swimmers.
Well, allegedly. But yes, you are right.
One lesson to be learned here, for parents, is to raise their kids knowing that they never, ever, have to put up with verbal abuse that has clearly crossed the line. Easier said than done, given the power dynamic, especially in this case, but wouldn't we all want to have daughters (or sons) who would get out of the pool, look the coach in the eye and tell them they had absolutely no right to talk to them like that?
