Bad choices for examples of coaches. I’m from the Pittsburgh area. I went to game 1 of the Stanley Cup. I’ve seen plenty of stories on Sullivan this year. As for NFL coaches, I can name the head coach, and most assistant coaches of all 32 teams, especially the coach of the team that knocked my team out of the…
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They would be commending the coach if that was the case.
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I watched it live. I made sure to finish it, because I wanted to see if she would actually get the record (even if I don’t particularly enjoy swimming). I just looked at as another emotional story that networks exploit all the time. Didn’t find anything offensive about it.
Coaches get credit for wins, even though they didn’t compete. Generals get credit for victories, even though they didn’t actually fight. Eisenhower gets credit for building our superhighways, even though he didn’t actually work on them. Obama gets credit for killing Bin-Laden, even though he didn’t actually do it (And…
Even if it’s never happened in swimming, which I can guarantee it has, it’s happened numerous times in other sports. Watch almost any sport and they spend a large amount of time focusing on coaches or their loved ones. During Warrior’s games they will show Curry’s parents numerous times and talk about how his…
Ok, resort to name calling and insults instead of welcoming an intelligent debate. I’m just saying coaches have been receiving a lot of credit for decades. Before that generals received all the credit for victories where they sat back and watched from a distance. It’s just how things are.
“Hosszu was not the primary person given credit for Hosszu’s success”
It is. Many individual athletes have great potential, but sometimes they need outside support to reach that potential. Even on Jezebel people will come forward with issues that they need encouragement and advice to deal with. The honorable thing to do would be to credit those that helped, and not say they dealt with…
When credit is given to Michelle Obama for her support of Barack it is acceptable, but when credit is given to Bill for his support of Hillary it is somehow wrong?
Umm, coaches are always given credit for an athlete’s performance. Like it or not, they can affect an athlete’s performance regardless of if it is an individual or team sport. You could complain that Pat Summit shouldn’t have been given any credit because it was actually the players who were successful. It’s why they…