Watched this documentary last night and it was tragic. However, after seeing how Osborne dealt with him using brief suspensions, I was wondering what would the media and SJW's around the country do with coach Osborne today? He gave that kid a lot of chances because he felt sorry for him. Sort of along the same line of excuses that Briles gave for his inaction, and Stoops is now giving, even though he did dismiss the kid for an entire year.
After watching that, I think some of these coaches really feel they are dad's to these kids that they never had one and really feel sorry for them, and that in turn leads them to give their kids the benefit of the doubt and then allow them to stick around when they should be dismissed, but we on the outside perceive it as they just want to win football games.
Osborne in that documentary, after Lawrence was arrested for dragging that basketball player girlfriend by her hair down 3 flights of stairs and beating her head against the wall, and after he was sent to a clinic in Kansas where they said he had no psychosis of any kind, let Lawrence back on the team to end the season. I think he only missed 4 or 5 games in total. Then left for the NFL after that season. But Osborne said, "I just didn't want to kick the kid to the curb because he's been kicked to the curb his whole life." They interviewed some SJW later/activist on the Doc as well who defended Osborne and his choices with Lawrence because of that very same reasoning.
I feel that things today have completely done a 180 and now there are no benefits of doubt for players are coaches from the media our the public. Now the focus is on the alleged victim and people immediately call for heads to roll before the facts are even out. Many times that ends up being justified, but as we seen in some cases, many times it turns out that it is not.
Personally, I think coaches have a really tough job to do today. You can be a great dad type coach and use a combo of tough love and forgiveness like Charlie did...getting rid of kids who refused to meet you half way...but if you hurt your team in the process and lose, you also get fired. That is a tough balancing act for a coach.
I thought Lawrence's story was really painful to watch because people who cared for him were actually enablers. I was shocked the psych clinic didn't find some issue with his anger and rejection issues and treat him for that, instead of sending him back saying he wasn't crazy and just needed a structured environment like a football team...which was another reason Osborne gave for letting him back on the team. If just one person would have recognized these hidden issuers and confronted them, maybe that dude would not have ended up in jail and eventually killing himself.
If you watched the film, how do you think that while scenario with LP plays out today? Do you think Coach O handles it differently, or like Stoops he eventually gives the kids a chance to redeem themselves?
Hook'em
After watching that, I think some of these coaches really feel they are dad's to these kids that they never had one and really feel sorry for them, and that in turn leads them to give their kids the benefit of the doubt and then allow them to stick around when they should be dismissed, but we on the outside perceive it as they just want to win football games.
Osborne in that documentary, after Lawrence was arrested for dragging that basketball player girlfriend by her hair down 3 flights of stairs and beating her head against the wall, and after he was sent to a clinic in Kansas where they said he had no psychosis of any kind, let Lawrence back on the team to end the season. I think he only missed 4 or 5 games in total. Then left for the NFL after that season. But Osborne said, "I just didn't want to kick the kid to the curb because he's been kicked to the curb his whole life." They interviewed some SJW later/activist on the Doc as well who defended Osborne and his choices with Lawrence because of that very same reasoning.
I feel that things today have completely done a 180 and now there are no benefits of doubt for players are coaches from the media our the public. Now the focus is on the alleged victim and people immediately call for heads to roll before the facts are even out. Many times that ends up being justified, but as we seen in some cases, many times it turns out that it is not.
Personally, I think coaches have a really tough job to do today. You can be a great dad type coach and use a combo of tough love and forgiveness like Charlie did...getting rid of kids who refused to meet you half way...but if you hurt your team in the process and lose, you also get fired. That is a tough balancing act for a coach.
I thought Lawrence's story was really painful to watch because people who cared for him were actually enablers. I was shocked the psych clinic didn't find some issue with his anger and rejection issues and treat him for that, instead of sending him back saying he wasn't crazy and just needed a structured environment like a football team...which was another reason Osborne gave for letting him back on the team. If just one person would have recognized these hidden issuers and confronted them, maybe that dude would not have ended up in jail and eventually killing himself.
If you watched the film, how do you think that while scenario with LP plays out today? Do you think Coach O handles it differently, or like Stoops he eventually gives the kids a chance to redeem themselves?
Hook'em
