I tried reading thru as many posts on this as I could before fatigue set in.
I found this topic a little ironic after what I witnessed this weekend.
While attending my granddaughters basketball game, I witnessed pretty much the same thing first hand only this was from a player to people in the stands.
My granddaughter plays for a private Christian school and was playing a big Catholic school that is in their district. To be honest, it should not have even been a contest, a small Christian school with 8th graders helping make out the roster going up against a school 25 times their size.
But to the point; while warming up, a player from the Catholic school gave someone in the stands the finger. It could have been me she was giving it to for all I know but I was just sitting there not saying anything so I assumed it was for someone in my general area since it happened right in front of me.
If that was not enough, she does it again. As an old high school coach, if one of my players ever did anything like that, they would be my assistant for the near future. I did not allow such behavior by my players. If something needed to be said, done, I was the one to do it. Not the players.
The little Christian school was holding their own, hustling, diving for balls, just ball'n like hell and I love it. but these two kids from the Catholic school did not like being in this situation and was talking crap to my granddaughters team. Not just "smack talk" but calling them bitches and such.
The game ended and as I was walking out, I walked past the AD for the Catholic school and I stopped and asked him if he was the AD ( I already knew he was, but wanted him to feel comfortable) and he said Yes, and turned to talk to me. I spoke to him calmly and very politely telling him what I witnessed the entire game knowing he knew this since he was three rows in front of me during the game. I said that this kind of behavior was not acceptable for high school athletes to act this way much less ones from a Catholic school.
The AD looked me dead in the eye and said, "they are kids and kids do dumb things".
He did not say I will take care of this, no he brushed it off.
My point is, when leaders such as these folks allow this behavior for 15 year old girls, how do you think they will act when they get older?
There is no accountability these days.
I feel bad for the man but he should know better than to act like this. He is a representative of UK.