“30 lashes with a wet noodle” playing
out at a Rutgers University basketball drill...shades of Bobby Knight’s repetitive compulsion at Indiana, his tantrums during a game, seen on
Saturday’s Big 10 rivalry, his competitive juices short circuiting; the
officials, the players, and Indiana University administrators, who put an end
to his reign of terror.
II
The need to dominate vis a vi
the mentor’s cause celebre . His ego trip to an other level is the cliche. But
the heat of battle during the coach’s need to justify himself before the
immediate television audience, his peers in the “business”, and himself.
Whence where he hails from? What’s he trying to prove?
III
“30 lashes with a wet noodle”,
the New Jersey Rutgers coach caught on tape, gay taunting his “sissy” athlete.
Demeaning the student athlete during the defensive drill. In other words
heckling him in front of his team mates....and why porque? what’s he trying to
prove?
A “w”?
The current “Sweet 16" into
the final 4 playoff games on global
television mirrors the aspirations of the civilized struggle at humanity’s most
enduring competitive level.
Shades of immortal John Wooden
at Ucla, his streak of ten or eleven Ucla championships, 77 straight victories:
an All American player in college.
He wanted to become an English teacher. To
bring out the best in his being a surrogate father for young men.
Here the role model thrust
playing out is degraded, the student athlete having to find his own way. All
for a “w”....his divine providence denied by an older adult , not sacrificing his ego trip for immediate gratification..
A “w”!
V
What ho, Simon Legree?
“30 lashes with a wet noodle?”
