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Disgusting ESPN/High School Story

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The problem is just what the story said. Dick Butkus is not a coach. He is a personality. He was once a great football player, but many of these kids won't even know who Dick Butkus was. He'll be some old guy up there screaming and yelling.

The story was also correct in stating that the reason that people tune in to reality shows is to see conflict between people. We all know that espn is not above creating drama to suit their own agenda.

Finally, they have a coach who sounds like a good one, but they won't let him do what he was brought in to do: try to build a winning team. Oh, he'll be making the decisions, doing the game plans, running the practices, but he'll also have Dick Butkus running around and cameras following his kids around school and practice.

espn has hit a new low. I feel especially bad for the seniors. They should have great memories of the their senior season. This will be the last football many of them will ever play. Instead of remembering a special season they'll remember a circus.

IMO, espn is messing with the educational process at that school. I would hope that some parents are prepared to take action against the board and, possibly, espn.
 
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Conflict between Butkus and the man -- it now can be revealed -- who lost his job to Butkus.

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Butkus, a legendary tough guy, deals in his own special way with meddling parents.

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Butkus deals in his own special way with meddling administrators.
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Butkus deals in his own special way with snotty senior quarterback.
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wow... this should be a very positive experience for the kids :rolleyes:. why can't cerro stay the coach??? why not have butkus play the role of a narrator of sorts? yeah... lets artifically introduce unneeded controversy and drama for a bunch of teens. god knows kids that age are starving for such things anyway *sigh*. id boycott espin over this but... yeah.. kinda already.
 
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I am not sure if this is the same show, but I assume it is. I am an assistant at Philo HS (10 miles S of Zanesville--45 miles E of Cbus) ESPN contacted our AD and HC about ESPN doing a reality TV show on schools who are a traditionally good program and have had some bad years lately. In the 80s and 90s we had several League champions and a handful of playoff appearances. The last 3-4 years have been down and we now have a new HC and staff. We were 1 of 20 schools contacted to participate, but after our HC met with the SRs and the staff, we decided not to do it for some of the reasons mentioned in the article. We have a strong team returning and didn't want any unnecessary distractions.


I am not 100% sure if this is the same show, but it definitely sounds like it.
 
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I'm not seeing it as that much of a problem. Sure it will cause some distractions, but it also opens up some opportunities for the kids that otherwise would not be there. I would love to have professional camera crews there to capture most of my senior season and all the games. It might cause some confusion at first but the kids will eventally see through it and will be able to tell that Cerro is the head coach I don't think you're giving the kids enough credit. Plus while Dick may have not coached before I have a hard time believing that he doesn't have plenty of tricks and tips he could teach the students especially while they are able to keep Cerro there for gameplanning.

It has potential to be a really special season for them, it could also have its set-backs; i love football as much as everyone, but i also love other sports nearly as much. In my area funding for other sports are horrible right now and many communities are having to get rid of other programs because of it. So if it means one awkward season, that I'm not willing to write off as a bad-thing just yet, for the football team then I'm not going to argue against what the school is doing.
 
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Jeffcat said:
my question is will the PHSAA allow this type of event over a high school team? i would think it would make their team void from playoffs and such if this type of event went over a team.
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tyrus3 said:
...we decided not to do it for some of the reasons mentioned in the article. We have a strong team returning and didn't want any unnecessary distractions. I am not 100% sure if this is the same show, but it definitely sounds like it.
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I join YSU, well done to your school and its administrators and coaches for putting the kids first.
 
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Admittedly, it's been almost twenty years since I played hs football, but looking back through the mists of time I think I would've been totally on board with something like this. I don't see the problem and I certainly don't see how it's screwing with the educational process, whatever that means.
 
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Typically pithy Smizik.

What does not make sense about this to me is that Montour is a relatively flush district financially -- they don't really need extra moolah. Heck they are paying Cerro $40,000 per annum ascoach with some minor administrative duties.

What makes sense is that the traditional football powers like Woodland Hills, Gateway et al evidently declined to let ESPN muddy their waters.

As for whether ESPN will louse things up for the kids in Cerro's 1st year as coach, well their recent recored was 6 wins and 22 losses. The Montour board in its wisdom believes they can't get much worse.

One last thought, wouldn't ESPN have scored more Brownie points by staging something like the behind the scenes look they run for an NFL team leading up to a season. And do so with support at one of the cash strapped near-city or inner-city schools -- regardless of past record (like say Woodland Hills which is swimming in debt problems). Nah, forget about it, that would take an organization with class, like say the Cleveland Browns.
 
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