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Thats pretty interesting stuff. Because it doesn't seem that people are really getting to the heart of the matter. I keep hearing the same things that seem to me to be forgetting the big picture. And, of course I knew the sour grapes-type comment was coming. Thats what always happens in situations like this as well. Because one person finally says something about someone who many people idolize, its easier to dismiss this problem than to face it. The things that people overlook is allowing the most imporant. I never said he backed down to any PARENTS. My senior season (especially) he back down to the PLAYERS. It may sound absurd but (as I said above and no one mentioned again) the "stars" on the team were literally throwing "f-bombs" (if you will) to his face. What did he do? He took the people that were their backups and threatening to put them in if they didn't stop. That's whats absurd if you ask me. I saw my friends busting it everyday in practice to out perform these guys to no avail. What does that teach the players? Again, I stress that I experienced this stuff first hand. Its not a rumor. I was in the locker room. I got awards for my abilities. Its just as logical to say that if you support him you must have got to play, to say that because I complain I probably didn't. Thats not a valid argument either. Because what I'm describing happened, I'm not making it up. Regardless of the fact that my team went to the playoffs and won some games, it still happened. So the wins/losses don't matter in my book. It starts in the classroom and progresses to the field. Again, no one apparently comment on the fact that the sports part doesn't matter so much as the lessons you're teaching the students. Its just interesting to me that people will argue all day long about the grass on a field (which I might add has never seemed to work too well for us), but when someone questions the very foundation of why we even put a team out on that field, people get upset. Even greater is that many are saying they have no idea about his teaching in the classroom. Sorry to return to that but isn't that quite sad. We send our children to school to get an education and we don't know what goes on in the classroom. Ask any of those kids what they learned and if it didn't have anything to do with coloring then I'd be surprised. Read your children's myspace pages (if you aren't blocked from them) and you'll see that.

I played for Coach McGlone in the late 80s. I also had him in the classroom. I have to disagree with you on this. If you earned it you played. In class he tought what he was supposed to teach. I will conceed that he was better on the football field.

I will defend Coach McGlone. I didn't always agree with every decision that was made but then again I was a player and a student and didn't have too. I did always respect the man though.

Now as I am older and have more experience I respect him even more as a coach and a person. He is very underappreciated in his approach to the game. The man knows football. His laid back personality I think is misunderstood by some. He is more than a figurehead. Also to agree in part with this, Coach Morris is one heck of a coach and has made a huge difference in the program with his energy and abilities.

Now I will address the way the players are treated. Coach McGlone has never cussed at a player. He has never abused a player. As far as I have known and seen he has never played politics with his players. And if any had ever cussed directly at him I can't see him putting up with it.

We are all entitled to are opinions but I hold Coach McGlone in the utmost esteem.