“A high school quarterback in Southern California said he still has a full scholarship offer from Utah despite being expelled after an altercation with his baseball coach. Tyler Shreve, 18, of Redlands, Calif., wrestled Redlands East Valley baseball coach James Cordes to the ground in anger after being informed he was being dismissed from the team.”
Exhibit A of the problems caused by spoiled, pampered athletes who’ve developed a sense of entitlement and no sense that their actions have consequences.
This kid’s baseball coach dismissed him from the team for “not going to class and not respecting the coaching staff.” And he responds by attacking that coach. When you have to physically pull your 18-year-old son off his coach, as Shreve’s father did, that should be a hint that there’s a problem.
But getting expelled is apparently not a problem for someone with Shreve’s natural talents. He’s finishing his credits, “playing travel baseball to make sure his draft status stays intact,” and hoping to get drafted so he doesn’t have to bother with college & the pesky NCAA. But that’s not even the kicker.
What really gets me is what this “distraught” kid thinks about it.
“Right now I feel pretty good about where I stand….I do feel really bad about what happened and it’s a tragedy that it all had to turn out like that.”
NO.
You little twerp. You got expelled for losing your temper and beating up your coach and you feel good about it?
And it is not a tragedy. Tragedy is someone dying in a car wreck, a young kid battling incurable cancer, a natural disaster that wipes out an entire town.
It is not a tragedy that a coddled 18-year-old who thinks he’s hot stuff has no social skills and risks losing his scholarship because he physically attacked someone who dared to put him in his place.
The truly infuriating part is that unless he’s convicted and receives the maximum sentence of a fine + jail time, he probably will get drafted or go to Utah on a scholarship and won’t face any negative ramifications. He might get a slap on the wrist before going on with his life. What he really needs is for someone to whup his ass and send him off to anger management classes.
I guarantee you that if I ever have children who turn out to be uber-talented athletes, they’ll also be decent human beings. If they ever acted like this kid, I guarantee you I would not reassure them “that everything was going to be OK.” Oh no. They’d know better than that.
