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He was second string as a senior at Tennessee State. I don't think his NFL stock has changed at all.
I hear ya, my point being that a "coach puncher" can't be had in the NFL. But the league will tolerate wife and child abusers, and drunks for the most part.
Gracias... Coaches job was keeping players back so they don't get penalized. Seems like the coach was doing his job.
If you view the newly released, somewhat longer (but not long enough...) video, Greenstone wasn't just giving verbal directives to the team, he was getting "handsy." Not saying that this clears Lee of any wrong doing here, but we still don't have the entire story/back story.
...and I'm starting to wonder why not? Almost looks like someone is trying not to show the entire video.
If his job was to keep the players back behind the line, I don't see an issue with "pushing" them back a bit if necessary.
If you watch college football at all it happens in every game. The OSU-Penn State game OSU coaches were shoving players back to keep them off the sideline to avoid penalties. The Michigan-Wisconsin game both teams coaches were pushing players back all game. I was at the Michigan-MSU game and Spartan coaches were at times pulling players back in a horse collar move to get them off the sideline. Did not see any punches thrown.
Been watching college football my whole life and that is the first time I have ever seen a player attack a coach with punches like that.So, because every team has always had a Mr Handsy pushing and shoving players to keep them off the field, you're all surprised and aghast that someone finally snapped? I mean, like there's no way that could ever get out of control.
If you ask me- and I know that you didn’t- Latrell Lee lived and breathed his football as much as the next guy out there. He was a good, but not great defensive end and was relegated to serving as a back up to a transfer student his senior year. An athlete toting a 3.0 GPA and graduating early. Coach Greenstone- the teams strength and conditioning coach (who wears his hat backwards on the sidelines- NTTAWWT )- has to be "the bad guy" at games, patrolling the sideline every game tasked with keeping the players back to avoid penalties. Every week those players get all fired up and Coach has to keep them back. Every game. Pushing and shoving. Perhaps a few choice words thrown in to help get the job done. (“You think these @#%&! players would get it, already!”) The perfect storm of “Pushin’ n Shovin’” Greenstone meeting up with Latrell “I Wish I Was On The Field For Senior Week And I’m Graduating in December” Lee became a volatile combo this time. "Snap!" Sad.
It is not up to us to decide as it has already been decided.
Okay, it's too late for this kid. He'll be getting his.
My hope is that the full tape appears and that more light is shone on this barbaric, old school sideline procedure.
Actually what is goes on during the game on the field is much more barbaric.Okay, it's too late for this kid. He'll be getting his.
Well, yes- there is that. And that's where it's supposed to be, right? The practice of adult coaches pushing and shoving students on the sidelines to keep them in line doesn't have to be.
What?Okay, it's too late for this kid. He'll be getting his.
Wat? Have you ever played football? It's nature to get up close to the field when you're on the sidelines (which happens to be a penalty, and a penalty for obvious reasons - it creates an unnecessary hazard).
Having a coach tasked with pushing and shoving players back behind a line all game long, every game...
Oh, completely get it. It is the team or coaches fault that there is a rule in place (not made by them) that they have to adhere to. Prob their fault too that the players don't follow the rule and they need to make sure it is enforced or it is a penalty against the team.
Standing away from the sidelines has been a rule for decades. If these dumb oafs would follow the rules, maybe they wouldn't need to be physically restrained.
Coach got short changed in the original articles and accounts. He took FOUR shots, not two. I want to see what went down before the hand grabbing that precipitated the blows.
"These dumb oafs" apparently dwell on all college sidelines. Cattle prods would do the trick.
Maybe he snapped because he has CTE. Players fight the other team all the time. But when you attack members of your own squad, you have a screw loose and lack self-control. Goodbye.So, because every team has always had a Mr Handsy pushing and shoving players to keep them off the field, you're all surprised and aghast that someone finally snapped? I mean, like there's no way that could ever get out of control.
Don't care what works or doesn't. Get shoved by a coach or rack up 100 yards worth of penalties for all I care.
I've never even seen you in person and I want to punch the ####### #### out of you, so I think you're right.
Okay, it's too late for this kid. He'll be getting his.
you ever seen Tank Abbott
Glock, I love ya GB, but this is an odd hill to die on.
That's where I started with this. It took until the 3rd distribution of the video to show that there was a prolonged grapple prior to 4 blows being thrown. I never said that Lee get a "get out of jail free card" from me, either. I'm just thinking that all the "pushing and shoving" doesn't happen at the high school or professional level (not that I've seen, anyway...). Why at the college level?
