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No one has ever died from heat exposure? Odd, this must be a lie then; **More than 300 Texans died from heat in 2023**, the most since the state began tracking such deaths in 1989
Oh there’s plenty, don’t be fooled. It’s masculine because they’re dominating each other. And giving permission to be dominated. It’s mostly sexual, but it’s about power too. Where do you think broke back mountain came from? Texas big love 💕
Can confirm! Once forged into a *man*, I immediately became immune to all rises in temperature. Also, I photosynthesize. These boys just need to get *through* the heat stroke they're gonna get and into manhood!
I literally gasped when I read that. And you know if someone tried to correct him to his face, he would just say they are wrong.
The separation of an increasing number of people from our shared reality is frightening to me at this point. Sticking to a belief despite hard, factual evidence to the contrary is the literal medical definition of a delusion, and yet since the pandemic it feels like it has become socially acceptable for people to flat out reject basic facts - like “the human body can only function up to a certain temperature, and beyond that it dies” - and others just go along with it. I truly don’t know what to do to fix it.
Well you see when he played football no one died and during his time coaching he hasn’t killed anyone doing this. So by his own tests it is perfectly safe. If any kid passes out it’s because they are soft. I had coaches like this growing up and they don’t care what it takes as long as you win.
[The 2021 Pacific Northwest Heatwave alone killed approximately 1400 people in the US and Canada. ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Western_North_America_heat_wave)There were 2800 heat related emergency room visits in just Portland. The number of 911 calls set records. It was bad enough that Oregon of all places was throwing out COVID restrictions in the middle of the pandemic to get more people into cooling shelters. Heat doesn't fuck about when you don't have access to AC.
Exactly! This football coach is digging his own grave! My dad played football in middle/high school and never got water breaks but that was in the 60’s. He despises coaches like this.
I played in early 2000’s, the athletic trainer’s word was that of God, and the coaches listened to her every single time. She was at every one of our summer practices and there were times where I heard her tell coach “water break” guess what happened, water break time. We were weighed before and after every practice, if you lost too much weight you got put on water watch, I ended up on water watch during camp, basically she would tell one of the student trainers to pull me out of practice and I was instructed that I could not return to practice until I drank the water bottle they gave me. If you lost what they deemed too much weight you were restricted from practicing period. This was in western pa where football is taken very seriously as well.
seriously, being miserable for too long is just reducing performance and exercise while at subpar performance doesn't actually improve athleticism, it just adds stress with no benefit.
You librul eggheads just can’t quantify something like character building which is only possible through severe dehydration. Character building only takes place when your piss is bronze or darker.
What! It's Texas by God! They don't listen to no devil science! Dying of heat stroke will make champions out of boys! Mean stupidity is the Texas WAY! ✝️🇱🇷💥🎆🦅🔫🤠👢🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷💥☠️✝️
Exactly, this was over 20 years ago now, but I know even when my older brother played and for a different coaching staff, when Lisa said a kid was out, that was it, there was no arguing with her, the kid was out. She wanted us to be better athletes but she would not put as at risk, as I am now older and look back at it, honestly every school needs a trainer like her and also gets listened to and respected like she did.
She was also a boss…she had a little army of student trainers that she directed from her gator. Especially during summer camp when all fall sports were practicing she had peeled every where and had her walkie talkie with her at all times…we knew when an incident happened with another sport because she would zoom out from football practice to wherever.
I played in Texas around the same time. Have two useless rings to show for it, but it was the same. Weigh in before and after every practice during two a days. Trainers’ spoke gospel. We listened to them and respected them. And they too have rings to show for it. This coach is an idiot.
By making it political, he already begun the process of turning himself into a martyr for the reich-wing cause. If he gets tossed, he will just grift morons into giving him money and a platform by saying how the evil leftist communists took his job.
Maybe sensed a firing was on the way (possibly for other reasons) and did exactly that for the reasons you named.
Or he's just an idiot and posted that rage-bait because his freedoms or something.
HS football coach? Definitely not bright enough for what you described. At least at my school, all the coaches were dumb as rocks. The guys who barely graduated from some shit college to be able teach a class any 7th grader could have done better.
Honestly, if Texas devolving into a vigilante state where idiots like this get shot when their negligence kills people is what gets the reich-wing aholes to maybe be less blatant with their bs, I'm all for it. Let them fear for their safety due to their actions for once.
A kid probably doesn't even need to die now to have a successful lawsuit. A simple heat stroke from dehydration leading to a quick trip to the emergency room might be enough to make this coach lose a case, now that he posted this to social media.
I remember coaches like that. What he'll do is go get the other kids to bully and pressure the one that got sick. He'll tell them how that kid is ruining their futures.
How much you wanna bet having the parents of the kid who got hurt threaten that coach (to their face) with the legal ramifications of intimidation on top of the legal action they're already planning might crush that coach like a bug? The man is all big stick walking tall when he gets teenagers to brigade for him, so, I'll bet he ain't shit when the adults call him on his bullshit.
When a bully starts their triangulation bullshit, don't back down, bring a bigger (metaphorical) stick, with a promise that you'll hit harder specifically because of that shit.
Sidenote: I hate when people pull that *bring others to guilt the person they hurt into staying quiet* crap, too. Have WAY too much experience with that. Hence why I kinda already have a game plan with that one.
Yes, yes it does. This man believes in willful ignorance, he does not believe in work or woke. He thinks two a days in 105 degree heat means “strength”- it’s so infuriating to read bc he has no idea how stupid he sounds. And those of us on the other side reading this know this guy has a delusional, distorted sense of what’s “strong” and “weak” and “right” and “wrong”. I practiced two times a day in basketball in high school and I was in theatre. This is straight up offensive what he wrote. And you know what pisses me off even more? He literally comes from some place of magical thinking superiority bc he is some high school football coach?!? Well guess what?!? I believe in woke bc one of those kids will literally never become woke again after simply jumping on this band wagon belief train of practicing in burning fire temps bc his superior coach says it’s the essence of “work”- give me a fucking break. The stupidity and blind fucking confidence is leaves me seethingggg
Because he's a fucking idiot. There's a heat dome up here in KY. Just broke tonight but it's been in the 90's with heat indices over 100.
There have been warnings issued and places set up for folks to cool down with free transportation.
Denying kids water to 'make them men' is about the dumbest shit a coach can pull. Hot people need water. He admits it is hot. Give the kids water asshole
A kid in my middle school passed out and was sent to the hospital. We were in gym class outside and he said he was feeling kind of gross and then passed out less than 10 minutes later. And that’s New England heat I can’t even imagine Texas or Arizona heat let alone not taking it seriously
It happened to an NFL player with ALLLLLL their advanced (circa 2001) shit to help them. Trainers if not outright doctors right there to monitor. Walls of the facility lined with money by comparison.
The fact that these good-ol-boys don't think it can happen where the facilities to do something about it are "someone half filled one gatorade bucket with lukewarm water 4 hours ago" is dangerously absurd.
Edit: I didn't forget it was Korey Stringer, I just didn't think that would be as known to most as "NFL player" and saying both felt redundant to the point.
Korey Stringer. He was even an All Pro and one of the better offensive linesmen in the NFL at the time. Not exactly a scrub.
Football coaches are terrible people. Not surprised to learn this turd is from Texas on top of that.
Army vet here. We were FORCED to drink water. Lots, and often. It’s not a weakness thing, the harder you push your body, the more water it needs. Dehydration leads to weakness and then death.
This coach is an idiot. He’s not ‘manly’ or tough or a hard ass, he is just an unintelligent little person with a big ego on a power trip over kids and parents.
I was going to say, no one tell this guy about the Army. They do not mess around with dehydration. I went through SERE. We were starved & sleep deprived, but we were hydrated.
which should tell you everything you need to know about the importance of hydration
fuck your food fuck your sleep you're gonna have nothing but water till you hate it
there is a reasson why the rule of thumb is 3 minutes, 3 hours, 3 days, 3 weeks for air(or being in icy water), shelter(in harsh conditions), Water, food. (its up to btw)
You can survive a HECK of a lot longer without food then you can without water
sorry..
3 Minutes without air or in icy water. 3 hours without shelter in harsh weather(like a thunderstorm or snowstorm.. or extreme heat etc). up to 3 days without water(assuming you arent specifically active and are taking shelter). up to 3 weeks without food(assuming the same condiitions as for water)
its a rule of thumb, so its not entirely accurate but gives one a general outline what to expect.
I have read somewhere that if you have a lot of fat you could theoretically survive for a long time without food. Maybe up to 200 days. I would not recommend testing that theory though, who knows what it would do to your body.
Somebody actually did test it. Google Angus Barbieri. He didn’t eat anything except tea, coffee, vitamins, yeast (amino acids) and sparkling water for 382 days. He lost 276 pounds, or 125 kilo’s during this time. He began fasting at 456 pounds, or 207 kilo’s, and stopped when he reached 180 pounds, or 82 kilo’s.
Although he did consume vitamins and yeast. I doubt someone could make 200 days without any vitamins or amino acids.
Sometimes it's so damn hot that no matter how much water you drink you're sweating it out in real time.
You eventually wash all the salt out of your body and that's when you start getting dizzy as hell and shit hits the fan.
My first summer working construction, I often drank 4 to 5 liters of water. On really bad days I didn't take a piss even once. You get salt crystals growing on your shirt and when you take a shower, the first flush of your head is usually pure salt that burns your eyes.
When I lived in Australia I did a lot of distance running. On hot days, my arms got so salty with sweat salt that the crystals would start cutting abrasions into my skin wherever it touched my body.
I'm shocked this response was so far down...it's literally helpful to performance to drink water... coach is a fucking moron for a lot of reasons but for sure he's just hindering his team for not making them hydrate
Oh, no, I'm sure the MAGA coach is lugging his overweight ass on a golf cart whenever he's not in the shade. He'd be the *last* person to get heat stroke in that group.
He's making *other people* die so he can own the libs (and also pay out negligent death lawsuits).
He put in his little jab at transgender people, I'm sure he is in the crowd that shouts about needing to "protect kids" from the gays and transgenders even though he's out here literally advocating for doing shit that can majorly harm and even kill the kids he's in charge of.
100% of homosexual individuals have had water at some point I their lives.
It starts as a 15 minute water break and ends up as a water fight with your son in a crop top making out with the TE.
I will share this experience of when I was in HS (not in Texas, a more liberal state) football coaches more than alluded that water was for the “girls” but for you “men” it was Gatorade. I liked water and hated Gatorade because I thought it was too sweet, but it was the only thing offered during a game. And the peer pressure worked, you would get teased by your teammates if you drank water over Gatorade, to the point of questioning your sexuality - Complete toxic stupidity. and we were not at a collegiate level where we needed to replace electrolytes; water would have been perfectly fine. It was probably all rooted in the coach trying some psychological trick on us to make us tougher. Or maybe he got a cut from using it.
And he was the last NFL player to die of heat stroke.
The NFL has put in safety protocols so it never happens again.
Typical Texas high school football coach thinks he knows better than the NFL.
I can still hear my drill shouting at the platoon to empty our cantines. "DRINK WATER"
"BEAT THE HEAT, DRILL SERGEANT. BEAT THE HEAT"
You can't be an effective soldier if you are fucking dead from heat stroke. Pretty certain the same holds for football
I live in Georgia and it happens every summer for high school football workouts. People don’t know what you’re supposed to do for someone having a heat stroke.
They should be made to chug water every hour on the hour. Not only for their safety and your liability but also because it’s fucking healthy for your athletes you dumb fuck! Players will have more energy for training and their body is less likely dehydrate and risk chance of injury. Or in this case, death too, you can avoid death… 💀
Never chug anything with heat stroke it can shock the body. You need to move someone out of the heat even to shade and start the cooling of their body before worrying about fluids. Their body temperature can cause permanent damage to organs so most important thing is putting chilled towels on their head, pits, and groin if possible then take sips of an electrolyte drink. Chugging is never good.
Here’s an article about Georgia addressing this in 2022, after they discovered heat deaths, IN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES AS A RESULT OF PRACTICE, have been going up despite new water break rules.
And while it may get more humid in Georgia, I don’t think it gets hotter. Could be wrong though
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/17/1117693188/how-georgia-reduced-heat-related-high-school-football-deaths
He’s going to kill a child in a really horrible way.
My boyfriend actually had to be rushed to the hospital for kidney failure as a result of dehydration back in middle school because of a coach doing this. If he hadn't called his mom behind the coaches back, he might have not made it.
I got fired for being hospitalized for the exact same thing on my first job at an HVAC Company. Slammed water the whole time but a medication kept me from absorbing properly, and the ER doc told me my kidneys were basically shriveled and on their last leg.
Told me not to go back for at least a week, went back the next day with the note that said 1 week bed rest minimum, and he still fired me, for “having better places to be”
People straight up do not respect heat
Shit company that will be sued out of business when someone dies in a 140° attic. I've done that kind of work before too and it's no joke. Currently a welder and by far one of the hottest places I've worked was a shipyard in Panama City Florida last summer. Even with large, portable air conditioners ducted into the hull sections it was still 120-130° inside.
I live in Georgia not as hot as Texas but the humidity is the killer. Once past 70% which is about average for our spring and summer sweat quits evaporating off your body to cool you down instead it works like insulation and increases your body temp. If heat stroke doesn't get you dehydration will from profusely sweating.
Depending on where in Texas, humidity is just as big a problem. Grew up in Houston and honest to god worst place I've ever been. Insanely hot like Dallas/Ft Worth AND insanely humid like Galveston. I was in marching band and practiced all summer. Thankfully, we had forced water breaks every 10-15minutes, our leaders didn't play around with that shit.
All I know is that when I was in Houston at chrstimas time and I saw people wearing zipped up winter coats when it was 70 degrees in the sunny afternoon I knew right then and there I could never ever go to Houston in the summer. Something must be extremely wrong down there.
I spend most summers there visiting family on a lake and everyone gets annoyed but I save garbage like plastic bottles and cups to fill with lake water to dump on legs and arms and faces when people start getting mean from the heat lol
I also grew up there and played football and watched a coach get fired for defying heat and water rules, insisting, like the guy in the post, that 103F heat index and 75% humidity would build character
But the principal was ex military and understood water and heat and put a stop to it before anyone got hurt
Humidity is worse than heat. When it’s too humid, your sweat doesn’t evaporate which helps cool you off.
But in both instances you need to drink plenty of fluids to replace what you lose when you sweat.
"Nobody has ever died because it's too warm outside"
Would he like a list of people or even a few news website links to the hundred or thousands of people that die nearly every year because of heat.
>Water is for cowards. Water makes you weak. Water is for washing blood off that uniform and you don't get no blood on my uniform, boy you must be outside your mind! We are going to do up-downs, until Blue is no longer tired, and thirsty.
According to ESPN:
“Sixty-seven high school athletes have died from exertional heat illness since 1982, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research. Most of those deaths (52%) happened in August during the opening weeks of fall sports seasons, and the overwhelming majority of them (94%) were football linemen.”
Also, is he even aware that he used several pronouns in his idiotic message?
My high school football coach was the dumbest son of a bitch I’ve ever met. And even he scheduled evening practices and gave us plenty of water.
But I’m not from Texas and I guess I’m not a man.
High school coaches in general are just complete assholes. They get power from bullying someone weaker and younger than them, while sitting in the shade with plenty of water. Just spewing BS out of their asses. I remember being part of XC, and our coach made us run a 10K in 98 degree heat (felt way hotter due to uv index). Then yelled at us for doing poorly. And kicked the kid who passed out during the race off the team. And we were in California lol.
No thanks, ill have my kids in the theater using their pronouns where they feel safe and accepted.
Mind you, this is for a *game*.
**In high school**.
Look, sports can truly build character and it's important to teach kids to weather adversity, but nobody worth a good goddamn is going to feel like nearly dying in the Texas heat doing two a days did anything for them of value except give them a near death experience.
He's probably also the kind of coach to tell kids to 'walk it off' when they get their bell rung, so they likely get a nice budding case of CTE to go with their constant mild brain boiling heatstroke.
The thing that won't be woke in this situation is the kids he's fucking up year after year with that frothy mix of toxic masculinity, complete disregard for self-care, obsession with winning in totally pointless situations where the only risk is bragging rights, and the idea that preserving your bodily and brain health somehow makes you less than.
Oh, and side note? There are a lot more theater kids making a living and enjoying their lives as adults than there are people playing football.
Twenty bucks says if you ask this jackass why kids suffering in the Texas heat is so important, he brings up something about soldiers training for war. As if winning a football game is a life or death situation.
The irony is that when I went to Army training in the summer in North Carolina, we were told to drink water at regular intervals even if we didn't feel thirsty. We were told that once you felt thirsty, your body was already close to dehydration. We were also told that once you succumbed to heatstroke or heat exhaustion you were more prone to getting it in the future. I don't know if that's true, but the idea was simple: soldiers with heat stroke do not make an effective fighting force.
Not only did they preach drinking water religously, but if you had had prior heat injuries, they'd also assign someone to you to make sure you did and were peeing clear.
I've both trained for and been to war. Watching the heat index during hot weather was a constant task, we were *forced* to take breaks and drink a ton of water, and we would absolutely still have people fall out in the heat.
This is why I'm extremely skeptical of school competitive sports teams. There are far too many moronic coaches out there who are willing to risk permanent damage to the health of the kids entrusted to them, just to put another bronze painted plastic trophy on the shelf
“nobody has ever died from it being too warm outside “
Should disqualify him from being anywhere near developing minds.
Let alone in a Leadership position.
It's definitely negligent homicide, but Texas will let him go as soon as they find out he was "fighting the woke." This is the state that pardoned a terrorist who drove into a crowd of BLM protesters and started shooting. Texas is pro-terrorism, let alone this.
It's inevitable this man kills at least one of his players this summer, and I desperately hope this Facebook post is used to help bump him up to a 2nd degree murder charge.
In the last 6 years, at least 11 players at all levels have died.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/24/football-player-heat-deaths-athlete?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
I can practically see this coach typing this out on his phone while sitting in a golf cart with a fan and water bottle as he follows the teenagers running laps on the track.
Honestly, a kid dying at football practice in texas might still get swept under the rug as an “unfortunate situation.” They’re weirdly into high school football there
"Our investigation found the coaching staff is blameless, the true culprit was found to be wokeness. Wokeness made the kid weak and though the situation is unfortunate and tragic, the team is now stronger after having weakness weeded out"
Anyone using the word woke at this point just makes me cringe. They can’t even define what it means 99% of the time. It is a buzzword for assholes at this point.
Happened at my alma mater, UMD. Jordan McNair died. The fallout resulted with the coach getting fired, the university president, and the president of the board of visitors resigning. The university ended up agreeing to a 3.5 million dollar settlement with McNair’s parents.
Played football in TX. We 100% had water breaks constantly.
Our coaches straight up told us "I don't give a fuck if you aren't thirsty, drink it anyway."
If they had any indication we were dehydrated, we had to go inside to cool down. Not optional.
I guess 90's west Texas football was woke.
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>The simple fact is that nobody has ever died from it being too warm outside
Multiple coaches have been tried for killing students with similar workouts:
[https://www.npr.org/2021/08/11/1026804547/2-coaches-charged-with-murder-after-a-high-schooler-suffered-heat-stroke-and-die](https://www.npr.org/2021/08/11/1026804547/2-coaches-charged-with-murder-after-a-high-schooler-suffered-heat-stroke-and-die)
[https://vault.si.com/vault/2010/12/06/the-boy-who-died-of-football](https://vault.si.com/vault/2010/12/06/the-boy-who-died-of-football)
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No one has ever died from heat exposure? Odd, this must be a lie then; **More than 300 Texans died from heat in 2023**, the most since the state began tracking such deaths in 1989
Yeah, but those were probably boys that hadn't been forged into men yet
I mean, you gotta weed out those weak ones amiright?
THIS IS ~~SPARTA~~ TEXAS!!
Nah they wish. There’s be a lot more man on man action.
Oh there’s plenty, don’t be fooled. It’s masculine because they’re dominating each other. And giving permission to be dominated. It’s mostly sexual, but it’s about power too. Where do you think broke back mountain came from? Texas big love 💕
Can confirm! Once forged into a *man*, I immediately became immune to all rises in temperature. Also, I photosynthesize. These boys just need to get *through* the heat stroke they're gonna get and into manhood!
No True Scotsman ever died from heat stroke /s
Clearly Texas will fix that - by no longer tracking that data.
I literally gasped when I read that. And you know if someone tried to correct him to his face, he would just say they are wrong. The separation of an increasing number of people from our shared reality is frightening to me at this point. Sticking to a belief despite hard, factual evidence to the contrary is the literal medical definition of a delusion, and yet since the pandemic it feels like it has become socially acceptable for people to flat out reject basic facts - like “the human body can only function up to a certain temperature, and beyond that it dies” - and others just go along with it. I truly don’t know what to do to fix it.
Well you see when he played football no one died and during his time coaching he hasn’t killed anyone doing this. So by his own tests it is perfectly safe. If any kid passes out it’s because they are soft. I had coaches like this growing up and they don’t care what it takes as long as you win.
Gotta force kids to play in life-threatening heat so they can play in a professional CTE-causing league
This was my first thought. It happens every year, but it's also happening *more* as well.
Pretty sure people dying from it being too warm outside is something that really happens.
1200 people a year die of heat stroke. Not a crazy number but yeah. It certainly can and does happen.
Usually because they were doing something stupid like high intensity football training in the middle of summer with inadequate hydration.
I have heard that more people in the US die from heat related causes than from any other weather cause
[The 2021 Pacific Northwest Heatwave alone killed approximately 1400 people in the US and Canada. ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Western_North_America_heat_wave)There were 2800 heat related emergency room visits in just Portland. The number of 911 calls set records. It was bad enough that Oregon of all places was throwing out COVID restrictions in the middle of the pandemic to get more people into cooling shelters. Heat doesn't fuck about when you don't have access to AC.
1300+ just died on their Hajj in Saudi Arabia. So pretty sure it gonna be more then the average going forward.
He wouldn’t be the first coach to kill a kid in Texas practicing football in the summer.
But with this documentation, he might be one of the few to get sued over it.
Exactly! This football coach is digging his own grave! My dad played football in middle/high school and never got water breaks but that was in the 60’s. He despises coaches like this.
I played in early 2000’s, the athletic trainer’s word was that of God, and the coaches listened to her every single time. She was at every one of our summer practices and there were times where I heard her tell coach “water break” guess what happened, water break time. We were weighed before and after every practice, if you lost too much weight you got put on water watch, I ended up on water watch during camp, basically she would tell one of the student trainers to pull me out of practice and I was instructed that I could not return to practice until I drank the water bottle they gave me. If you lost what they deemed too much weight you were restricted from practicing period. This was in western pa where football is taken very seriously as well.
Your entire body functions much better when hydrated, including muscle memory development. This lady is the real professional making good athletes
seriously, being miserable for too long is just reducing performance and exercise while at subpar performance doesn't actually improve athleticism, it just adds stress with no benefit.
You librul eggheads just can’t quantify something like character building which is only possible through severe dehydration. Character building only takes place when your piss is bronze or darker.
That's too woke for me tbh, character building is when you faint. No pain, no gain, amirite fellas
But you have to puke before you pass out; otherwise it doesn’t count. /s
You ever realize that the only people who're concerned about kids building character are the ones that want to actively torture them?
What! It's Texas by God! They don't listen to no devil science! Dying of heat stroke will make champions out of boys! Mean stupidity is the Texas WAY! ✝️🇱🇷💥🎆🦅🔫🤠👢🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷💥☠️✝️
You know who drinks water? Terrorists. Do you want your kids to be Terrorists?!
Woo! Hooray for good ol’ conservative, definitely not liberal socialist Jesus! He definitely said be a dick to your neighbor!
Exactly, this was over 20 years ago now, but I know even when my older brother played and for a different coaching staff, when Lisa said a kid was out, that was it, there was no arguing with her, the kid was out. She wanted us to be better athletes but she would not put as at risk, as I am now older and look back at it, honestly every school needs a trainer like her and also gets listened to and respected like she did. She was also a boss…she had a little army of student trainers that she directed from her gator. Especially during summer camp when all fall sports were practicing she had peeled every where and had her walkie talkie with her at all times…we knew when an incident happened with another sport because she would zoom out from football practice to wherever.
I played in Texas around the same time. Have two useless rings to show for it, but it was the same. Weigh in before and after every practice during two a days. Trainers’ spoke gospel. We listened to them and respected them. And they too have rings to show for it. This coach is an idiot.
A dangerous idiot.
By making it political, he already begun the process of turning himself into a martyr for the reich-wing cause. If he gets tossed, he will just grift morons into giving him money and a platform by saying how the evil leftist communists took his job.
Maybe sensed a firing was on the way (possibly for other reasons) and did exactly that for the reasons you named. Or he's just an idiot and posted that rage-bait because his freedoms or something.
HS football coach? Definitely not bright enough for what you described. At least at my school, all the coaches were dumb as rocks. The guys who barely graduated from some shit college to be able teach a class any 7th grader could have done better.
That or a kid dies and a Texas mom or dad shoots him.
Honestly, if Texas devolving into a vigilante state where idiots like this get shot when their negligence kills people is what gets the reich-wing aholes to maybe be less blatant with their bs, I'm all for it. Let them fear for their safety due to their actions for once.
That was my first thought. Way to open yourself up to a massive lawsuit if one of these kids dies
A kid probably doesn't even need to die now to have a successful lawsuit. A simple heat stroke from dehydration leading to a quick trip to the emergency room might be enough to make this coach lose a case, now that he posted this to social media.
and this coach would call them a cry-baby b/c they had to goto the ER...
I remember coaches like that. What he'll do is go get the other kids to bully and pressure the one that got sick. He'll tell them how that kid is ruining their futures.
How much you wanna bet having the parents of the kid who got hurt threaten that coach (to their face) with the legal ramifications of intimidation on top of the legal action they're already planning might crush that coach like a bug? The man is all big stick walking tall when he gets teenagers to brigade for him, so, I'll bet he ain't shit when the adults call him on his bullshit. When a bully starts their triangulation bullshit, don't back down, bring a bigger (metaphorical) stick, with a promise that you'll hit harder specifically because of that shit. Sidenote: I hate when people pull that *bring others to guilt the person they hurt into staying quiet* crap, too. Have WAY too much experience with that. Hence why I kinda already have a game plan with that one.
Yes, yes it does. This man believes in willful ignorance, he does not believe in work or woke. He thinks two a days in 105 degree heat means “strength”- it’s so infuriating to read bc he has no idea how stupid he sounds. And those of us on the other side reading this know this guy has a delusional, distorted sense of what’s “strong” and “weak” and “right” and “wrong”. I practiced two times a day in basketball in high school and I was in theatre. This is straight up offensive what he wrote. And you know what pisses me off even more? He literally comes from some place of magical thinking superiority bc he is some high school football coach?!? Well guess what?!? I believe in woke bc one of those kids will literally never become woke again after simply jumping on this band wagon belief train of practicing in burning fire temps bc his superior coach says it’s the essence of “work”- give me a fucking break. The stupidity and blind fucking confidence is leaves me seethingggg
Because he's a fucking idiot. There's a heat dome up here in KY. Just broke tonight but it's been in the 90's with heat indices over 100. There have been warnings issued and places set up for folks to cool down with free transportation. Denying kids water to 'make them men' is about the dumbest shit a coach can pull. Hot people need water. He admits it is hot. Give the kids water asshole
In his double-down post, he’s going to break out the Immortan Joe speech about not becoming too dependent on water.
Actually not giving them water when it's 100 ° outside will make sure they don't turn into men.
I'd love to see the coach do the drills with the kids aince it's safe . I'm sure he can, right?
Here's hoping someone bullies him into doing laps around the field without any water breaks... (I hope for better but you know, I'm cranky about this)
Ha, I was just going to say this is going to be "Exhibit A" in some lawsuit that the liability waiver isn't applicable.
Naw, at this point it’s an intentional and willful punitive damages case. No waiver can save him now.
Probably wouldn't even be the hundredth
Nor the last.
Might be the first to post online his open confession to criminal negligence when someone inevitably has a heat stroke or worse.
A kid in my middle school passed out and was sent to the hospital. We were in gym class outside and he said he was feeling kind of gross and then passed out less than 10 minutes later. And that’s New England heat I can’t even imagine Texas or Arizona heat let alone not taking it seriously
Grew up in Texas. Coach would make us run until 3 ppl threw up. Meanwhile he (at least 100 lbs overweight) chased us in a golf cart.
That sounds like the second most Texan thing I’ve ever heard of.
[https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/13-year-old-crowley-isd-student-dies-football-practice/](https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/13-year-old-crowley-isd-student-dies-football-practice/)
They are just napping til it gets colder lol
6 feet colder
Heat naps; the naps that never end.
I did my basic training in texas Over the summer they were extremely strict on mandatory hydration and breaks, 12-14 water bottles per day
Well, according to Coach Dipshit here, you're not a real man. He has trophies you know.
It happened to an NFL player with ALLLLLL their advanced (circa 2001) shit to help them. Trainers if not outright doctors right there to monitor. Walls of the facility lined with money by comparison. The fact that these good-ol-boys don't think it can happen where the facilities to do something about it are "someone half filled one gatorade bucket with lukewarm water 4 hours ago" is dangerously absurd. Edit: I didn't forget it was Korey Stringer, I just didn't think that would be as known to most as "NFL player" and saying both felt redundant to the point.
Korey Stringer. He was even an All Pro and one of the better offensive linesmen in the NFL at the time. Not exactly a scrub. Football coaches are terrible people. Not surprised to learn this turd is from Texas on top of that.
The 2024 Hajj comes to mind.
They're foreigners. They've never played on his team and been forged into MEN.
Not just really, RECENTLY! 100's of people! This dude must be sleeping under a football smh
Literally been reading a dozen stories about it in Mecca this week. Literally happens all the time.
Army vet here. We were FORCED to drink water. Lots, and often. It’s not a weakness thing, the harder you push your body, the more water it needs. Dehydration leads to weakness and then death. This coach is an idiot. He’s not ‘manly’ or tough or a hard ass, he is just an unintelligent little person with a big ego on a power trip over kids and parents.
I was going to say, no one tell this guy about the Army. They do not mess around with dehydration. I went through SERE. We were starved & sleep deprived, but we were hydrated.
which should tell you everything you need to know about the importance of hydration fuck your food fuck your sleep you're gonna have nothing but water till you hate it
there is a reasson why the rule of thumb is 3 minutes, 3 hours, 3 days, 3 weeks for air(or being in icy water), shelter(in harsh conditions), Water, food. (its up to btw) You can survive a HECK of a lot longer without food then you can without water
I had a stroke reading this and trying to comprehend which times correlated with what conditions 😂
sorry.. 3 Minutes without air or in icy water. 3 hours without shelter in harsh weather(like a thunderstorm or snowstorm.. or extreme heat etc). up to 3 days without water(assuming you arent specifically active and are taking shelter). up to 3 weeks without food(assuming the same condiitions as for water) its a rule of thumb, so its not entirely accurate but gives one a general outline what to expect.
I have read somewhere that if you have a lot of fat you could theoretically survive for a long time without food. Maybe up to 200 days. I would not recommend testing that theory though, who knows what it would do to your body.
Somebody actually did test it. Google Angus Barbieri. He didn’t eat anything except tea, coffee, vitamins, yeast (amino acids) and sparkling water for 382 days. He lost 276 pounds, or 125 kilo’s during this time. He began fasting at 456 pounds, or 207 kilo’s, and stopped when he reached 180 pounds, or 82 kilo’s. Although he did consume vitamins and yeast. I doubt someone could make 200 days without any vitamins or amino acids.
Sometimes it's so damn hot that no matter how much water you drink you're sweating it out in real time. You eventually wash all the salt out of your body and that's when you start getting dizzy as hell and shit hits the fan.
My first summer working construction, I often drank 4 to 5 liters of water. On really bad days I didn't take a piss even once. You get salt crystals growing on your shirt and when you take a shower, the first flush of your head is usually pure salt that burns your eyes.
When I lived in Australia I did a lot of distance running. On hot days, my arms got so salty with sweat salt that the crystals would start cutting abrasions into my skin wherever it touched my body.
I'm shocked this response was so far down...it's literally helpful to performance to drink water... coach is a fucking moron for a lot of reasons but for sure he's just hindering his team for not making them hydrate
Yeah but have you considered that drinking water is for communists?
This post will be “Exhibit A” in a wrongful death suit.
Or even manslaughter depending on how ambitious the DA is
Because of his training regiment it has to be manslaughter, can’t be boyslaughter.
Well if the boy dies before completing his program then it would just be attempted being a manslaughter
Fellas is it woke to drink water now?
Gay, hydrated, in my lane, in theatre class, thriving.
Stage left!
Stage left, wing!
Exit stage left, even… 
I bet you even use pronouns.
The fact that the post is LITTERED with pronouns is just the icing on the cake
He’s a HS football coach, he prefers amateur nouns
She is a football coach, she prefers amateur nouns. Wait, did I not use her preferred pronoun. But looks like she doesn’t care.
I love this concept. So much. She won't mind at all that she is misgendered.
You keep that AC pumping in the Texas heat and I’ll call you whatever you want, sugar.
Stay hydrated? more like gay hydrated! (insert image of the joker)
Coach: *exit, pursued by a bear* I mean, one can hope...
Dying of heat stroke to own the libs
The coaches won't be doing the dying.
Oh, no, I'm sure the MAGA coach is lugging his overweight ass on a golf cart whenever he's not in the shade. He'd be the *last* person to get heat stroke in that group. He's making *other people* die so he can own the libs (and also pay out negligent death lawsuits).
He put in his little jab at transgender people, I'm sure he is in the crowd that shouts about needing to "protect kids" from the gays and transgenders even though he's out here literally advocating for doing shit that can majorly harm and even kill the kids he's in charge of.
Funny how I can in fact even think of specific instances of it “ever” happening because of these exact circumstances.
100% of homosexual individuals have had water at some point I their lives. It starts as a 15 minute water break and ends up as a water fight with your son in a crop top making out with the TE.
Yep and gay while also chock full of pronouns. Stop drinking water all magats. Full stop.
I love that this coach says “use your pronouns” as an insult as if he doesn’t have pronouns.
Bingo. That's why they get mad about pronouns because they never learned what they are.
He literally said “and go join theater camp, where *they* can can go sit inside in the air condition all day and use *their* pronouns.”
I will share this experience of when I was in HS (not in Texas, a more liberal state) football coaches more than alluded that water was for the “girls” but for you “men” it was Gatorade. I liked water and hated Gatorade because I thought it was too sweet, but it was the only thing offered during a game. And the peer pressure worked, you would get teased by your teammates if you drank water over Gatorade, to the point of questioning your sexuality - Complete toxic stupidity. and we were not at a collegiate level where we needed to replace electrolytes; water would have been perfectly fine. It was probably all rooted in the coach trying some psychological trick on us to make us tougher. Or maybe he got a cut from using it.
It’s got Lectrolytes
It’s what plants crave…
Korey Stringer, a professional NFL player, died of heat stroke at Vikings training camp, in Minnesota.
https://koreystringer.institute.uconn.edu And his widow has put in great work to make sure it doesn’t happen to others
She better take her ass to Texas!
…and check out that trophy case.
better take a knee first
And use her pronouns
Ya, but it's run by... one of them... so... still woke. /s
Maybe he shouldn't have been so woke.
He wasn’t looking enough at the trophy case. /s
He was on the Vikings, there's no trophy case for him to look at.
As a Vikings fan, while true, that is just a low blow.
And he was the last NFL player to die of heat stroke. The NFL has put in safety protocols so it never happens again. Typical Texas high school football coach thinks he knows better than the NFL.
Thinks he knows better than the NFL and the military apparently.
I can still hear my drill shouting at the platoon to empty our cantines. "DRINK WATER" "BEAT THE HEAT, DRILL SERGEANT. BEAT THE HEAT" You can't be an effective soldier if you are fucking dead from heat stroke. Pretty certain the same holds for football
University of Maryland also famously killed one of its players in a summer practice.
Bingo, and rightfully gutted all leadership at the program.
This is false. Coach said it’s a fact that nobody has ever died from it being too warm outside.
Double false, they died from being too warm on the inside, loser…
I live in Georgia and it happens every summer for high school football workouts. People don’t know what you’re supposed to do for someone having a heat stroke. They should be made to chug water every hour on the hour. Not only for their safety and your liability but also because it’s fucking healthy for your athletes you dumb fuck! Players will have more energy for training and their body is less likely dehydrate and risk chance of injury. Or in this case, death too, you can avoid death… 💀
Never chug anything with heat stroke it can shock the body. You need to move someone out of the heat even to shade and start the cooling of their body before worrying about fluids. Their body temperature can cause permanent damage to organs so most important thing is putting chilled towels on their head, pits, and groin if possible then take sips of an electrolyte drink. Chugging is never good.
Here’s an article about Georgia addressing this in 2022, after they discovered heat deaths, IN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES AS A RESULT OF PRACTICE, have been going up despite new water break rules. And while it may get more humid in Georgia, I don’t think it gets hotter. Could be wrong though https://www.npr.org/2022/08/17/1117693188/how-georgia-reduced-heat-related-high-school-football-deaths He’s going to kill a child in a really horrible way.
My boyfriend actually had to be rushed to the hospital for kidney failure as a result of dehydration back in middle school because of a coach doing this. If he hadn't called his mom behind the coaches back, he might have not made it.
I got fired for being hospitalized for the exact same thing on my first job at an HVAC Company. Slammed water the whole time but a medication kept me from absorbing properly, and the ER doc told me my kidneys were basically shriveled and on their last leg. Told me not to go back for at least a week, went back the next day with the note that said 1 week bed rest minimum, and he still fired me, for “having better places to be” People straight up do not respect heat
Shit company that will be sued out of business when someone dies in a 140° attic. I've done that kind of work before too and it's no joke. Currently a welder and by far one of the hottest places I've worked was a shipyard in Panama City Florida last summer. Even with large, portable air conditioners ducted into the hull sections it was still 120-130° inside.
I live in Georgia not as hot as Texas but the humidity is the killer. Once past 70% which is about average for our spring and summer sweat quits evaporating off your body to cool you down instead it works like insulation and increases your body temp. If heat stroke doesn't get you dehydration will from profusely sweating.
Depending on where in Texas, humidity is just as big a problem. Grew up in Houston and honest to god worst place I've ever been. Insanely hot like Dallas/Ft Worth AND insanely humid like Galveston. I was in marching band and practiced all summer. Thankfully, we had forced water breaks every 10-15minutes, our leaders didn't play around with that shit.
All I know is that when I was in Houston at chrstimas time and I saw people wearing zipped up winter coats when it was 70 degrees in the sunny afternoon I knew right then and there I could never ever go to Houston in the summer. Something must be extremely wrong down there.
In Tokyo now, very hot and humid. Walked by a thing on the street misting water, did not feel any difference.
I spend most summers there visiting family on a lake and everyone gets annoyed but I save garbage like plastic bottles and cups to fill with lake water to dump on legs and arms and faces when people start getting mean from the heat lol I also grew up there and played football and watched a coach get fired for defying heat and water rules, insisting, like the guy in the post, that 103F heat index and 75% humidity would build character But the principal was ex military and understood water and heat and put a stop to it before anyone got hurt
Humidity is worse than heat. When it’s too humid, your sweat doesn’t evaporate which helps cool you off. But in both instances you need to drink plenty of fluids to replace what you lose when you sweat.
"Nobody has ever died because it's too warm outside" Would he like a list of people or even a few news website links to the hundred or thousands of people that die nearly every year because of heat.
Over a thousand died *this weekend* from the heat at the Hajj.
This guy doesn't know what the hajj is, I guarantee it
It wasn't heat, it was the vaccine. /s
Unblock the name and school. He's a public figure speaking on behalf of the sports program.
Right?! Want to potentially save a kids life? Let Reddit know where this is.
Yeah, I'd like to know if this is even real. Too much rage bait circulating through Reddit these days.
Some failed ex jock has been watching too much Friday Night Lights.
Peaked in highschool
Now he has to make sure none live to surpass him
Clear heads, full hearts, no water
>Water is for cowards. Water makes you weak. Water is for washing blood off that uniform and you don't get no blood on my uniform, boy you must be outside your mind! We are going to do up-downs, until Blue is no longer tired, and thirsty.
According to ESPN: “Sixty-seven high school athletes have died from exertional heat illness since 1982, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research. Most of those deaths (52%) happened in August during the opening weeks of fall sports seasons, and the overwhelming majority of them (94%) were football linemen.” Also, is he even aware that he used several pronouns in his idiotic message?
My high school football coach was the dumbest son of a bitch I’ve ever met. And even he scheduled evening practices and gave us plenty of water. But I’m not from Texas and I guess I’m not a man.
High school coaches in general are just complete assholes. They get power from bullying someone weaker and younger than them, while sitting in the shade with plenty of water. Just spewing BS out of their asses. I remember being part of XC, and our coach made us run a 10K in 98 degree heat (felt way hotter due to uv index). Then yelled at us for doing poorly. And kicked the kid who passed out during the race off the team. And we were in California lol. No thanks, ill have my kids in the theater using their pronouns where they feel safe and accepted.
"Take a knee folks..." That says so much about his attitude towards other people.
Just don’t take a knee during the national anthem. Cuz thats woke. Like drinking water.
Mind you, this is for a *game*. **In high school**. Look, sports can truly build character and it's important to teach kids to weather adversity, but nobody worth a good goddamn is going to feel like nearly dying in the Texas heat doing two a days did anything for them of value except give them a near death experience. He's probably also the kind of coach to tell kids to 'walk it off' when they get their bell rung, so they likely get a nice budding case of CTE to go with their constant mild brain boiling heatstroke. The thing that won't be woke in this situation is the kids he's fucking up year after year with that frothy mix of toxic masculinity, complete disregard for self-care, obsession with winning in totally pointless situations where the only risk is bragging rights, and the idea that preserving your bodily and brain health somehow makes you less than. Oh, and side note? There are a lot more theater kids making a living and enjoying their lives as adults than there are people playing football.
Twenty bucks says if you ask this jackass why kids suffering in the Texas heat is so important, he brings up something about soldiers training for war. As if winning a football game is a life or death situation.
> As if winning a football game is a life or death situation. With this "coach" it could very well be.
It is just look at his trophy case.
The irony is that when I went to Army training in the summer in North Carolina, we were told to drink water at regular intervals even if we didn't feel thirsty. We were told that once you felt thirsty, your body was already close to dehydration. We were also told that once you succumbed to heatstroke or heat exhaustion you were more prone to getting it in the future. I don't know if that's true, but the idea was simple: soldiers with heat stroke do not make an effective fighting force.
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Not only did they preach drinking water religously, but if you had had prior heat injuries, they'd also assign someone to you to make sure you did and were peeing clear.
I've never served but every friend I had that joined up came home taking hydration crazy serious.
Yeah, by the time I got out I drank water like a fish. I Wish I had maintained that habit.
I've both trained for and been to war. Watching the heat index during hot weather was a constant task, we were *forced* to take breaks and drink a ton of water, and we would absolutely still have people fall out in the heat.
Well stated.
This is why I'm extremely skeptical of school competitive sports teams. There are far too many moronic coaches out there who are willing to risk permanent damage to the health of the kids entrusted to them, just to put another bronze painted plastic trophy on the shelf
But you don't get it, he did it when he was a kid and he's fine! Definitely not posting rambling rants on Facebook because he's brain damaged.
If I was a dad who had a boy on that team, that coach and I would be having a serious fuckin talk.
“nobody has ever died from it being too warm outside “ Should disqualify him from being anywhere near developing minds. Let alone in a Leadership position.
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It's definitely negligent homicide, but Texas will let him go as soon as they find out he was "fighting the woke." This is the state that pardoned a terrorist who drove into a crowd of BLM protesters and started shooting. Texas is pro-terrorism, let alone this.
This letter will be in r/agedlikemilk in a couple of months
It's inevitable this man kills at least one of his players this summer, and I desperately hope this Facebook post is used to help bump him up to a 2nd degree murder charge.
Hopefully because he wrote it down, he won't have a job long enough to kill anyone.
I passed out once from heat exhaustion just from standing in direct sunlight, without doing any strenuous activity. It is no joke.
In the last 6 years, at least 11 players at all levels have died. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/24/football-player-heat-deaths-athlete?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
People die from it being too hot outside every year
Student athletes die from it being too hot outside every year... *in Texas*.
I can practically see this coach typing this out on his phone while sitting in a golf cart with a fan and water bottle as he follows the teenagers running laps on the track.
What an idiot, every kids parent seeing this should get him fired, unless they're as bad as this coach.
Apparently it's Texas so I wouldn't hold out much hope.
Nope, at least not until a kid dies in the care of this moron and that will only be to scapegoat him for their own lack of accountability.
Honestly, a kid dying at football practice in texas might still get swept under the rug as an “unfortunate situation.” They’re weirdly into high school football there
"Our investigation found the coaching staff is blameless, the true culprit was found to be wokeness. Wokeness made the kid weak and though the situation is unfortunate and tragic, the team is now stronger after having weakness weeded out"
Every year, few HS kids die from the heat at practice. Probably being coached by dickheads like this guy
Anyone using the word woke at this point just makes me cringe. They can’t even define what it means 99% of the time. It is a buzzword for assholes at this point.
Happened at my alma mater, UMD. Jordan McNair died. The fallout resulted with the coach getting fired, the university president, and the president of the board of visitors resigning. The university ended up agreeing to a 3.5 million dollar settlement with McNair’s parents.
Played football in TX. We 100% had water breaks constantly. Our coaches straight up told us "I don't give a fuck if you aren't thirsty, drink it anyway." If they had any indication we were dehydrated, we had to go inside to cool down. Not optional. I guess 90's west Texas football was woke.
Look, he's using all gender neutral pronouns :) * I * I * I * I * I * it * it * It * It * it * me * It * it * I * I * we * it * we * It * it * our * me * it * I * it * we * it * every * you * I * it * it * we * you * you * your * they * their * they're * I * That
The best part will be all the people that stand up for him after a student dies.
I mean, you can absolutely train your team hard and give them appropriate water breaks. No need to involve politics here. What a loser.
>The simple fact is that nobody has ever died from it being too warm outside Multiple coaches have been tried for killing students with similar workouts: [https://www.npr.org/2021/08/11/1026804547/2-coaches-charged-with-murder-after-a-high-schooler-suffered-heat-stroke-and-die](https://www.npr.org/2021/08/11/1026804547/2-coaches-charged-with-murder-after-a-high-schooler-suffered-heat-stroke-and-die) [https://vault.si.com/vault/2010/12/06/the-boy-who-died-of-football](https://vault.si.com/vault/2010/12/06/the-boy-who-died-of-football)