Check out any or all of:
Scituate “Green Death” soccer coach resigns – Quincy, MA – The Patriot Ledger.
Coach Learns That Youth Sports and Satire Don’t Mix
Scituate ‘Green Death’ coach’s satirical e-mail causes national furor
Maybe there’s something to be said for quickly becoming the most famous coach of 7 year-old girls soccer in the nation. As a couple of the above articles suggest, while I can’t tell whether he’s a good coach, I’m sure of a few things:
- He’s not a very good writer
- Electronic communication, particularly email and social networking, are poorly understood and often poorly used media
- Bad writing can create problems
I’m not re-posting the original email (it’s linked above), but I can definitely see in it parts that are meant to be funny and parts that clearly are not. Smack in the middle, however, are comments whose intent are unclear. Many may have been clear if they’d been spoken (at a parents’ meeting, let’s say), but Coach Kinahan isn’t able to make his intent consistently clear in his writing.
I blogged earlier about social networking in youth athletics – my staff just lost a good young coach because he didn’t fully understand the implications of that communication.
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