Enormous Bowl-winning quarterback turned broadcaster Trent Dilfer is in hot water after video showed the now-highschool coach pushing and shouting at one among his avid gamers.
The incident occurred Friday evening in Lipscomb Academy’s 62-7 dangle. Dilfer has been head coach at Lipscomb since 2019, when he left ESPN as an analyst to flip to coaching. This video marks the principle recorded incident with a participant, and oddly sufficient, Beau Dawson, the participant shown, turned into the son of one more used NFL pro, kicker Phil Dawson.
Lipscomb wasted no time searching to procure before the video, posting an apology from Dilfer.
“I deserve to address the incident on the sideline throughout Friday evening’s sport versus Independence that has drawn numerous attention. Firstly, I recall all accountability as the top coach and chief of our crew for no longer deescalating an emotional scenario with one among our avid gamers, Beau Dawson. Beau is one among our most nice looking avid gamers and embodies the total traits we’re buying for in our Mustang avid gamers. Beau performs the game with the teach extra or less passion and is an inspiration to our other avid gamers. For the duration of a second of frustration and in an strive to procure our crew to play with extra discipline, I unfairly singled Beau out. By hook or by crook Beau Dawson has been portrayed publicly as the perpetrator on this scenario, when certainly, I could well quiet were the next chief and shown bigger knowledge and discernment in how I handled this incident. Total, I could well perhaps now not be extra pleased with Beau and the the leisure of our crew for a vogue they address the emotional nature of every sport they compete in.”
The apology from Dilfer isn’t wholly targeted on his maintain mea culpa, nonetheless also squashing a ludicrous line of thinking that got right here about from some who noticed the video, correct now assuming the participant one method or the other “deserved it.” Which, to be determined, is totally ridiculous. There is zero excuse for a coach to ever set apart their palms on a participant, particularly when the participant is a teen. Furthermore, somebody who says right here is staunch what formative years sports are relish is lying. I played basketball and rugby although highschool, and under no conditions as soon as encountered or witnessed an occasion where a coach purchased correct into a bodily altercation with a participant.
Dilfer’s apology got right here fast, it took keep apart of residing before the video went nationwide, and deflected any thought that Dawson “deserved” being shoved on the sideline and yelled at. Within the rupture he handled it essentially the most productive method seemingly, and optimistically he realized one thing from this and it under no conditions, ever happens all over again.
