Male student-athletes don't respect women. That's what I've experience here as a Coach. Every season I talk to my players about how they relate to women. The most common example I use of a good time gone wrong is what happened to the Duke Lacrosse players. One bad decision, I tell them, can lead to a lifetime of agony.
A few situations have arisen over the years that I've had to address. One night after a home game I saw a random car outside the Athletic Center shaking violently. The windows happened to be foggy as well. I thought nothing of it until some guys I was about to drive home began to chuckle. As we sat down in the car, they were straight up dying.
Me: What the hell is so funny?
Goofy: (laughing hysterically)
Duncan: You don't realize whose car that is? You blind, Coach?!?!
Goofy: yo! He's getting it in right now!!
Me: Y'all are acting like big kids right now! If you want a ride home, you better tell me what's up!
Duncan: (laughing) Don't be mad at us, coach! We in here with you tryin to get home.
Goofy: (gasping for breath) Yo. He gets no burn so he's getting a workout in now!
I flashed my lights on the car and the movement stopped. Suddenly a couple of shadows emerged behind the fogged windows and I saw two people pulling themselves together. Vinny, a bench warmer, was having a rendez-vous in his car outside the Athletic Center with a young woman the guys tended to gravitate towards. I'd heard rumors the week before about some student "sucking off" three of my guys in a car and made nothing of it.
It took a couple of weeks, but I finally realized who the guys were referring to as "Bucket."
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