Tulane Strength Coach Fired For Making A Member Of The Bowling Team Run For Being An Hour Late To Practice
Nola – Several current and former Tulane student-athletes have spent the past 12 hours reacting to news that assistant Green Wave strength and conditioning coach Stephanie Sharpe was dismissed following an incident involving the bowling team, according to several sources.
Sharpe, who has worked for the university since 2007, worked closely with the football team and ran with coach Curtis Johnson after practices. She was a constant figure around the university’s athletic headquarters and well-liked by several members of the football team.
Some in that number took to Twitter late Tuesday evening to express their frustration and amazement that Sharpe was let go for what former Tulane ace pitcher Randy LeBlanc and former Tulane cornerback Lorenzo Doss tweeted was discipline running for a bowling team member who was an hour late for practice.
The university called it a personnel matter and refused to comment on it. Several members of the bowling team were contacted and also refused to comment. Sharpe did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Johnson deferred comment to athletic directors Rick Dickson and Barbara Burke. Spokesman Roger Dunaway said no one from Tulane would comment.
But that didn’t stop a host of Sharpe supporters from voicing their opinions and desire for her return by tweeting and using the hashtag #bringstephback.
Haha, find me a better Pussification of America and Colleges story on the internet right now, I dare you. A strength and conditioning coach…who, if you need it spelled out for you, is a person who is paid a salary to strengthen and condition athletes*…was fired from that job for conditioning. A coach, who’s in a position of training and teaching and pushing kids to be the best they can be, given the boot for punishing someone with a light jog. Unreal. I mean I guess that’s where we’re at now? Where you can stroll into any practice you want 1 full hour late and have absolutely zero consequences for it? Pretty sweet America we’re building here.
*I guess we’re putting bowlers in the “athletes” category now? What’s next, cornhole players? I guess that’s the only strike against Steph here, if you had to nitpick. Why bother wasting your time disciplining the fucking bowling team.
