Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

[worm]

I mean a reasonable starting question is - why does a professional men's hockey coach have any reason to be looking at the personal photographs of his players?

Info to use against (I mean motivate) them later on.

 

[worm]

Bill Peters back coaching in the whl as well. At least one board member quit over it.

 

[Wayward DP]

Info to use against (I mean motivate) them later on.

exactly

 

[Wayward DP]

Bill Peters back coaching in the whl as well. At least one board member quit over it.

I'm all for second chances. He would just have to convince me that he realizes he was out of line in the past and is sincerely remorseful as a result. I doubt that took place, but who knows.

 

[worm]

I'm all for second chances. He would just have to convince me that he realizes he was out of line in the past and is sincerely remorseful as a result. I doubt that took place, but who knows.

By at least one account it didn't happen in any meaningful way.

 

[worm]

Here is what the board member said

Winning the right way matters more.

I've had a LOT of questions from colleagues, clients and community stakeholders over the last 48 hours. Everyone makes mistakes.

www.linkedin.com

Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone deserves a second chance. However, a penitent person must not only seek forgiveness but also demonstrate sorrow. The question for me is what is someone willing to do to demonstrate their repentance? What meaningful action have they undertaken to right past wrongs?

To not reach out directly and personally to Akim Aliu in a timely fashion would seem to be a pretty big gap from a meaningful action perspective. I'm also not clear on the outcome of the further allegations made by Michal Jordan.

 

[Wayward DP]

By at least one account it didn't happen in any meaningful way.

in that case, fuck that guy, and good on the board member for resigning. the old boys club lives another day.

 

[Preston]

What a fucking weirdo

 

[MyNameIsJonas]

what did he learn....exactly?

 

[Artnes]

Friedman trying to play this off as normal behavior?

 

[JackBurton]

Babcock acting like he cares about your family so you'll remember it when he humiliates you.
That 32 Thoughts podcast is garbage.

 

[SundinsTooth]

Maybe Babs is just a huge photophile.

 

[CH1]

each photo is worth 1000 words

Mike is just being efficient, is all

 

[MindzEye]

What a fucking weirdo

Does Elliott think this makes it sound better?

I'm a fucking photographer and I don't ask to see people's photos ffs.

 

[Jeremy]

It doesn’t sound like Babs did anything wrong. Just wanted to learn more about the players he recently started coaching by seeing pictures of their families.

 

[axlsalinger]

certainly could go either way. the idea that he asks about players' families and what they did this summer, maybe asks to see some photos, shows some of his own, in an attempt to get to know the player. Seems pretty harmless, if a little weird. May rub some guys the wrong way but doesn't seem like a big deal.

Or - does a player walk into his office for a scheduled meeting, and immediately get "ambushed" into hooking his phone up to some program so that they can view the photos on a big screen. Are there other people there? What if there's personal stuff the player would rather not share? Hard to say no though, when you're trying not to piss off the coach the first minute you meet him. This seems like gross invasion of privacy, and probably illegal.

 

[Jeremy]

Yeah, it would depend how Babs went about it. I’m assuming he asked to see the photos if the player was willing.

 

[Preston]

I mean either way he's a weird creepy psychopath that many players that played for him clearly hate

 

[Jeremy]

I mean either way he's a weird creepy psychopath that many players that played for him clearly hate

He actually might be a good person, we don’t know him personally. I didn’t hear many Leaf players complaining about him.

 

[zeke]

Try to unsee it.