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Norm on player protests
Posted on: October 11, 2016 at 09:20:54 CT
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In addition to continuing to support protégé Kim Anderson, among the topics was how Stewart, 81, would handle any inclination of his players to engage in protest with athletes around the nation more involved in that now than since the early days of Stewart’s coaching career.
Stewart thought of one of his first players, David Pike, who wanted to take part in a sit-in at the chancellor’s office.
Stewart recalled asking Pike, who died in 2015, “David, what do they want?” When Pike said he was unsure, Stewart said he told him to go find out and that if it was “something we believe in, I’ll go with you … Maybe I’ll want the ballclub to go.”
Pike soon returned and said he was going to practice because he couldn’t understand what the group sought, Stewart said.
“So I think today everybody has to look at the circumstances and the situation, and you make intelligent decisions,” he said. “I’ve never met anyone in the coaching profession who didn’t want to help somebody else if it was for a good cause. I just haven’t met them.”
That said, Stewart considers it all delicate and complex.
“To me, if I were an athlete, my first obligation was that the school gave me a scholarship ….” he said. “Obviously, (as a player) I’m free to express what I want to express.
“But there’s a lot of funny sayings, cute sayings about doing things in a fan … They better be prepared, because not everybody agrees with them.
In addition to continuing to support protégé Kim Anderson, among the topics was how Stewart, 81, would handle any inclination of his players to engage in protest with athletes around the nation more involved in that now than since the early days of Stewart’s coaching career.
Stewart thought of one of his first players, David Pike, who wanted to take part in a sit-in at the chancellor’s office.
Stewart recalled asking Pike, who died in 2015, “David, what do they want?” When Pike said he was unsure, Stewart said he told him to go find out and that if it was “something we believe in, I’ll go with you … Maybe I’ll want the ballclub to go.”
Pike soon returned and said he was going to practice because he couldn’t understand what the group sought, Stewart said.
“So I think today everybody has to look at the circumstances and the situation, and you make intelligent decisions,” he said. “I’ve never met anyone in the coaching profession who didn’t want to help somebody else if it was for a good cause. I just haven’t met them.”
That said, Stewart considers it all delicate and complex.
“To me, if I were an athlete, my first obligation was that the school gave me a scholarship ….” he said. “Obviously, (as a player) I’m free to express what I want to express.
“But there’s a lot of funny sayings, cute sayings about doing things in a fan … They better be prepared, because not everybody agrees with them.
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