Another WIAC coaching change

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Another week, another WIAC coaching changeover that threatens to become rancorous. Although the school’s release says that Todd Strop resigned and does not make any reference whatsoever to the recent arrest of an outgoing Stout football player on drug charges, it’s hard from the outside not to draw a direct line and suggest that he was forced to resign over the actions of a couple of people in the program.

Justified? Who knows. None of us has inside knowledge. Is it a reaction to the five games the team lost by four points or fewer? Seems unlikely — the last game was played two months ago. Why wait until now?

23 thoughts on “Another WIAC coaching change”

  1. I don’t like to blame the off the field stuff on the coach when it’s the players who are making the decisions to be stupid. However cocaine is way above my definition of “stupid”.

    And the steriod issue sure makes it harder to ignore the coach’s connection to the player.

  2. Since steroids were mentioned I will give my two cents on the issue.
    1) We need to let the investigations go fourth before passing judgment without all the facts.
    2) D3 is the best thing going as far as integrity and honesty concerning cheating, steroids and illegal drugs. It is all of our responsibility not only to speak out against this but also to promote integrity in sports as a virtue not to be put behind or forgotten in lieu of winning.
    3) Coaches have a responsibility to promote integrity and a drug free environment by educating themselves on the issue and speaking to the team that such behavior will not be tolerated. So the old adage follows where the head goes the body will follow. Maybe a pledge sheet signed would be a good idea and not only promote the idea on the team but could be a positive message for the school as a whole.

    Since I was one of the voices in power lifting for the need of a natural organization I will give a few facts that are not commonly known.

    Steroids are readily available over the Internet now.
    Once an athlete takes steroids for one cycle a portion of the gains of strength and speed are permanent even after the athlete has stopped doing steroids. That is why when some of us lifted in the ADFPA which only required an athlete be drug free for a year and saw that former drug usurers dominated the top spots there was a need for an organization where athletes have never taken steroids. For instance a 300lb bench presser who does steroids becomes a 500lb bench presser will always be around 380-400lb after going off steroids. To me once a steroid user ALWAYS a steroid user.

    Steroids affect athletes differently. I have seen on of the best drug free power lifters go on and have just a little gain. One of the guys who lifted with me for three years a 330lb bench presser went on and in 6-8 months was a 580lb bench press.

    Some of the less known side effects are enlarged liver and kidney failure and growths especially on the nipples.

  3. Shepherd:

    That’s interesting. I didn’t know some of the steroidal performance enhancing affects were fairly permanent.

  4. Steroids will cause an early death, cheat now, pay later. Nobody should rush to judge the Stout coach. Coaches can advise all day long but it’s the player who must make bad/good choices, just like dealing with your own children.

  5. Anyone who uses steroids should are cheaters, and disgrace sports and sports fans.

    Look at Barry Bonds. If I was Hank Aaron, I would be furious.

    Shepherd was right that coaches need to push integrity – my high school coach would have no problem throwing the most talented kid off the team if he was breaking rules. However, not all coaches can control what all the players do – but they can kick them off the team.

  6. A coach might not see all the signs concerning the use of cocaine, but it is difficult to believe that a coaching staff would not notice the results of athletes using steroids.

  7. Perhaps I’m reaching some here, but…..is it just a bit ironic that this website has accepted an advertisement for a “testosterone booster” (3,6,17-Androstenitrione)? Granted, it’s not an anabolic steroid, but if I’m not mistaken, higher levels of testerostone are linked to potentially over-aggressive behavior. IMO, this ad’s appearance on a football website is not motivated by a desire to provide remedial help to those suffering from clinically-low levels.

  8. I haven’t seen it but if I find it I will look into it.

    Like most Web sites, we don’t sell our own space — we farm it out to the broker. I think you can probably tell who brokers most of our space thanks to the name at the bottom.

    Google will target ads to sites based on what the content of the site is. This particular page seems to be drawing a lot of talk about steroids.

  12. I’ve been getting Wendy’s for weeks … Somehow their ads have less punch without a picture of a burger shining with grease.

  14. Now I’m getting the Wendy’s ad, too. I promise it was there before. If it happens to pop up again, I’ll print the page and fax it to you.

    Speaking of hamburgers, I highly recommend Whataburger’s double double the next time you’re in Texas. For my money, it’s the best hamburger offered by any chain restaurants around.

  16. I saw it last night. I’ve tried again, but it’s not popping up. If it does, click on the link to see where it takes you. Pat says he’ll run it down through Google if he knows the source.

  19. Our trusty sources say there’s about to be another Another WIAC coaching change.

    Stay tuned.

    (OK, it’s already on the WIAC board. Oshkosh)

  20. Pat & Keith,

    I just printed out the top page on the Daily Dose and it has the avertisments for Testosterone Booster and Legal Steroids (Buy now). Please provide me a fax number and I will sent to you. My regular email address is taa1950@aol.com.

  21. It changed after I hit the submit comment tab. I was going to chase it and see where it went, but it disappeared.

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