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Football Coach Suspended After Forcing Students To Do 400 Pushups

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0:00 is there is there a line for how much they can make you do yeah if you're going to the hospital for some push-ups you're kind of weak bro I guarantee you none of us is going to the hospital I would go to the north for that many push-ups [Music] a Texas or Tejas High School football coach is on leave after parents said multiple students were hospitalized from being forced to do nearly 400 push-ups in a one hour workout that's crazy what do they have to go to go to the hospital for I saw David Lucas post about this and I I agree with his takeover 400 push-ups in 60 minutes that's like how many push-ups in a minute that's a lot it's a lot but it's also like like because that's like you gotta go

0:51 400 divided by it's one of those ████ Elementary School 6.6 push-ups a minute dude you could do six push-ups in a minute I guess so but it's consistently for 400 yeah but also though a lot of these for them they went to the hospital you could do six months push-ups in a minute for like first like 10 minutes but so what David Lucas said he goes David Lucas the comedian or David Goggins he goes um football is a gladiator sport he's like if you want to be a ████ go be a cheerleader so I I think like it Chappelle's like actually but even cheerleading is hard right like every sport I remember like every sport has a hell week yeah and in hell week yeah you're trying to shake off the rust from the summer or and it's incredibly hard it's more for this and yeah it's for

1:42 this discipline and you were too ashamed to even report that I go to the hospital like oh like I'm hurt like that's being like such a little ████ and it's crazy there's people that are willingly like yeah that was very hard for me take me in to the point where this coach has to go on a leave like that's crazy but I mean like even if you you have to do a thousand push-ups within an hour or whatever right you get rap dope you just ████ do it like I don't I don't understand like it's supposed to be hard you signed up for it but that's exactly what happened so ████ one parent said her son was later hospitalized with Rhabdomyolysis which is a muscle disorder brought on by stress that can cause kidney damage or failure that's his thoughts they didn't ask her why she has bad genetics so he basically got cut yeah he's out yeah this ████ came untrained so it's that or D train this guy's is this guy's fault is it is there

2:33 a line for how much they can make you do yeah if you're going to the hospital for some push-ups you're kind of weak bro I guarantee you none of us is going to the hospital I would go to the New York for that many push-ups like you shouldn't be doing sports is what I'm saying to me this is the same ████ if you tried out for the math team right and then like let's say okay everyone we got everyone has 100 questions if you got ████ five questions wrong you're getting cut like the coach holds a standard you make the standard you make the team if you don't make the standard then get the ████ out okay so do you think that standard is achievable 400 in an hour that's a lot I don't think the coach is pulling ████ out of his ass I think it's probably oh that's last year like they run the same program this is what we did last year and the year before that or it could be baked in like it's unachievable but they want to see their mental endurance does that too so it could be so many

3:23 different factors but true and this is the year that they're mental Honduras was like really good it was really good so they tried and they failed to place devil advocate though we had this one coach in like water polo in high school and he was like a good guy but he also had no idea what the ████ he was doing okay that's okay yeah he would just make us do ████ because it was hard and then as I got older like what like water pose notoriously for sure for sure but like it was things where like just to put us through pain just to put us through pain but then as you as I got older and I knew him later in my life because he would come around the MMA gym and the boxing gyms and I would know him and I'd be like this ████ couldn't do 10 push-ups either bro all right so it's like okay so there's like a sadism behind it exactly like there's certain coaches that are like yeah you need to do ████ because it's hard it's like an ego trip yeah he made his box like we were on the JV team he made his box of

4:13 seniors that's wild that's weird because he was a boxing guy right and I got knocked I think I got knocked out dude yeah that's not good yeah I don't think that's allowed though for sure for sure for sure but he was like oh yeah I'm a boxer he would tell us all that ████ and then like as I got older and as I got into the sport I was like this ████ couldn't punch out of a paper bag bro like he has no business ████ making 15 year olds box each other and this ████ doesn't even box and we weren't doing it safely so there is like there is that flip side where there can be coaches that have no idea what the ████ they're doing and they're like just do it because it's hard right yeah we always see it in mcdojo where we saw where we see all these martial artists that are just challenging their students but they're just abusing that video yeah the Judo guy those are wild videos by

5:03 the way so crazy another kid had died from being slammed oh of course so it's like okay there is that flip side because he kept getting slammed over and over and over and he just straight up died so if someone's getting raped though that's pretty serious that's pretty serious I would kind of scrutinize the the method so like why like I don't know anything about if it's K if it's possible or not or if it's damaging or whatever but it doesn't sound wild to me to expect a bunch of push-ups from 400 push-ups is nothing in the practice that's like you do more in the military don't you I mean like um even in ████ Drumline he did more push-ups because I remember you like Canon like we would go play right and then like let's say you play and then like there's always this thing called Integrity check so if you ████ up you know right so you just get down on the floor and you pump out 20. and then so like if you're like you play the same ████ again like I Integrity check like the the ████ drum captain or whatever

5:54 doesn't have to go you ████ up you ████ up before like people just go yeah I ████ up and they just take their ████ off and they okay but like Integrity check are you allowed to say 400 push up this is nothing 400 is nothing it adds up in like three yeah but look at you though like are you allowed yeah are you but if you play football any kid like you're just doing 20. I just wanted I just want an internet that's all you know what I mean yeah I blame the kids for not knowing how to sandbag yeah which is you gotta ████ pretend bro ████ you gotta be all I can't watch all you guys see when he's not turning just yeah hold and it just count you count and don't let them catch you 45 46 47 48 49 yeah I'm doing it hit some Michelangelo backhand spring do some hump push-ups and ████ dude have y'all ever gone like rap door or anything like that do you

6:45 know anybody like how bad is it it's pretty ████ bad I know someone that got it and it makes sense that she got it because she's like weak no no she's like the best but then she's also has a crazy strong mind so she pushed herself to that limit so her mental power is beyond her physical capability yeah it's like David guys like usually it's usually a person like David Goggins that would get it because they're so ████ crazy yeah their brain will literally like outwork their muscles yeah but I I have almost never heard of people really catching Rabb dough that's pretty extreme like crossfitters sometimes get it I need this one dude that got it from being in a CrossFit competition and he was like he was trying to hit the mark and he's like really competitive and then he got it but like he was okay afterwards but in the during it he was like it was the worst thing ever but it's pretty serious well you know what if I had cramps I

7:36 would have ████ cried and then went to the hospital exactly but I would have came back and said I'm sorry I had craps let me ████ make this ████ work because I know ████ all right let me finish these 400. do you think it's the coach's job to spot when someone might break down in fact they're gone get him out I would assume that uh it was it would be a high school coach's job to understand that it's like it's a high school student is all no matter what you know what I'm saying like there's I think there's a difference between like that's your profession versus this is your extracurricular activity for like high school that's true that's true but if you want to make it to the lead also depending on the high school Dependable High School yeah high schools that are on ESPN sure I I can understand that but you know and like they know Scouts are coming out to this thing so like that that's the cream that okay this is Texas right so Texas is a big football football is a big deal like it's a big deal this is from uh I mean Rockwall

8:28 Heath High School in Rockwall oh they're huge I don't know yeah they have a huge program what's the coach's record if he has like a crazy winning record down like his methods are probably pretty good but at least yeah yeah yeah yeah like our water polo coach he was like really hard on us but it was like it was for good reason guys but we're also like not that good like we were like okay [Laughter] we weren't known as a water polo team you know like but I've never heard of any water polo like anyone that goes oh yeah my coach was easy yeah exactly one of those hard like across the board yeah yeah there's there's a Texas high school football player who is defending that coach who's under investigation because um and in this it says that the coach was forcing players to do up to 400

9:18 push-ups as a punishment oh up to uh with no water breaks and stuff like that so vocabulary just makes it sound terminal you're easier man they did more push-ups than ████ Coach Carter yeah and all the suicides yeah because he had a if you want to get back on the team he would have to do but then the team had to jump in and help him out and stuff yeah so that's what they should have done my third grade teacher my ████ third grade teacher would give me impossible numbers to hit like everyone would be like no talking in class right 25 standards right they'll be like Bart you got 200. I'm like I can't even finish that in research I guess it's gonna take like 10 recesses and I'm like what ████ and then you got rhabdo do you got my fingers do you ever make the king just do ████ like that we don't do punishments well you guys should yeah we probably should one time this kid was showing me like so I used to do when I had to do those sentences like I will

10:09 not talk right I would do them one at a time and then he looks over and he goes you could do it like my way it's faster and then I was like how he goes I will not talk right because the scent the teacher would usually write out the first and he goes www and he goes down like that and I'm all like oh my God you're a g what I did and then my teacher ripped it up because you know when it says will w-i-l-l yeah I just dropped one line to the whole paper [Laughter] all of the ones that were like lines if there was its or whatever just like they want you to suffer that's what it is if it's a punishment they want you to go through it you know yeah but you know guys are failing like big time in the

10:59 school system right now it's really bad really yeah wow there's like a like there is a there's a gender gap going on right now where guys are like not graduating getting degrees is that due to the Ethiopian Indonesian Intercultural marriages yeah it's the highest rate Indonesians feeling Japan issues Japan issues it's Madagascar guys [Music]

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