I Dislike Your Favorite Team

What is it with coaches and their kids these days? It used to be that ministers’ kids were the ones to keep your eye on, but now it seems that if you have the offspring of a big time coach around, you must hide your drugs, guns, jewelry and anything else of value. North Carolina State’s Sid Lowe’s son is facing 20+ charges stemming from two separate attacks.

This incident is following on the heels of Andy Reid’s recent sabbatical to look in after his two devil kids. It also follows the very tragic suicide of Tony Dungy’s son last year, which is not a point of humor at all, only very tragic and sad. What could it be about being the son or daughter of a big time coach that makes these kids so wild? Maybe it’s the 18-hour days these guys put in that we hear so much about. “When the cat’s away…” Or is it, that any attention the kid should get, is always given to the players of the team first, then the team, then the institution…?

Another perfect example of a coach’s kid behaving badly is Monty Kiffin’s son Lane. He has gone and done the unthinkable by becoming the Raiders head coach. Ouch!

I did once meet Dave Wanstedt’s daughter when I was living in Key West and she was Spring Breaking at the hotel I worked at. She was very cool and smart, but I saw her in a drunken rage rip the arm of a frat boy from Delaware and make him shotgun the beer that his disembodied arm still held. She was badass, kind of like the minister’s daughter in “Footloose”, ‘cept different.

Maybe the leadership of major sports needs not only look at the behavior of its players, NFL and NBA I am looking at you, but also at the strains coaching puts on the families of the coaches. I mean look at that Bowden clan, or Bum Phillips kids ewww.