so i'm gonna give a warning okay uh to
our viewers
um because if you haven't seen this
uh as viral video on the internet
it's disturbing um say the least so just
fair warning
um it's uh it's shocking
um but we're gonna show you video um
of alexis cobb he's a so-called coach
not once not once
but twice does he strike
a nine-year-old oh a nine-year-old child
here's a second time there we go sick a
nine-year-old child
or a member of the savannah gators this
was a youth football
national championship in kissimmee
florida
that this so-called coach
yeah where we are we go to them in a
second we'll get to them in a second
we're gonna get to them in just a second
um that's not his child um
not that it being his child would make
it any better but just you know that's
not his child
here was this so-called
so-called apology
of everybody that's seen the video and
everyone have something negative to say
you know i'ma apologize for my actions
about what took place
but at the end of the day i'm a man and
i'm not gonna make no excuses for what i
did
i was wrong i shouldn't have disciplined
him in public i shouldn't wait till he
got back for doing what he did
at the end of the day i apologize to him
the kids the city down here and
my family back at home i do apologize
there's no excuse for my actions you
know
i hope well he forgave me and his
parents haven't given me
so nobody else should be bashing thank
you
nah play it ain't that simple i wish
we'd let it run a little longer
because at the end he looks like okay
are we done
like like if you see the whole clip's
like are we done is that good enough for
y'all
like it comes across not only as
insincere disingenuous it comes across
like yo what do y'all want from me all
right i messed up i'm sorry you know
okay fine yeah did i offended if i'm
sorry that the people are offended
that's that's what you know he said the
parents are getting public
oh that's a birthday plan in public but
in private
he'd probably be still hitting the poor
child if they were in private
public private it doesn't matter what's
okay so there's a lot of things wrong
with this but to unpack this let's start
with this
because this has been everybody's
universal reaction and i'm wrecking my
brain because i'm assuming we don't see
the angle we don't see the stands we
don't see who was there
but i'm assuming when he turned around
and he was yelling
i'm gonna hope that he was yelling at
somebody
who was trying to tell him to leave that
poor child along
alone i'm hoping that that's what he was
saying because
i find it hard to believe that there
were people adults in the stands
watching this that weren't as a paul at
weren't as appalled as the rest of us
are watching this online or watching it
just now
i'd like to think like say bro he'd have
got a two-piece and a biscuit
with rice and fries for from me or you
if we'd have been there
i would like to think that i would like
to think that i would have done
something
i'd have went and confronted him if not
beat the piss out of him
yeah on his front hand
and this is not and i'm not trying
michael i'm not trying to be a tv tough
guy
i ain't trying to be a tv tough guy
right now i don't know dude but what i
do know is that's a helpless child
and that's not coaching that's not
discipline
that's not what that is that's abuse
that's assault he should be reprimanded
and he goes back yes he should be
reprimanded
if not prosecuted and definitely
disciplined himself
should never see a football field so
what do i want more than that apology
i don't care if the parents have
forgiven you maybe the parents got an
issue
and you know what they're not paranoid
they're talking to
why are we taking his word for it why
are we taking his word for what is that
parenting
i've forgiven him and so everybody else
stay out my business
i haven't heard from the parents what
what what are the parents
what have they said to him it could be
hey i i have to forgive you because you
know i i need to forgive you
or otherwise i'm gonna ring your neck or
i'm gonna forgive you but
hey stay away from me i don't know what
they said bro i'm not a helicopter
parent
but like i'm not asking questions you
touch my child like that i'm diving on
you
like i said yeah i mean that's it
there's no there's no there's
you know that's not tough coaching
that's not instruction that's not
teaching and i want to know
why they they didn't do it okay they
didn't do it and it's funny how it's
kind of you said we
we're pivoting but we're really not
pivoting from one set of cowards to
another set of cowards that's right but
look at the theme here look at the
common denominator
how do you stand around
right and let this happen when you can
do
something to stop it it's the same thing
it's
so there was a guy there was somebody
that kind of stepped over
if we could run the video i know if we
could put us in the three box or
whatever but there was a guy that
that ran that walked over didn't do
anything but just kind of walk
closer to the situation what is what it
screams
is that this is not the first time he's
done this
right because they look at the kids look
at the kids he's the even the kid
himself
is standing there this seems normal
and i don't know and they're following
him but
covet or not you about to get these
hands
if that's my child because or even if
it's not my child
because you got somebody's got to
protect that child because i want
somebody to protect mine that's a child
he's nine years older
you know how do you know how much the
first time you see these other
officials over there they're for
official officials they didn't seem to
notice
they didn't seem to notice but if they
did then they were they were they didn't
do their
job everybody involved should be ashamed
of themselves anybody who saw it anybody
was there
but again i'm trying to just figure out
because you know sometimes michael
it's easier to say like oh if that had
been me or had i been there
or like let that have been me or i wish
you would know what would right
but then you get in a situation and
sometimes people freeze not everybody is
is as heroic as we like to think we
would be in situations
so i'm trying to figure out like what
what could have stopped somebody
from running onto that field some man
some woman like if there were mothers
and fathers in that stand
how can you how can you stop at yelling
at him
you know it's just and the damage that
he made god forbid he does damage to
this young man
or any of these other people who are
traumatized by it and decide
this ain't for me i don't want to play
this game i don't want to be this
that's not you said it michael that's
not instruction that's not coaching
that's for damn sure not love you know
this woody hayes bobby knight thing
i don't know where he learned it from
but he should never coach again
at at minimum he should never coach
again yes
wait what's his i want to know now i
want to know more about him i want to
know what he's done
like what why is he in coaching how did
he get in there
what are people saying about him
what is he doing in private that's the
first question what do you do
is this is this how you discipline your
players this would be a full-fledged
investigation there's just no place in
this
for this man there never was once upon a
time look i mean listen
when i played high school ball played
being a generous term
you know my coaches were were hard on me
i got
i got yelled at in ways that were
probably not flying in 2020. i got
called everything but a child to god
for throwing in accurate passes okay we
got we got run around the field until we
threw up
we got our water knocked over all kinds
of stuff
but what nobody putting their hands on
me like that right
and not and getting away with it you
know but you said you played
this is in high school though this was
high school yeah exactly that
this this is right and it's not it's not
acceptable in high school and it's
certainly not acceptable in literally
nine years ago well you ever noticed
that you ever think that maybe
your high school coaches wanted to
but at that but you're talking about
10th and 11th and 12th graders yeah and
and they're generally a little bit you
know maybe they're in their 40s
or 50s you want to mess around with a 16
17 year old
who's who've been lifting some weights
you know you're probably going to lose
that one coach
so they may have wanted to do it yeah
but it was
definitely they were at a disadvantage
but a nine-year-old
it's hard that was heartbreaking to
watch i mean it's not just
bad ones but twice it's terrible
coaching it's child abuse
it is so weak you're gonna go at a
nine-year-old
right really he can't do anything about
it he's defensive can't do it helpless
he's defenseless you know this is just
it's really it's really really sad and
what's sad is that he was allowed to do
it
and by allowed he may get punished on
the back end but by allowing in that
moment
somebody should have handled that guy
you know so all right you need to tell
me mike
and it comes easy to say from here but i
like to come back out they kept backing
about it
here you go mike you mean easy easy to
say from here but i like to think i
would have done something and i wish
that somebody from the stands would have
done something
there's no you mean just no reason for
that just to summarize
when all hell is breaking loose and you
stand around and you see it breaking
loose and you do nothing about it that
means you're complicit is that what it
means
that's exactly what it means okay so if
somebody's being crazy
and you don't do anything don't tell me
that you are against it you're for it
unless you step in and do something
about it or say something
so you're saying that coach might be a
republican
i think so hey thanks for watching
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