Lakewood school board won’t hire Dave Daubenmire as football coach

[pstokely]

Source: Columbus Dispatch

The board voted 3-2 tonight to reject Superintendent Jay Gault’s recommendation to hire the controversial Daubenmire as Lakewood High School’s head football coach.

Daubenmire, 61, has been a provocative figure since 1997 when, as coach of London High School, complaints about him praying with the football team prompted the American Civil Liberties Union to sue the district.

That suit was settled out of court in 1999, and Daubenmire was given another one-year coaching contract with the promise that he’d stop praying with his players. But in early 2000, after leading his team to an undefeated season, he resigned.

Almost immediately, Daubenmire started Pass the Salt Ministries, and later another group, Minutemen United, drawing both followers and critics with his conservative Christian views.

Read more: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/02/12/Daubenmire-doesnxt-get-coaching-job.html

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were they that desperate for a coach?

[1StrongBlackMan]

1. Dahbenmire is probably a heck of a coach ...

But, I wonder if he quit after having an epiphany ... Maybe (his) God doesn't need him prayers since the season he DOESN'T pray with the team (the point of contention), the team goes undefeated.

[packman]

2. Always wondered about this prayer stuff

when two opposing forces meet be it football teams or nations. Does one cancel out the other? I can visualize Daubenmire praying to his God with his group while in the opposing team room Coach Dumbraski is praying to his God, maybe offering up a burnt sacrifice. And what would be the effect on the players if they lose? God hated them that day, that they weren't "right" enough? So many things to consider.

As Lincoln once said when asked about God being on the Union side:

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right

[FiveGoodMen]

7. 3rd Rock...

Coach: Dear lord, if it be within your great wisdom and mercy, please grant us the strength and courage to beat the hell out of the central high muskrats and--

Tommy: Excuse me, coach.

Coach: We're in the middle of a prayer.

Tommy: Do you think we should be bothering god over a basketball game?

Coach: This is important.

Tommy: The other team's praying, too... So our god is stronger than their god?

Coach: There's only one god, Solomon.

Tommy: Am I the only one seeing a conflict of interest here?

[FSogol]

8. And the Simpsons

Flanders before his team takes the field, "Dear Lord...."

Homer, "Ha-ha in your face Flanders, we already prayed!"

Flanders, "We were going to pray that no one got hurt and that everyone did their best."

Homer, "D-oh!"

[Blue_Tires]

3. Why wouldn't a private, Christian school just hire him?

[okaawhatever]

4. He started Minutemen United??? I don't know of a single group in the US calling theselves

Minutemen that aren't trouble. Maybe there's a historical society somewhere that recognizes the real Minutemen, but I don't think this guy is a part of that.

After reading the article I realized there's more on the Minutemen United:

In 2007, Minutemen United drew headlines for interrupting services at churches in Granville and Columbus that welcomed gay members.

He often speaks of manhood and the “sissification” of today’s boys.

In a video posted last summer, he said the women’s movement came along “because the men withdrew and ran back in the closet and hid behind their wives’ skirts.”

[radicalliberal]

5. "He often speaks of manhood and the 'sissification' of today’s boys."

Yeah, he probably says "Boys who have no interest in sports are sissies." I've heard it all before for decades. Sure, Andrei Sakharov and Raoul Wallenberg (not to mention others) were sissies.

I'd like to see him call Michael Sam a sissy to his face, as if he would even dare. Of course, Sam is probably too much of a gentleman to punch an idiot in the nose.

[okaawhatever]

6. you're right the guy is just a bully. He's one of the guys who tries to make everyone else feel

inferior to hide his own insecurities and self-loathing. Please, in the game of life, this football dude wouldn't qualify to be waterboy for Wallenberg and Sakharov.