# Coach has disabled player deliberately hurt **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 15, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coach-has-disabled-player-deliberately-hurt/312677 "2005-07-15T17:39:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Papermache\_Prince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coach-has-disabled-player-deliberately-hurt/312677/121 "2005-07-29T17:46:21Z")
Check out that photo (above link) - did his attorney tell the coach to pick out a suit and shirt two sizes too large so he would look small and vulnerable? ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coach-has-disabled-player-deliberately-hurt/312677/122 "2005-07-29T17:54:16Z")
If I was the father of that child, that coach would have two broken legs. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2005, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coach-has-disabled-player-deliberately-hurt/312677/123 "2005-07-29T17:57:29Z")
> [@Papermache Prince](#): > > Check out that photo (above link) - did his attorney tell the coach to pick out a suit and shirt two sizes too large so he would look small and vulnerable? That shot reminds me of a Koopa from the _Super Mario Bros._ movie. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coach-has-disabled-player-deliberately-hurt/312677/124 "2005-07-30T07:09:40Z")
He looks to be about fifteen years old. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2005, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coach-has-disabled-player-deliberately-hurt/312677/125 "2005-07-30T08:02:42Z")
IF the coach is guilty, I’m all for the Pillory, but something about the linked stories I’ve read so far doesn’t quite convince me. It’s not that complex of a story for an 8yo who’s ashamed or scared of doing something mean to make up. Meanwhile, what WAS coldie’s major malfunction? “Goodbye Children”?!?!? I’d also love to know his point of origin. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coach-has-disabled-player-deliberately-hurt/312677/126 "2006-10-12T20:56:00Z")
Coach Mark Downs was sentenced today to [one to six years](http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/news/story?id=2623002) in prison for corruption of minors and criminal solicitation of simple assualt. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coach-has-disabled-player-deliberately-hurt/312677/127 "2006-10-12T21:03:10Z")
Ha-ha! Rot, you miserable bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coach-has-disabled-player-deliberately-hurt/312677/128 "2006-10-12T21:33:05Z")
[QUOTE=Enginerd] Coach Mark Downs was sentenced today to [one to six years](http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/news/story?id=2623002) in prison for corruption of minors and criminal solicitation of simple assualt. [/QUOTE] Hot diggity damn. Best news I’ve had all day. Really hoping “Coach” Downs is “warmly welcomed” into his new cell. Karana frowns upon those that bean the handicapped. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coach-has-disabled-player-deliberately-hurt/312677/129 "2006-10-12T23:45:43Z")
Whoa…reading this thread I just realized that **The Flying Dutchman** used to be **grienspace**. This explains much… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coach-has-disabled-player-deliberately-hurt/312677/130 "2006-10-13T00:01:29Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Whoa…reading this thread I just realized that **The Flying Dutchman** used to be **grienspace**. This explains much… [/QUOTE] And **davenportavenger** used to be **continuity eror**. I don’t know if that explains anything, but it was kinda interesting. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coach-has-disabled-player-deliberately-hurt/312677/131 "2006-10-13T00:11:31Z")
Wow. After being sentenced, a reporter asked him if he thought the judge’s sentence was too harsh. He answered, “Yes.” I see he’s learned all about humility. What a disgrace to coaches everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coach-has-disabled-player-deliberately-hurt/312677/132 "2006-10-13T00:46:46Z")
Oh, c’mon! It’s almost like he was hit by an attempted brushback by an opposing pitcher! Other than it was his own coach and his own teammate and it was T ball ao there was no pitcher. See, practically identical! Just routine baseball strategy, really. Walk it off, kid. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coach-has-disabled-player-deliberately-hurt/312677/133 "2006-10-13T03:24:58Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Whoa…reading this thread I just realized that **The Flying Dutchman** used to be **grienspace**. This explains much… [/QUOTE] Yeah . . . I certainly have noticed that each of them is a goodbye child, though I didn’t realize that they were actually the same dude. Meanwhile, I gotta say it was sad how easily people were trolled by that Coldie fella. I actually am really amused by that phrase . . . “goodbye children” . . . ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coach-has-disabled-player-deliberately-hurt/312677/134 "2006-10-13T06:47:00Z")
[QUOTE=Oakminster] Really hoping “Coach” Downs is “warmly welcomed” into his new cell. [/QUOTE] Please explain your meaning. And perhaps you might explain why you wish someone to be the victim of a crime. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coach-has-disabled-player-deliberately-hurt/312677/135 "2006-10-13T14:38:07Z")
A news article I read about this yesterday quoted Downs as saying, “I didn’t do nothing.” And his lawyers have said he looks forward to the chance to appeal his conviction. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coach-has-disabled-player-deliberately-hurt/312677.md?page=6)