Iowa State Soccer - USA Today article

[GoodyISU1]

'You put me through hell.' Allegations of emotional abuse at Iowa State under three soccer coaches

Former Iowa State Cyclones are among a rising number of ex-women's soccer players who say their coaches were emotionally abusive

www.usatoday.com

Not a great look for Iowa State in this article. 3 soccer coaches in a row accused of abuse

 

[loyalsons4evertrue]

Sounds like he was an ******* and he sucked at coaching

 

[Cyrocks]

'You put me through hell.' Allegations of emotional abuse at Iowa State under three soccer coaches

Former Iowa State Cyclones are among a rising number of ex-women's soccer players who say their coaches were emotionally abusive

www.usatoday.com

Not a great look for Iowa State in this article. 3 soccer coaches in a row accused of abuse

Yikes!

Maybe doing a little better job vetting these candidates would solve a lot of problems

 

[SCNCY]

Didn't this come out several months ago?

 

[isufbcurt]

Didn't this come out several months ago?

Yeah I thought this was old news

 

[I@ST1]

Yeah.. I thought that Tommy Birch had a write up on this. Interesting that it’s gaining more attention.. I think coach got an extension as well.

 

[GoodyISU1]

This just came out today. It seems like this is a deep dive on a former coach that went to SFA, but also discusses the coach before him, & the current coach. I think Birch's article was about the current coach, who JP extended right after the article came out.

 

[MJ271]

Didn't this come out several months ago?

Yeah I thought this was old news

Yeah.. I thought that Tommy Birch had a write up on this. Interesting that it’s gaining more attention.. I think coach got an extension as well.

The article in the OP is about Tony Minatta, the previous coach before Fannon, who is now at Stephen F. Austin. The end of the article does mention Fannon's allegations, plus allegations against the coach before Minatta.

 

[dt82]

article comes out about mistreatment of athletes - JP gets AD of the year award??
#POLLARDTOWN #POLLARD&LIGHT DISTRICT

 

[CloneinWDSM]

Need another 3-5 Tommy Birch articles before I make my mind up.

 

[CoachHines3]

It didn't get enough traction the first go so they're running it again i see

 

[Drew0311]

Serioulsy why can't coaches just coach. Why do they have to be all abusive and stuff. My daughter had so many good soccer coaches that advanced the playing careers of several top players in the state. Some play for Iowa State and others play for Iowa and many other colleges. None of them abused the girls. They all coached the game. They kept players wanting to be in the sport and excel at the sport. This type of stuff is so 1980's where the coach is some crazy Bobby Knight type idiot trying to ruin kids. Fire them all.

 

[WooBadger18]

It didn't get enough traction the first go so they're running it again i see

Different coach

 

[CoachHines3]

Different coach

I gotcha

i dont care enough to even click on the article so thanks for pointing that out!

 

[CapnCy]

Serioulsy why can't coaches just coach. Why do they have to be all abusive and stuff. My daughter had so many good soccer coaches that advanced the playing careers of several top players in the state. Some play for Iowa State and others play for Iowa and many other colleges. None of them abused the girls. They all coached the game. They kept players wanting to be in the sport and excel at the sport. This type of stuff is so 1980's where the coach is some crazy Bobby Knight type idiot trying to ruin kids. Fire them all.

I too hope this kind of crap keeps going by the wayside. But i think there are still "glory day" people that will be like "we didn't get water when we played HS football!" or "it made me who I am." Sometimes it can happen with parenting too....you hear folks of older generations talk about the fear of their father/grandpa...if you look into it a lot of that COULD be considered abuse (again, not all...and certainly not saying all parents of this generation have it pegged either)

There are many ways to motivate, hold folks accountable, and lead....you have to know who you are working with and adapt....that's a general statement, but I think gone are the days of just "because i said so."

 

[Kanuto]

Crickets from ISU Administration! It was a bold (in your face) move to give MF a contract extension right after the Rag article came out. And now this?

I feel bad for the players that came forward and were ignored. Calli needs to go! She is responsible for hiring three abusive coaches and for ignoring player concerns.

 

[psycln11]

Keep in mind that the USA Today and the RAG are both Gannett publications. Even at the bottom of the recent article the OP posted, Tommy Birch was listed as a contributor.