'We're getting f***ed in the a**': Kentucky high school basketball coach resigns after locker-room speech is posted online



A Kentucky high school basketball coach has voluntarily resigned after footage was posted to Facebook showing him cursing more than two dozen times while speaking to young athletes.

Lynn Camp High School's boys' basketball coach Tyler Wagner was shown in two videos using explicit language with his team in the locker room, criticizing them for playing fearfully and lacking "common sense" on the court.

"There's not s*** out there. We're getting f***ed in the ass by a bunch of f***ing kids who want it more than we do," Wagner said in the first video. "That's why they're f***ing top-10 in the region."

"That's why we're bottom of the f***ing scale," he continued. "[Because] we think we just deserve it ... that's why you're gettin' your ass kicked every goddamned day," the coach added.

In the second video, Wagner specified that his players were being too apprehensive in their defensive play and seemed afraid to go hard at the other team's basket.

"Don't just f***ing stop! Like, what are we doing?! We have no common sense. We're playing back so far that we can't f***ing do nothing!" he complained.

"What is it, 12 points, 14 points in a f***ing half? In a f***ing half?! 14 f***ing points! Quit being scared when you go in there and just launching it up."

'I allowed the competitive environment to get the best of me.'

Wagner apologized in a statement, noting that the video was actually from 2023, as the latest season hasn't started yet.

"The language that I used in this video is not acceptable in any manner. I allowed the competitive environment to get the best of me and for that I am truly sorry," Wagner wrote, per the Lexington Herald-Leader. "I have fully accepted that what I did was not right, and I pledge to be better."

A Knox County, Kentucky, spokesperson said county officials had been "informed of a situation showing a coach inappropriately discussing issues with players."

"We are unable to discuss specific personnel matters. The coach has since voluntarily resigned from the position," the spokesperson confirmed.

Comments on the Facebook videos were seemingly entirely split between the two sexes, with women generally saying the coach went too far while men chalked it up to tough love.

"Coaches lead by example and are supposed to teach them how to be respectable young men," one woman wrote.

"This is ridiculous. ... You will not make these boys tough or play better cussing them like this," another said.

"This coach needs to be fired!" a different woman replied.

Men's comments were as follows:

"[It's so] when/if they go to college they don't get their feelings hurt because college coaches are 10000 times worse than this," a user named Brandon said.

"So when they become adults and go off to college they know how to handle it," another man wrote as a reason for the coach's language.

"This is light compared to my coaches coming up," another Facebook user said.

More women supported the coach than men who condemned him, with at least one woman stating that she wasn't familiar with the locker-room dynamic of men's sports until it was explained to her.

"At first I was upset with the whole thing until my husband explained to me. He could dial down the cussing but he's doing what a coach does."

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Whitlock: Firing of Brian Flores illustrates the outdatedness of evaluating NFL coaching decisions based on race



As is tradition, the NFL fired a bunch of coaches Monday morning, a day after its regular season concluded and ownership looked to blame someone for failing to meet expectations.

The Broncos kicked things off Sunday morning, dismissing Vic Fangio a day after Denver wrapped up its season with a loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Twenty-four hours later, the Bears dumped Matt Nagy, the Vikings pink-slipped Mike Zimmer, and most surprisingly, the Dolphins discarded third-year coach Brian Flores.

The Flores firing will get the most attention. Miami finished with a winning record, 9-8, and ended its campaign with a victory over the Patriots. Plus, Flores is black. And we know how corporate media loves nothing more than to accuse NFL ownership of racism.

NFL owners are Trump supporters. What could be more racist than voting for Donald Trump over black icons Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden? NFL owners provided January 6 insurrectionists with the flagpoles and moose heads they used to try to overthrow our government and assassinate Nancy Pelosi.

Let me stop the sarcasm and make my serious point.

In the world of sports, there’s nothing more complicated and treacherous than NFL head-coaching decisions.

That’s why there’s nothing more bothersome than the simple-minded discussion of those decisions along black-white racial lines.

NFL owners want to win because winning further inflates their egos, celebrity, and feelings of masculinity. Skin color is no longer a driving force when it comes to serving an owner’s ego on a football field. He’s not picking a wife, a girlfriend, or a mistress.

He’s picking someone skilled at two things: 1) motivating young men with lots of discretionary money and free time; 2) managing a team of older men who assist the head coach in motivating young men.

The job requires tremendous savvy. Most of the people talking about the job on corporate media platforms, Twitter, and Facebook lack the kind of savvy necessary to be a successful football coach at any level.

That’s why the discussion of NFL head coaches is so stupid and fixates on race. There was a time when race played a major role in who could lead an NFL franchise. That time has passed. The same way there used to be a time when the skin color of the quarterback mattered, the skin color of the heavyweight boxing champion mattered, the skin color of the president and vice president mattered.

Things have changed here in America. Unfortunately, there are people who have built careers and social media brands pretending nothing has changed and we’re still locked in the 1920 and ’30s.

The truth is that the firing of Brian Flores proves how much things have changed.

Flores is out of a job today because the black general manager of the Miami Dolphins, Chris Grier, out-politicked Flores.

Miami-based ESPN NFL reporter Jeff Darlington tweeted the most pertinent information on the Flores firing.

“The decision to fire Flores can be summed up with one word: Relationships. His relationship with Grier and (quarterback) Tua (Tagovailoa) had deteriorated to a pretty bad place. Along with constant staff changes, owner Steve Ross no longer saw Flores as a healthy fit in Miami.”

Let me translate that for you. Grier has a better relationship with the Dolphins’ owner than Flores. A year ago, Grier stayed put at number five in the draft and selected Tagovailoa one spot ahead of Chargers star quarterback Justin Herbert. It was a risky pick. Tua is undersized and a bit injury-prone.

Grier tried to acquire the number-one overall pick from Cincinnati, presumably to select quarterback Joe Burrow. The Dolphins had three first-round picks in 2020. Whatever the trade package, it wasn’t enough to persuade the Bengals to relinquish Burrow.

Grier struck out on Burrow and Herbert. Tua is a disappointment.

Grier, like most people, is loyal to his decision. Grier and Tua are a package that Flores seemingly can’t enthusiastically support. Grier used his superior relationship with Stephen Ross to fire Flores, who has back-to-back winning seasons. Flores is the first Dolphins coach to record back-to-back winning seasons in nearly two decades.

What happened between Flores and Grier, two black men, is commonplace in the NFL. Relationships rule decision-making. At that altitude, relationships are often ruled by ego and personality, not race.

It’s a game of politics. Treacherous politics.

The prevailing sentiment is that Flores will get a second chance to lead an NFL team, perhaps as early as this off-season. NFL decision-makers can easily see what happened to Flores. The media will try to blind sports fans with race.