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Post by airman on Aug 1, 2007 13:27:59 GMT -6
so has you school cracked down on coaches chewing tabacco? just got the memo today, tabacco free school and anyone violating the law can be fined.
next thing I will here is "papers please" as I try to cross from east to west campus.
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Post by wildcat on Aug 1, 2007 13:32:57 GMT -6
We still have some coaches who chew, but it is really becoming socially as well as professionally unacceptable.
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Post by airraider on Aug 1, 2007 14:26:34 GMT -6
I had a coach in high school who would smoke on the field during our water breaks..
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Post by airman on Aug 1, 2007 14:26:57 GMT -6
Inner city schools don't even know what it is. speaking of inner city. in college 20 years ago, we had this kid come from milwaukee wi to eau claire wi to play football and go to college. we were traveling to a game and he asked the coach why are there so many black and white dogs in those fields over there. needless to say he had never seen a holstien dairy cow or any other cow in his life. I never laughed so hard in my life. |
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Post by brophy on Aug 1, 2007 14:50:35 GMT -6
tobacco products have been banned at my former (North) school since 2000  |
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Post by wildcat on Aug 1, 2007 14:58:46 GMT -6
tobacco products have been banned at my former (North) school since 2000 Using tobacco products at any public school in Illinois is illegal and has been for a long time. With that being said, there are still people who use even though there aren't supposed to. When I was a kid, we had coaches who chewed on the field or smoked in the coach's office. Heck, my freshman year in high school (1988) students could get a "smoking lounge pass". It was a permission slip signed by your parents that allowed you to go outside between classes or at lunchtime and have a smoke. Guys who had a smoker's pass were at the top of the food chain in the burnout/metalhead clique. ;D |
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Post by airman on Aug 1, 2007 15:01:59 GMT -6
tobacco products have been banned at my former (North) school since 2000 Using tobacco products at any public school in Illinois is illegal and has been for a long time. With that being said, there are still people who use even though there aren't supposed to. When I was a kid, we had coaches who chewed on the field or smoked in the coach's office. Heck, my freshman year in high school (1988) students could get a "smoking lounge pass". It was a permission slip signed by your parents that allowed you to go outside between classes or at lunchtime and have a smoke. Guys who had a smoker's pass were at the top of the food chain in the burnout/metalhead clique. ;D could they have been smoking the home grown type of tabacco? little illinois ditch weed? |
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Post by brophy on Aug 1, 2007 15:05:54 GMT -6
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Post by wildcat on Aug 1, 2007 15:17:01 GMT -6
could they have been smoking the home grown type of tabacco? little illinois ditch weed? I had a Social Studies teacher...hard-nosed, tough-a$$ old Marine who did 2 tours in 'Nam who used to call it the "wacky tabbacky". At least once a week, he would go off on a rant about what slackers my generation was...in addition to accusing us of smoking the wacky tabbacky, he would talk endlessly about us wasting time listening to Grand Funk Railroad and Foghat records. ;D |
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Post by airman on Aug 1, 2007 15:21:58 GMT -6
could they have been smoking the home grown type of tabacco? little illinois ditch weed? I had a Social Studies teacher...hard-nosed, tough-a$$ old Marine who did 2 tours in 'Nam who used to call it the "wacky tabbacky". At least once a week, he would go off on a rant about what slackers my generation was...in addition to accusing us of smoking the wacky tabbacky, he would talk endlessly about us wasting time listening to Grand Funk Railroad and Foghat records. ;D guess the rolling stones, ac/dc, ozzy and twisted sister were okay to listen to. I can just see this guy in the twisted sister video being the teacher going , is that a twisted sister pin on your jacket. |
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Post by lionhart on Aug 1, 2007 15:46:35 GMT -6
inner city kids have no idea what the stuff is. one of our coaches dips (he picked it up in college in pennsylvania) and the kids all think he has mud in his mouth or something. its pretty funny because this guy actually gets away with dipping in class because the kids dont even know enough to say anything. they just think hes the crazy white guy that spits into the garbage can all class!!
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Post by coachf on Aug 1, 2007 16:12:58 GMT -6
When I was in HS, we had a ton of kids that would dip in class. We were allowed to bring soda in class, so it was pretty easy to get away with. I would say I was 1 of about 15 on our Varsity that didn't chew and 1 of about 3 on our Varsity that didn't drink.
Illinois' policy has already been described, but we have our violators. Nobody really seems to care. The only thing that ticks me off is when they discard their used chew on the field or practice field. That is disgusting. Go find a trash can.
I am not a big fan of the stuff, I got sick of talking to people in HS who had that crap all over their teeth all the time. Plus, it is never good to have a friend who does it just in case you mistake that bottle he has for an actual drink.
Funny story, though. Used to work at the school in the summer. Stories in the school were that our old janitor used to have a couple of containers that read "New" and "Used." OF course, these referred to his tobacco. The legend was that the Seniors would switch the labels on the containers, so the old man would "reuse" the chew. I spent the whole summer trying to track down the stash so I could verify that this was a possibility. He did have a "new" container, but I never saw the infamous "used."
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Post by larrymoe on Aug 1, 2007 21:34:21 GMT -6
When I was in HS, we had a ton of kids that would dip in class. We were allowed to bring soda in class, so it was pretty easy to get away with. I would say I was 1 of about 15 on our Varsity that didn't chew and 1 of about 3 on our Varsity that didn't drink. Illinois' policy has already been described, but we have our violators. Nobody really seems to care. The only thing that ticks me off is when they discard their used chew on the field or practice field. That is disgusting. Go find a trash can. I am not a big fan of the stuff, I got sick of talking to people in HS who had that crap all over their teeth all the time. Plus, it is never good to have a friend who does it just in case you mistake that bottle he has for an actual drink. Funny story, though. Used to work at the school in the summer. Stories in the school were that our old janitor used to have a couple of containers that read "New" and "Used." OF course, these referred to his tobacco. The legend was that the Seniors would switch the labels on the containers, so the old man would "reuse" the chew. I spent the whole summer trying to track down the stash so I could verify that this was a possibility. He did have a "new" container, but I never saw the infamous "used." Don't lie. You're a dipper. I've seen you do it!  Used to know a guy who would chew Redman and put the stuff back in the pouch to chew again after he was done. Pretty gross, but nowhere near as gross as when he offered it to another guy I worked with and the guy took it and chewed it and then commented on how "moist" it was. He had no idea why I was about ready to puke. |
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Post by coachmoore42 on Aug 2, 2007 0:50:32 GMT -6
Our kids see enough examples of people doing things that aren't good for them. I'm not going to be one more bad example. I wish all authority figures would follow suit. Just my opinion. It's been banned from our school system since before I was a student anyway.
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Post by coachjd on Aug 2, 2007 6:25:17 GMT -6
When I was doing the college coaching gig I used to have the nasty habit. In fact I was kicked out of a college softball game I was coaching for chewing. We were an NAIA school and we played a NCAA Div I school on our spring trip and the umpire asked me if I was chewing and I said yes, and the next thing I knew, I was booted for the first game of the double header. NCAA had strict rules about chewing.
Once I moved to high school coaching, I knew I had to kick the habit. Skoal bandits helped with this and within 6 months I kicked the habit and my body weight jumped about 40 pounds.
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Post by justwingit on Aug 2, 2007 8:28:50 GMT -6
Our campus is going to be tobacco free this year I don't use tobacco but there may be one or two coaches in our system that do - It will be interesting to see what our administrators try to do at game time -- do you try and tell the opposing coaches not to chew - (please don't tell the returning state champion!), do you throw out an official if they chew?
If you threw out all the chewers at our game there wouldn't be many men in the stands (and a few less women!). - should be interesting
BTW, I am from a rural area and in previous years I was the only one on staff who didn't chew. Very very common in our area.
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Post by coachpoe on Aug 2, 2007 13:10:17 GMT -6
Oh dipping in the class...the good old days  . I don't do it at school/practice (stick to sunflower seeds to try and kick it) but a couple on our staff do. In fact our head baseball coach/freshman football coach got kicked out of a baseball game this spring for dipping. He has done it in every game for the past 6 or 7 years but one game a new ump saw it and booted him. |
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Post by coachcb on Aug 2, 2007 13:37:53 GMT -6
I've got a nicotine patch on right now; I've gotta quit chewing before the season starts.
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. I don't do it at school/practice (stick to sunflower seeds to try and kick it) but a couple on our staff do. In fact our head baseball coach/freshman football coach got kicked out of a baseball game this spring for dipping. He has done it in every game for the past 6 or 7 years but one game a new ump saw it and booted him.