We have a 20 year old son playing college baseball in Nebraska. Anne and I understood when Conor left home that there were going to be things outside our control concerning his time at college.
My wife and I believe we instilled a strong foundation of love, respect and honor in our son, yet we know we didn't raise a saint and Conor would face the same challenges as we did when we were his age.
With hope, we expected him to attend his classes, keep up with his studies and to behave with maturity, avoiding involvement with the 3 big ones; drugs, alcohol and unprotected sex.
In trusting our son to the college baseball team, I had expectations that they would teach, train, and test my son, instructing him in team, duty, loyalty and industriousness.
Sure, we expected discipline. Adherence to constructive criticism, direction, study, diet, work, appearance, demeanor and behavior requirements would be what we would expect from our son.
Never would we permit verbal and physical abuse by a coach who bullied, berated and belittled his team. And neither should a college administration who seeks to portray themselves as a molder of minds, a place of education and learning.
Rutgers violated the trust placed in them by parents to protect their children by allowing the abuser, Mike Rice, to remain in his post after video surfaced of his assaults on basketball players.
When Penn State legend, Joe Paterno was forced to step down after failing to act when he was presumed to know about Coach Sandusky's sexual abuse of students, it set a precedent on how college officials should act.University athletic director, Tim Pernetti, obviously wasn't paying attention and didn't learn the lesson. He should be fired forthwith.
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