Wyoming Football Coach Resigns After ‘Hurt Feelings Report’

Why oh why would they let this guy keep his job as a guidance counselor? Can’t you just see him giving comfort to an upset student? Or giving good career advice that doesn’t involve sports? Not.
If a person who deals with kids for as many years as he has, doesn’t understand the harm they are doing by acting like he did, no amount of training or retraining is going to make a difference. A jerk is a jerk.
Imagine the hurt he has already inflicted in his 20 something years, the kids he discouraged and/or put down with his crappy attitude.
Think of the kids, fire him and hire someone who actually cares about kids and isn’t a clueless human being.

The coach is a girly-man for resigning. A REAL MAN would pay off the investigators and make the DA disappear.

I read in this article that the parents of the students were outraged but what about the students? How did they take this “Form”. I am a mother myself and I am not entirely sure what the huge deal about this is. If we can’t raise our kids to be a little thicker-skinned than this, then they are never going to survive in the real world. Come on people! Yeah, maybe he shouldn’t have done this but I don’t understand why everyone is SO SENSITIVE!!! Evidently he had a reason to distribute this to the players in the first place. If the parents are so sensitive then maybe they shouldn’t be letting their kids play football. It’s not exactly a sport for the tender-hearted………Just my thoughts though……..

Ironic how someone got their feelings hurt by this and complained. When will people realize that we need to stop being politically correct and sheltering our children from everything that *might* hurt their feelings? I think having a rational conversation about what sarcasm is and teaching our children that everyone has an opinion/feeling and they may not like it, but not everyone is going to conform to the values their parents have instilled in them would be a much better approach than dragging his man through the mud.

I’m no excusing bullying, but the number of whiny kids and parents is out of control. More kids and parents need to be taught that not everything that is done/said that you don’t agree with is a frickin’ hate crime! Seriously!

As far as causing pain and discomfort… REALLY!!?? How would you rate that pain on a scale of 1-10, 10 being the most excruciating pain ever? A 9? ’cause you actually had to talk to your kids about not being such pansies and tattling on everyone who hurt you ‘feelings.’

I do not condone bullying, I do not condone illegal activity, but I also don’t condone our society turning into the ‘occupy’ people who think everything is everyone else fault and that those people should be punished.

The same wimps who where offended by this will lose jobs later in life when they are “bullied” at work.

Reminds me of the Geico commercial with the ex-marine as the psychiatrist

I’m relieved to see a number of good comments on this — namely, that it’s a bunch of nonsense. The guy was afreakin’ coach. Coaches are supposed to act like that. Jeez, what is this world coming to? Honestly, the girly-men have taken over. It sucks.

This is a school that has a bully problem, and will “be surprised” by a suicide or a violent attack by a student. Many of the schools that look seriously at bullying problems find that there is often a direct relationship of the football coaches attempt to “make men” of his players. This was a purposely done instrument to divide students and create a superior feeling of some. The reaction that this man would have to a child reporting abuse would be further damage to this child’s ego.

It is a JOKE, people! That form has made the rounds through the military and other organizations for many years. Sometimes I think we have not earned the blessings of any Diety …

Observer, we do understand that it was intended as a joke. But the implications that females and gay people are “less than”, and that emotions are not real or important, are still highly offensive and inappropriate. The fact that a homophibic, misogynistic joke has been seen on military bases does not make it okay. And, this is a male role model in a position of authority, using his professional role to demean others and teach yet another generation of young men to deny their feelings. Not appropriate.

I love this guy! HE SHOULD totally KEEP HIS COACHING JOB! Do you think college or pro sports give a crap if you hurt your widdle toe?

Lynch needs to be gone. The actions were bad enough to resign from football and weightlifting but not bad enough to resign from his HS counseling position??? You are kidding me! Besides……………..this is nothing new from this guy. He’s been pulling this crap with kids in Buffalo for years. I lived there………..my kids lived there. I’ve seen and heard it first hand. He’s sorry he got caught…………. not for what he did and I will promise you this incident has not changed is mind how he treats and bullies groups of people. Pat Lynch thought he was above the law in Buffalo and for that matter the Supt and the School Board have proven that by allowing him to stay in such an important position. Come on man?? What is the admin and school board thinking? You guys are giving yourselves a black eye by not doing anything about this. Look yourself in the mirror. It’s been a known fact that he always had his favorites and if you did not fit his mold you were nothing and treated badly. The Supt has known this for years. Ask Kessler…………..if he says no he’s not telling the truth. This is a no brainer people.

c’mon people. Rather than complain that little Johnny had his feelings hurt, how about thanking the coach and guidance counselor for helping prepare these boys to be men?!?!?!? I mean, people are going to say not nice things to them at some point in their lives….they need to be prepared for it. They can’t run to mommy & daddy for the rest of their lives. This country is way too politically correct. I’m surprised Obama didn’t have a press conference calling this coach “stupid” and demanding his firing.

Okay, so i attend Buffalo High School. yes i know what he did was wrong, but it doesn’t change him as a person. I love Mr. Lynch without him i would not be at where i am today. He has helped me get to my senior year and be able to graduate with my class. I just want all this to stop. Like yea it was a bad choice but who cares. Everyone does bad things and everyone learns from them. So just drop this subject! Hey look Ashton cheated. Thats not on the news!

Did he fill out a Hurt Feelings Report before he resigned?

I think the point is that there is too much goddamned whining in our wussified society, evidenced by the Occutard Movement and the myriad whiny reader comments about this guy being a guidance counsellor.

I know Pat Lynch and he is the most inspirational and nicest guys you could ever know. He loves his job and has influenced so many kids lives, it was meant as a joke, and I am sure none of those kids he handed that to found it offensive, they probably found it funny. Parents these days are soo sensitive, as a parent myself, i probably would not have been too offended by this, actually when I read this I laughed and found it funny. It’s not like he was handing this out to young children who would not know to take this in a sarcastic tone. He handed this out to High school students who know what sarcasm is.
The people of Buffalo, WY know what a great coach and counselor Pat Lynch really is, and that’s why he got to keep his job. It was a momentary lapse of poor judgenment. In no way or form was this meant to “bully” anyone. It’s a shame our society has to be so focused on bullying. Bullying is nothing new, it is not some new phenomena. Parents today have no idea how to speak to their kids, and do not give their children the time and attention they deserve, and it is sad. Maybe the parents who were so offended by this should spend their time focusing on their kids, and not on looking for things to complain about.

Jeezus man. Like those kids haven’t heard worse? I just want to know who the hail came up with the list of what’s censored and what’s not. Who’s sensibilities are we catering to??

Whining about hurt feelings is more and more encouraged these days, and that’s a problem. It makes sense that kids need to learn to cope with hurt feelings in order to be prepared for life.

Thing is, you can criticize people for whining without being an anti-gay bigot or a misogynist. What’s wrong with the handout is the bigotry. It says you shouldn’t whine because its a gay thing, and everybody knows how we all hate the gays.

The coach’s players may well now go out and bully the gay kids at the school and maybe drive them to suicide. I think the suicides are a bigger problem than the whining, but that’s just me.

Sounds like the military will be heading in the direction of “girly-men”. “Ouch, I got hurt shooting my gun”.

I once had a ballet teacher who made me repeat a combination over and over in front of the class until it was correct. I was the youngest in the class, and it broke my little 10yr old heart. I cried all the way home. Of course the next week, I got the combination right. It may have hurt my feelings at the time, but it made me a better dancer. I learned to take correction without getting my feelings hurt. As a ten year old little girl I learned to get tough and get better. It is a shame you can’t do the same thing with high school football players.

It’s football not a pageant or a dance contest. America is losing its backbone. If you cant take it from your teammates you sure cant take it from your opponents. football is a rough sport and demands one be tough skinned. The whole point of the language used in sports is for an individual to rise above and achieve a next level of dominance. Football and sports in general is not office work or school work. your body and life are on the line. The words are to be taken as a form of motivation to show that you are not what you were called. if you cant catch a ball you’re butterfingers, if you cant take a hit you’re a wuss… point blank. If you cant take it go play chess or something. America get over it and get some pride. stop coddling these kids. stop giving them the roller book bags let them carry the stuff on their backs so they can develop back and leg muscles and get some strength…

I am a female and have this report and have been handing out in my male dominated work environment since 2006. And proud of it. Forms like this are what makes America, America. Granted, maybe a guidance counselor shouldn’t have handed out to students, but as far as locker room talk goes…..this is very appropriate. They are FOOTBALL players not Girl Scouts (no offense to the well respected GS of America). Next thing you know, they are going to have to “hug out” a big hit or tackle on the field.