Still amazes me how much verbal and physical abuse parents will watch their teenage daughters endure at the hands of an adult bully (male or female). I have no problem with strength and conditioning drills. But when it crosses the line into "I'm in charge, God d%**&it, and I'll show you who's boss", that's not tough love.
I guess it all boils down to an individual player's self-esteem. The senior "captains" at DD's HS tried to pull that "I'm a senior captain, you're a freshman, you have to do what I tell you" crap...very happy to say it didn't work because DD knows who she is, what her value to the team was at the time, and wasn't about to let some spoiled senior brat haze her just because...
I guess it all boils down to an individual player's self-esteem. The senior "captains" at DD's HS tried to pull that "I'm a senior captain, you're a freshman, you have to do what I tell you" crap...very happy to say it didn't work because DD knows who she is, what her value to the team was at the time, and wasn't about to let some spoiled senior brat haze her just because...