Football is not for everybody and that is perfectly okay.
Kurt Hines, the head coach at Coronado High School in California, is going insanely viral this week after he posted a short video on Twitter talking about one of his players that quit the team.
Hines wasn’t upset or ranting, rather he was proud and declared his respect for the unnamed player for acknowledging the truth that he was not enjoying playing the game.
“I just had a young man come in and quit and I truly could not be happier,” Hines said. “This young man was struggling all season with making it to practice, with committing. Never looked happy. [He has] some stuff going on.”
Hines shook the player’s hand and asked the player to sit down for a minute.
“He started to explain how his family has always been a football family,” Hines said. “They’ve always loved it, my father, my brother. I stopped him and asked him, ‘Do you love it?’”
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The player said “no.”
“I’m so proud of you,” Hines told him.
“I saw his whole countenance change. He was smiling from ear to ear,” Hines said. “I said you’re doing the right thing. Football is not for everyone. I couldn’t be happier. Coaches, support your players if they want to be great. And If they want to be great in something other than football, support them just the same.”
