Your coach is a moron. Don't take his stupid advice.
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2025
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Because you'll try to just "walk off" a serious muscle injury that needs rest and fuck your shit for life. Especially at that level with the amount of physical force those dudes produce.
Yeah but if someone worth tens of millions of dollars gets permanently injured, tens of millions of dollars have been lost, maybe more for the team. If a kid worth $0 gets permanently injured, there is another one on the bench, and the team has lost nothing.
/s
Is it /s though? I feel like that's the reason.
There is no one who is worth nothing, money doesn't decide the value of a person. Granted yes, the team wasn't playing for profit most likely, so to the team, there is no gain from them getting injured but a plastic trophy and memories.
Playing through small injuries leads to larger injuries. If your coach were paying you thousands or millions of dollars per game, they would not want you to wreck yourself and end up missing games.
Protecting their investment?
Well, has your coach ever trained any pro athletes, or do they always seem to be unable to make it there?
It's like when mommy and daddy buy their precious little Timmy a car and then he doesn't take care of it, doesn't keep it cleaned and maintained, and runs it into the ground. Timmy doesn't care, it cost him nothing, and mommy and daddy will get him another if that one breaks down.
Compared to:
Timmy worked his ass off to buy an expensive, high end pickup truck for the work he does. It took a lot of work and sacrifice to be able to afford it, and without it, he doesn't make money. So, he takes excellent care of it, keeps it clean and maintained, and he's careful about how and when he uses it.
Then poor Timmy finds out someone spray painted his beloved cybertruck, what a world.
I've yet to see a cybertruck within 1,000 meters of an active job site.
Because those millions of dollars are an investment in a long, profitable career. "Take the day off and rest" versus "keep pushing and do irrecoverable harm to your body," which do you think is preferred?
Well one your coach is a moron.
But also they're worth millions and millions of dollars. Why would you risk an asset worth millions and millions of dollars because a coach is a moron?
Because they’re grown adults weighing 75-150kg depending on the sport and position, with strength and conditioning to match, and you don’t want to shatter your knee just so you can make a single play in a single game, but end your career (remember that bit about how much they’re paid, and how much the team paid for them?)
Basically, pro athletes cost the team dearly, but you didn’t cost your coach a cent.
You get what you pay for.
Pay a little money, get a little quality. Pay a LOT of money, get high quality.
Well your coach didn't have to pay anything, so fuck you and your body! He's only coaching high school football.
Whereas NFL coaches have to pay their athletes millions of dollars, and expect high returns on long term winning.
Unless you're Kevin Stefanski. In which case you coach The Browns. And no one expects The Browns to win....
You don’t want a person on a contract with multimillion dollar injury payouts to get invited and have to also pay someone else to fill their role.
In high school you're younger, weaker and lighter. Also, the coach is trying to toughen you up. Not saying they're always wise about when to send you to the bench, but it's nothing like the pros.
Once you get into the pros, those guys are monsters, fighters with a lot more to lose. And of course they're literally financial investments.
i think you are posting about European football.
The players don’t get take off the field for something minor. They get taken off the field because of serious injury to multi million dollar assets or to waste game clock…
It depends on the sport. There are sports where people absolutely play through injuries. Hell, the NFL only recently implemented a concussion protocol.