John O'Connor Resigns from Holy Family University

John O'Connor can always become a physical education teacher.

The basketball coach from Holy Family University has been found guilty of assaulting one of his players, Matt Kravchuk, during a practice game back in January 2011. O'Connor was reported as having knocked Kravchuk to the ground as the coach proceeded to yell an obscenity laced tirade at him. The assault resulted in Kravchuck having an injured wrist, which was bleeding when he got up and walked away from O'Connor. As soon as a video of the incident appeared on the Internet then eventually on the national nightly news, O'Connor has been under fire from Holy Family University for his unwarranted and unprovoked attack on Kravchuk.

With sports looking more and more like the Cambodian war fields, encouraging violence not only among coaches and families sitting on the sidelines, it also makes the players get very ugly on the field. Of course, since most Americans think sports is the greatest thing in the word since sliced bread (it isn't) and the ideal thing to aspire to (illegal drug use is far worse in sports than it is in the music industry), it makes the anti-sports folks like myself say:

"But this happened at a Roman Catholic College where academics are supposed to be stressed not sports."

Right.

Having graduated from Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, Connecticut, a woman's college, sure, the Blue Jays were a good team but considered sports an extra-curricular activity and not something one at the college makes a career of. Not when you are required to maintain a writing portfolio and attend daily lectures. I was never involved with sports in school though I did love phys ed which was far superior to sports in every aspect. Mainly because in phys ed, one learns how to lose weight if needed, whereas sports is just the opposite; if you are overweight, forget about making any team.

Having lost his job, O'Connor only hopes the ugly incident which tarnished his reputation forever does not cost him his career. He can always become a phys ed teacher and not act like he has just been shipped off to Hanoi, Vietnam. After all, sports are just not important anymore, and teamwork as defined by sports will not help anyone get a job at a Fortune 500 company, either. Kravchuck can always make up for his bruised body and ego by excelling in Calculus, but O'Connor may have to get a factory job assembling basketballs if he cannot get a job as a phys ed teacher.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110226/ap_on_sp_co_ne/bkc_holy_family_aftermath_3

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/21/matt-kravchuk-john-oconnor_n_826128.html