If you fight back, you get labeled "Untouchable"
and you don't stay on their team long. Violence and macho posturing is a turn off. Protect us from that.
Another former college football player detailed his own experience with violent hazing: “it [the hazing] was like you get ‘jumped into’ a gang. At my former school, there was a big culture and tradition surrounding getting jumped by your teammates and things like that. And this was done on the last day of fall camp for the freshmen. And all the seniors would go into your dorm rooms and essentially jump you, beat you down to the ground. And that right there was my moment of, oh, this is violent, this is manipulative. I’m just here to play football and then now I’m getting beat down by 10 dudes in the dorm room. And that’s something that the coaches said they didn’t know about because it came out eventually my junior year that someone told. And they said they didn’t know about it. But my position coach was there for 25 years.”
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