You gotta want it so bad you can taste it. Or bite it.
A wrestling coach from back in the region of my upbringing has apparently got himself into hot water over a little misunderstanding. You see, he was wrestling one of the high schoolers, and, as you know these things sometimes go, bit him in the leg.
“The coach was wrestling with him and bit him in the leg, the upper thigh,” McGough said.
The bite caused bruising but did not draw blood, McGough said. The student, who McGough did not identify, did not want to prosecute and opted to drop the matter if Marshall agreed to resign, police said.
Marshall’s attorney, John D. Messina, said the incident was “completely innocent” and not malicious.
“The incident occurred while he was joking around with one of the wrestlers,” Messina said. “Certainly it was poor judgment and it cost him his job.”
It was a completely innocent bite, a moment when he sunk his teeth into the youth’s upper thigh without any malice whatsoever. That’s the problem with kids today, you can’t get tough with them without all these bleeding hearts getting into a tiff about it.
Spare the bites to the upper thigh, spoil the child, I always say. Oh, and I should mention that when Coach Marshall isn’t training our young grappling men, he continues to serve the youth population as a probation officer for the county’s Department of Juvenile Probation. I’m sure that goes very well for everyone involved.
While this story does have everything (Wrestling! Bites to the upper thigh!), my favorite part of the whole story is this:
“Everything I say gets misconstrued,” Marshall told The Associated Press. “I’ve been drug [dragged] through the mud.”
It looks like biting teenagers is about the most mouth skill Marshall possesses.
