Coach 'Bull Cyclone' Sullivan
The cruelest, most abusive Coaches, with their intimidating, bully-boy antics and malevolent, weed-out behaviors, began in the Southeast. Coach Bear Bryant claimed Robert 'Bull Cyclone' Sullivan, hugh head football Coach at Southeast Mississippi College was the toughest Coach ever. Ironically, Bull was the South offensive line Coach in the May, 196i (1960 season) High School All America Game in which this research journalist played and was offense MVP. However, this journalist did not witness his malevolence, but witnessed an intense, smart, very capable line Coach. The South line blocked magnificiently. See his picture above. [The Toughest Coach There Ever Was by Frank Deford, April 30, 1984,sports Illustrated]
These ‘tough Coaches’ got away with their psychological and physical commando totalitarian football and other Sports, Recreation and Exercise (SRE) behaviors, because poor, disparaged, Southern tenant-farm-boys had no other way out of plowing the cotton fields, other than football. Southern tenant-farm-boys, dispicably, 'were regarded as being of little worth", expendable.
College footbal and other organized coached SRE offered Southern tenant-farm-boys food, shelter, clothing and an education, if they wanted it, and guaranteed them no return to the cotton fields and plowline, if they submitted to total football or other SRE, acording to Coach Paul Bear Bryant, who was an Arkansas tenant-farm-boy, himself, who fled the plowline for University of Alabama football. Bear described his plowline circumstances in the Sports Illustrated publication. Ironically, this research journalist's father attended UA for about 2 years and participated in boxing, then the second most popular SEC sport, at the same time Bear played football 1932-1936.
Bear Bryant and other Southeast college football Coaches preferred the 'lessor football player', as some called them, because they would do anything and tolerate mistreatments rather than return to the plowline and weren't particularly fond of educational endeavors and studying. Total football was what it said. One Bear Bryant and Charlie Bradshaw disciple Coach said "we'll tell you when to study."
Southeast football was not intergrated until Sept. 30, 1967. Ole Miss visited Lexington to play the University of Kentucky, who had Black football Athletes on their squad. That was the beginning of SEC play for both teams that season, when SEC football was integrated. By that time, commando, totalitarian football had been firmly established in the SEC and integration had no impact on that brand of football. Everyone was treated the same, like 'turds' under UK Head Coach Charlie Bradshaw in 1962, after Head Coach Blanton Collier unfortunately was fired and this research journalist's football career was turned upside-down.
From the get-go in the late 1950's there were 2 monumental exceptions to the 'lessor player' philosophy in the SEC. Coach Blanton Collier head football Coach at the University of Kentucky and Coach Bobby Dodd at Gerogia Tech recruited student football Athletes. Both were Student Athlete Centered Coaches. This research journalist officially visted both programs and had an official vist scheduled with Duke an exception to 'lessor players' in the ACC in 1960 but signed with Coach Collier, who promised as the other 2, that pre-medical studies would be allowed during footbal play. additionally, the new College of Medicine University of Kentucky appeared very promising.
Abruptly, televisions' money-filled-lightening struck college football, basketball, other major college and Olympic SRE. At the same time, the philosophy of win-at-all-costs to Athletes had glorified totalitarian football and basketball and exhilerated the fandom. Athletes became heroes and heroines while others became expendable. Honors, rewards and trophies were abundant. In many high profile, money-driven programs, mostly the emotionally inflicted and physically battered Athletes adapted and survived for play. Many excess, exspendable Athletes began transferring, pulling-out and many winners and losers began manifessting PTSD.
In an advocacy effort to restore order in SRE, 1. after the first ever High School Coach was criminally charged for the wrongful death of high school football player, 2. the last straws in cheerleader tragic injuries were announced and 3. SRE Concussion Mismanagements were exposed, among everything mounting problem, the first ever Amateur Athlete Abuse and Cruelty Summit was convened in Boston, MA in 2011.
It wasn't untill then, Dr Jim Andrews, Cal Ripken. Child Protective Services, CDC, U.S. Olympics, Congressmen, GAO, WHO, ICD-10 and many other 'Sysems in Child Athlete Maltreatment Crisis' (defined by the Surgeon General of the U.S.), finally found the courage to feebly step-up for the examination and treatment of abnormal Coaching and Athletic Community behaviors in SRE. A few others had the hutzpah to directly name the elephant in the living room, Coaches and their the malevolent behavior.
Unknowing, 'Sysems in Child Athlete Maltreatment and Abuse Crisis' preferred believeing SRE were immune and above the law and burried their heads in the sand. Rather than face the truth and begin reformation education, many in crisis preferred to remain prisoners in a corrupt SRE nightmare.
CHILD ATHLETE SAVING HISTORY
Battered Child Syndrome, the first report describing Child Abuse in the U.S., was reported in 1962. It evolved into Child Protection Laws. [“The Battered-Child Syndrome”, C. Henry Kempe, M.D.; Frederic N. Silverman, M.D.; Brandt F. Steele, M.D.; William Droegemueller, M.D. ; Henry K. Silver, M.D., JAMA. 1962;181(1):17-24.]
The United States Federal Governmental enacted the first Child Protection Law known as Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) 1972. CAPTA has been amended several times and was last amended in CAPT Reauthorization Act, 2010, Public Law 111-320. CAPTA 2010 was announced and promulgated, funds and resources were allocated and public policies were established. Nineteen (19) years later, in 1981 Dr. Edwin R. Guise and Dr. Richard M. Ball, in disapproval, first described the terms respectively:
• “Socially Approved Athletic Child Abuse”
• “Battered-Child-Athlete-Syndrome”, [ 3.]
The Child Athlete Saving Bible is Human Rights in Youth Sport: (Ethics and Sport) by Paulo David that was published by Routledge December 16, 2004. “The human rights of children have been recognized in the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and ratified by 192 countries. Sport is an international language that everyone understands and a fundamental building block of Children’s Rights.Paulo David’s work makes it clear, however, that too often competitive sport fails to recognize the value of respect for international child rights norms and standards and respect for human rights of child athletes.” [critical review, Amazon.com]This text, purchased by this reporter, was thoroughly researched and was a fundamental text for Child Athlete Saving movement. Mr. Paulo David is Deputy Director, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The Thin Thirty, a book by Shannon Ragland, published in 2007 by Set Shot Press, was a monumental action toward Child and Youth Athlete Safety and Prevention of Child Athlete Abuse. TTT was also historic in the definition of Child Athlete Abuse Syndrome. The Thin Thirty enabled our team to find our teammates from our 1962 University of Kentucky Football Team that resulted in our reunion in 2008 and discussion and research of our football tragedy. TTT told our tragic football story of brain-washing brutality that reduced our squad from 88 to 33 athletes. Our thanks to Shannon Ragland and his family. So should the thanks of all Child and Youth Athletes.
In 2007 Women’s Sports Foundation began setting policy on verbal, physical, psychological and sexual abuse in an attempt to decrease these offenses. [Addressing the Issue of Verbal, Physical and Psychological Abuse of Athletes: The Foundation Position Oct 7, 2007 By Women’s Sports Foundation]
Child Athlete Abuse Syndrome (CAAS) definition by Micheal B. Minix Sr,. M.D. began following preparation in 2007 for the June 2008 UK Football Reunion. We surveyed our teams’ injuries and reported: “The Longitudinal and Retrospective Study of The Impact of Coaching Behaviors on the 1961-1962 University of Kentucky Football Wildcats” by Kay Collier McLaughlin, Ph.D., Micheal B. Minix Sr. M.D., Twila Minix, R.N., Jim Overman, Scott Brogdon.
Subsequently, Athlete Safety 1st was published and copy written 2009. As a consultant to the National Cheer Safety Foundation and other groups, this research journalist taught CAAS to advocates and organizations incorporating training following instruction in Child Abuse Recognition Education (C.A.R.E.) sponsored by Prevent Child Abuse KY and U of Louisville Department Of Pediatric Forensic Medicine.
Child Athlete Abuse was discussed during break-out session during this reporter’s C.A.R.E. training. C.A.R.E. is Child Abuse Recognition Education. In the past Child Athletes have been overlooked and not included in C.A.R.E. The staff reported after 1 month, after a pointed question, from this research journalist, (mbmsrmd), following C.A.R.E. training after the question had been submitted up the ladder to DCBS top ranking officials, concerning the investigation of Coaches for Child Athlete Abuse.
Answer from the DCBS: “The Child Safety Branch of DCBS (Department of Community Based Services which has a branch in each Kentucky county) has responded to the question regarding coaches as caregivers”……“Our agency [DCBS] investigates abuse and neglect allegations involving situations where a person is providing care, has custody or has control of a child. Teachers, camp counselors, bus drivers, babysitters, grandparents, coaches etc. fit in to that category if they are left to care for a child and the parent is not present (for supervision and caregiving). To my knowledge we are investigating these type situations in this manner across the state. If [DCBS] staff have questions about whether a person falls into these categories, they can consult with Central Office or their regional attorney.” [C.A.R.E. Coordinator, Feb. 27, 2009]
“Child Abuse Recognition Education is a very important endeavor. The mission of C.A.R.E. (Child Abuse Recognition Education) is to develop, support and grow a statewide network of doctors, key medical personnel and medical office staff who have committed themselves to ensuring the children in their communities are free from abuse and neglect as a result of receiving office-based training from their medical peers.” [Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky, http://www.pcaky.org/care.html]
Micheal B. Minix, Sr., M.D., was trained and certified with a few other doctors by C.A.R.E. for the instruction of physicians and their office staff in their community based offices about the recognition of Child Abuse. C.A.R.E. is a division of Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky.Child SRE Coaches are recognized as “Temporary Substitute Caretakers” (TSC) in the eyes of the Public Law 111-320, Child Abuse Prevention Treatment and Reauthorization Act and the Kentucky Department of Community Based Services (DCBS) and Child Protection Services (CPS).
“A bill aimed at improving safety for high school athletes won initial legislative approval.” House Bill 383 became Kentucky Law: 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 90, sec. 2, effective March 24, 2009. “Dr. Michael Minix Sr., a physician and former University of Kentucky football player, testified before the KY House of Representatives, Education Committee that coaches don’t always abide by medical guidelines and that they need to be better educated about risks to players.”
“Athlete abuse is on the rise in the United States,” Minix said.[Panel OKs Athlete Safety Bill, Feb 25, 2009, by Stephenie Steitzer Courier Journal Newspaper, Louisville, KY]
49 years after the report of Battered Child Syndrome, April 29, 2011, Micheal B. Minix, Sr., M.D., presented “Child Athlete Abuse Syndrome, A New Disease” at the Athlete Abuse Summit, Omni Parker House, Boston, MA. This was the first public conference report of mbmsrmd’s CAAS’s definition, following his scholarly inquiry, investigation, interpretation of facts and correction of accepted theories and laws because of new facts.
Dr Minix has been a member of the Brunel International Research Network for Athlete Welfare (BIRNAW) since Nov19, 2010/ BIRNAW is a group of international researchers who are working together to promote athlete welfare through research and consultancy. Brunel University is in East London, UK. Members are provided article and updates, periodically, concerning international Child Athlete Welfare.
In Suite 101, Terry Zeigler reported, “While 2010 has become known as the “Year of Concussion Awareness”, 2011 needs to become the “Year of Child Athlete Abuse Awareness”.
“Actions by coaches resulting in youth athlete injuries need to be taken seriously by both the parents and by athletic administrations. Immediate action should be taken by the team’s athletic administrations to remove the coach, report the incident to the local authorities, and assist in providing the authorities with their full cooperation during any ensuing investigation.” [Suite101: The Athlete Abuse Summits report from Terry Zeigler:http://terry-zeigler.suite101.com/child-athlete-abuse-syndrome–when-athletes-pay-the-price-a393385]
Different well-intentioned organizations have worked to improve education and awareness of all parties, particularly Coaches. They have gathered insignificant permanent effects on sports violence and abuse. Most well-intentioned have very small power and authority. So, who will rescue and prevent child and adult athlete physical and psychological (emotional) injuries and deaths and sexual abuse? As it turns out, the small advocate guys will do the rescuing. It seems the big guys won't risk their professional popularity for an advocacy.
Multitudes have been recruited for this cause from all business and professional fields, but fallen on deaf ears. Finally, well known, celebrity sports organizations and health care personnel have weighed in on the problem.March, 2013 The Cal Ripkin Jr. Foundation hosted a summit on Abuse of Child Athletes. Their summit focused on Child Athlete Sexual Abuse. Ripken he decided to take on the chief question before the sporting community: “What can we do to make kids safer?” [March 19, 2013 by Yvonne Wenger, The Baltimore Sun] That was good news. Dr Minix has awaited Sports Medicine doctors advocacy for years. Dr. James Andrews has just now stepped-up to the plate. “He’s had enough.”
“Dr. Andrews is the father of modern sports medicine and one of the most influential sports medical surgical figures in the world of athletics. In his new book (2013) “Any Given Monday”, he distills his practical wisdom and professional advice to combat a growing epidemic of injury among sports’ most vulnerable population: its young athletes.”It appears, that Dr. Andrews in his new book, Any Given Monday, (Jan 2013) has called out:
What do Coaches, parents and doctors of child and youth athletes have in common? They have a 'Duty of Care' and often share the responsibility for child and youth athletes’ protection and, likewise, their injuries and deaths. Coaches and parents are caretakers according to child protection laws, when child athletes are in their care, custody and control. Responsibility matters. Doctors are responsible for the diagnosis and treatment of athlete morbidity. Medical examiners and coroners are responsible for examination of deceased child and youth athletes following Sports, Recreation and Exercise (SRE) mortality.
All three groups are responsible for reporting the following serious injury or death circumstances: Child Athlete Abuse Syndrome is a Short Title for a Clustering of Child (<18) or Youth (15-18) Athlete Serious Injury, Disease and/or Death secondary to:
Child Athlete Abuse Syndrome and Cruelty to Children in Sports, Recreation and Exercise (SRE) are matters of importance to Doctors and Health Care Personnel. They summons all Doctors and Health Care Personnel into action for the Awareness and Prevention of these Child Athlete Preventable, Not-Accidental morbidities and mortalities. At any given time, one or another of the three adults might be blameful. All three are mandated reporters in most of the United States.
Most individuals have a clear understanding of the meaning of violence. But the laws, policies and practices that are in place to protect children outside of sport are not always applied to organized SRE play. Within certain sports, there are a variety of definitions and situational circumstances that distort the meaning of the word, violence.
In contrast, Sportsmanship is conduct, such as fairness, respect for one's opponent, and graciousness in winning or losing) becoming to one participating in a sport. [Merriam-Webster Dictionary]
“Violence in sport can be defined as behavior that causes harm, occurs outside of the rules of the sport and is unrelated to the competitive objectives of the activity.” [2.] That is the definition by sports concerns. Violence against children is universally defined and superior to sports.
Let’s be clear from the beginning. Child Athlete Abuse Syndrome and Cruelty to Children in SRE is medical doctor business. They summons all doctors for awareness, prevention and awareness of Child Athlete morbidity and mortality. If “problematic coaches and parents” are the culprits, their unlawful behaviors should trigger Forensic Medicine Investigations immediately following the incidents.
Child is defined as a human less than the age of majority, usually 18 years in each United State. The United Nations define youth as persons between the ages of 15 and 24. UNESCO understands that young people are a heterogeneous group in constant evolution and that the experience of ‘being young’ varies enormously across regions and within countries.” Minor Youth would be age 15-18. [3.] When Child is used in this publication, minor youth are also implied.
Coaches, Parents, Guardians and every Caretaker cross the line, when they cause, create or allow others to cause or create, directly or indirectly, circumstances that push and punish Child and Youth Athletes beyond their Physical and Emotional Limits and perpetrate Sexual Abuse. Doctors and Health Care Personnel cross the line when they cover-up or fail to document and Report Forensic Histories, Physical Examinations and Treatments for Child Athlete Abuse Syndrome.
Doctors and Health Care Personnel risk Criminal Charges for Failure to Report Child Abuse and potential Civil Law Suits, when unreported Child Abuse escalates because it was not reported. All Reporters have immunity to HIPPA laws and anonymity from their identity disclosure.
Child Athletes and Youth Athletes, less than 18, are Children first and Athletes second participating in SRE during every nanosecond. Child Athletes (<18) are defined and governed by their Age of Minority, not the activity in which they participate.
“No Sport is a Kingdom unto its own,”…. “No one is above the Law.” said former Secretary of State and avid Sport Fan, Condeleezza Rice. [11.]
The Code of Silence in Amateur Sports is nothing but a cover-up for bad Coaching behaviors and Child Athlete dangers. For example: The Case of the Penn State alleged cover-up will be tried later this year (2013) Every Child is covered by the Umbrella of Child Protection Law on every inch of ground, and every venue, during every nanosecond of time. That Umbrella is passed from Caretaker to Caretaker as Children pass from one venue to another.
Children are never without the Umbrella of Child Protection Law, until they reach the age of adulthood, 18 in most United States. Child and Youth Athletes Do Not relinquish their Human Rights to the Coach, School, Athletic Association or anyone when they sign-up to participate in Sports, Recreation and Exercise.
There are 2 different groups of Amateur Athletes under consideration i.e. Children and Youth Adult Athletes. This report is about Child and Youth Adult Athlete Abuse Syndrome. Most of the content is also applicable to Youth Adult Athletes.
All Coaches of Child Athletes, age less than 18, are Temporary Substitute Caretakers of Children, while the Children are in the Care, Custody and Control of the Coach during their participation in Sports, Recreation and Exercise. Child Abuse Statutes and other Legal Statutes in Adult Criminal Court are applicable, depending on the state court. In some states complex issues can be tried in both Family and Adult Criminal Courts simultaneously and it is not double jeopardy. For example in KY see KRS 620.120.
However, children victims and withesses have Rights in Court. Children should not testify in public, photographed and videotaped court rooms for many reasons.
Conversely, Adult (>18) Amateur Athletes in Sports Recreation and Exercise, College, Olympics and elsewhere enter into a Fiduciary Trust Standard of Care when they commit to play-for and provide-their-athletic-abilities in exchange for their Participation with Proper Care, Safety, Welfare and possibly Education. Legal Statutes in Adult Criminal Court are applicable. Both Child and Youth Adult Amateur Athletes are owed a Duty of Care.
Problematic Abusers will continue maltreating and abusing as long as they believe they can get away with it. Unfortunately the Will to Enforce the Law is the greatest Prevention and Deterrence of Child and Youth Athlete Abuse.
Prevent Child Athlete Cruelty and Abuse. Stop Coaches, Parents and Doctors from Crossing the Criminal and Civil Lines.
Child Saving History
“The child-saving movement had its roots in privately funded mid-nineteenth-century charitable organizations for the protection and benefit of children, such as the New York Children’s Aid Society.”
“At the movement’s height, between 1890 and 1920, child savers worked in such diverse reform efforts as fighting Child Abuse, regulating Child Labor, founding Kindergartens, building playgrounds, establishing the Juvenile Court, campaigning for mothers’ pensions, and reducing Infant Mortality rates.”
“The child-saving movement began in the latter half of the nineteenth century as a large, active coalition of women’s club members, philanthropists, and urban professionals.”
“In the United States, the child-saving movement grew in the Progressive Period as reformers responded to the problems associated with rapid industrialization and massive immigration. Child savers believed that by alleviating the perils of poverty for the young and working to Americanize the children of immigrants, they could secure a better future for their nation.”
“The progression of child saving is in many ways exemplified by efforts to combat child abuse and neglect. Starting in 1853, the New York Children’s Aid Society (CAS), headed by Charles Loring Brace, sought to save children of the urban poor by sending those who were orphaned, neglected, abused, or delinquent to live on farms with surrogate families in the West. A life with a farming family could redeem troubled youth.”
“In 1874, when a child named Mary Ellen was beaten by her guardian, the president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Eldbridge Gerry, found that the only way to prosecute the abuser was under laws protecting the rights of animals.”
“The sensational case led to the foundation of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (SPCC). CAS and SPCC were privately funded.”
“The period between 1910 and 1930 was marked by increased professionalization of social work, state regulation of child welfare, and a greater emphasis on child neglect, both physical and “moral,” rather than abuse.”
“Organizations to combat child abuse and neglect had an ambiguous attitude toward the family–they were at times child-centered, ready to intervene in private families in order to protect children, or to impose their notions of proper child rearing on immigrant and working-class families, and at times family-centered, anxious to keep families together even when the family patriarch was abusive.
“Child savers in Britain followed the American example, founding the Liverpool SPCC in 1883. Soon after, branches opened in London and other cities. Reluctant to prosecute parents, British SPCCs mainly relied on formal warnings and official visits to correct wayward parents. In 1889, the SPCC-supported Act for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children gave British authorities increased power to oversee the treatment of children.
Child savers undertook Child Labor and Compulsory Education and School Attendance Laws, Juvenile Delinquency in the late 1800 and early 1900. The first juvenile court was established in Chicago in 1899. “By 1915, nearly all states had established a juvenile court system.”
“Many child savers worked to organize the leisure time of children.” ...“In the 1920s, a greater focus on psychiatry entered the juvenile courts and Child Guidance clinics changed the way the courts looked at young offenders.” ...“The success of the Playground Movement was based in the acceptance of the idea that play was fundamentally important to the development of children and that the middle class should be involved in organizing the leisure time of the working class.” ....”Between 1886 and 1896, the YMCA transformed itself into an athletic organization. It remained an explicitly evangelical Christian organization, but sought to gain young converts through organized sports.”
“In 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was founded. Baden-Powell hoped that scouting would help boys to be physically fit and mentally prepared to protect their nation and that scouting would help boys safely negotiate the dangerous years of Adolescence
Age of Consent: “In 1885, the issue of the sexual abuse of girls exploded into British consciousness with W. T. Stead’s “Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon”. The Pall Mall Gazette. published investigations and a story described the “purchase” of a thirteen-year-old virgin by a brothel. The Age of Consent for girls was raised from 13 to 16. Law enforcement gained to prosecute those involved in prostitution. The United States subsequently raised the age of consent of girls to protect girls from sexual abuse.
Public Health: “British and American child savers worried about public-health concerns that threatened children’s well-being. Poor sanitation, tuberculosis outbreaks, and tainted food and milk supplies were all targeted by reformers.”British schools between 1906-1908 began programs to provide meals to elementary students and medical inspection of school children.
The U.S. Children’s Bureau was established in 1912 following the first Conference on the Care of Dependent Children in 1909. The Children’s Bureau first investigated the alarming infant mortality rate among impoverished city dwellers. The Bureau wrote popular instructional pamphlets and encouraged “baby saving” campaigns.
Between 1914 and 1920, the Bureau expanded and explored child labor, maternal and child health. The Child Saving philosophy changed from reform to social-science research on normal children. Numerous child-research institutes were founded, and legislative reform efforts took a secondary role. “Rather than focusing on environmental causes for children’s developmental problems, the new professional child savers focused on internal emotional conflicts to explain problems with adjustment.”
“The Progressives were most concerned with helping the so-called subnormal child, whereas the child savers of the later period focused their attention on understanding the so-called normal child.”[Title: Child Saving: An entry from Macmillan Reference USA’s Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and SocietyAuthor: CAROLINE HINKLE MCAMANT, Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA, Media: Books ISBN-10: B001S58HI8 Release date: January 01, 2004
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