George Najjar got a place in the New Jersey Football Coaches Hall of Fame last summer. He's won a lot of football games for at least two different public high schools. He is a terrible coach.
Sayreville defensive coordinator George Garcia is a loser, who somehow thought that supplying steroids to children was a good idea.
How can I say that, without ever having met him or seen one of his teams play? Because anyone whose teams are capable of sexually assaulting their members is a terrible coach. Hazing and bullying is not coaching. It's just violence. And if this guy's players thought it was OK to commit such violence against the younger, weaker kids in the program, then Najjar failed miserably at his job.
Najjar is a disgrace, and the fact that even one of his players' parents can stand up for him reflects a sad misunderstanding of what it means to teach or coach. Just as with the Horace Mann sexual abuse scandal, this event was precipitated in part by a bizarre belief among some weak-minded, immoral adults that bullying their kids was a coaching style.
It's not a method or a style, it's a failing. Let's get that straight.
