Bedroom Slippers

I'm not slave to fashion trends. My idea of dressing nicely is wearing a collared polo shirt with my board shorts. But I do know what is in bad taste.

I tell my players it is unacceptable to wear their shorts down by their knees. Especially if it's Patrick Henry football shorts. I tell our players they set an impression to the student body, teachers, administrators and to the public and they represent me and the football program. So wear your clothes the way it was meant to be worn.

Yesterday during weight training, two of our players showed up in bedroom slippers. You know, black footie-foot bedroom slippers that you wear after you crawl out of bed on a cold winter morning.

I asked both players if they wore them to school. They said yes. I was thrown for a loop. They looked like extras for the next episode of the 'Jerry Springer Show'.

The impression these players made to me was they were too lazy to put a pair of shoes on. It was too hard to slide on a pair of shoes and it was way too hard to tie the shoe laces in a knot. For goodness sakes, who wears bedroom slippers out in public let alone school?

So to make the decision making process easier for my players, I said the next person who wears bedroom slippers to school will be suspended for the team for the week. Any second offense will result in the removal from the team.

Bedroom slippers! For the love of....