We can despise the system and the person in that room at the same time.
The athlete development machine that is youth sports churns out young people who, by the time they make it to the top, have been praised and guided and adulated from their early days of sport.
That this system produces people who are pieces of shit cannot be a surprise to you people.
I've sadly accepted you're finally old when you realise your views as a kid on sports - that most athletes are good people and there are a few rotten apples - is the reverse. That any athletes emerge from the asshole factory as contributing members of an ethical social system is actually the great surprise.
Never meet your heroes.
The athlete development machine that is youth sports churns out young people who, by the time they make it to the top, have been praised and guided and adulated from their early days of sport.
That this system produces people who are pieces of shit cannot be a surprise to you people.
I've sadly accepted you're finally old when you realise your views as a kid on sports - that most athletes are good people and there are a few rotten apples - is the reverse. That any athletes emerge from the asshole factory as contributing members of an ethical social system is actually the great surprise.
Never meet your heroes.