Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 30, 2012

Caulfield is no fair-weathered friend!

I do believe Coach Hacker may be planning a dodge ball session for Caulfield’s PE period as revenge. Never smart mouth the guy who has the Dodge balls. Or that big 4 footer we had to play crab soccer with.

I wish I was as quick witted as Caulfield.

I don’t get it. It may be because I’m in the UK…

Ditto here Alun Rundle.

I’m an Yank.

I’m from UK, but:

‘HEAT’ = temperature / interrogation from Caulfield :)

If a coach’s team is 2 – 10, it means he only has two wins to ten losses and because a coach’s job security is dependent on wins…the “heat” is pressure on the coach to get more wins.

@Agent54We called that the “cage ball.”

he makes the strip

Hey, Hacker, run a few laps around the gym, you’ll warm right up. And seriously, you could use the exercise….

The inflated status of coaches deserves to be taken down. At the public school level, they are rarely competent teachers, yet given classes so they might rise to principal or superintendent if they have enough winning seasons. At the college level, they outrank a Nobel laureate. I only had one coach/teacher who was even competent. but heard of another one. The irony is in Texas, they don’t even have to be certified teachers, but can’t rise in the ranks if they aren’t. Theoretically, a rich enough school district could have hired Tom Landry when he retired from the Cowboys.

bigpuma, all these people know each other. Joking around, even with superiors who know them well, is what people do. With apologies to Cindy Lauper, people just wanna have fun… Don’t you see that he is a little bit Brear Rabbit? Bugs Bunny? Groucho Marx? Mark Twain? John Lennon? His namesake? He’s not the first wiseguy I’ve run into….

Frazz is smiling at Caulfield’s remark, but the way the panel is composed neither the coach nor Caulfield sees him react, so Frazz isn’t encouraging Caulfield or dissing Hacker to his face. Caulfield, btw, must have an IQ of about 150.

Hacker (the coach) is completely oblivious to anything but the most direct statement. Since Frazz’s actions are genuinely helpful, it doesn’t matter what he says around Hacker, and non-athlete students don’t even register on Hacker’s radar.