Frank Acierno (FGCU) Greed

Greed is very prevalent in today’s society.  It is okay to be greedy with possessions that belong to you but i feel it becomes a serious moral issue when people become greedy with things that do not belong to them.

I play a sport for this school.  One day after a home match our coach had told us to go out and eat and the bill was on him.  So myself and the rest of the team went out and enjoyed ourselves as we were told.  Our coach payed for the bill obviously with the budget money that is reserved for that type of thing.  However the next day at practice our coach had told us that we had spent way too much money and that we each had to pay him $18 for the money that we had gone overboard.  I found this hard to swallow since my meal was only 9 dollars and my coachhad told us that he would pay for it.

As expected nobody paid him back, weeks later we played another home match and the coach at the other school had asked me if we were getting food after the match I told him no and he was shocked.  He explained to me after every home match he feeds his team.

This made me begin to ponder, how big is our tennis budget?  If the coach at Etsu could afford to pay for his team to eat at every home match why wouldn’t we?  We are in the same confrence and have the same budget amount.  On a more serious note how come my teammates and I do not get to keep our uniforms while the girls team has so much apparel they could clothe a small army.  Lastly, why is our coach asking for money back from us for something that he not only said he would take care of but infact should be dont on a more regular basis.

This had now happened a month ago and our coach is still asking for 18 dollars from each player.  Last week one of my teammates asked if the seniors were going to be able to recieve a warmup jumpsuit as promised to them in the beginning of the year by our coach.

My coaches reply shocked me he said he could not get them their warmup suite because he said that he had already spent $1500 dollars of his own money on the program this year.  I believe that $1500 dollars were spent but it definatley wasen’t spent out of his pocket it came from the budget. (which has to be atleast 10k)

This really bothered me that he referred to the budget money as his own money.  Money that is meant to be spent on us and athletics is being referred to as his.

I think that this is somewhat of a natural instict  of people which needs to be seriously addressed.  When people are given something they sometimes use it for the wrong reason or even call it their own when it isn’t theirs at all

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