If I had to choose, I’d rather my college coach be more of a disciplinarian than too lenient. I think the BB gun antics are rather pedestrian, although the actions clearly show a level of immaturity. The real lesson to be taught is how easily these BB guns can be mistaken for actual guns and therein lies the real danger.
For reference, when I was a kid in high school and college, I helped my father train bird dogs. For this I had one of my Dad’s old “starter” pistol that fired only blanks, no red cap on the end of the barrel to indicate it was not a real gun. Because I was an idiot teenager I kept the thing in my glove box. One night I got pulled by a state trooper in town because of a busted tail light. When I opened the glove box to get my registration the starter pistol dropped out. The trooper was busy running my license on the radio so he didn’t even notice the thing and I quickly tossed it to the back of the glove box, but had he seen it things could have gotten really uncomfortable.
