Jordan Phillips

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@LESkaer @corahalll If they truly thought was making good progress, they wouldn’t have left themselves without a HC 2 wks before the season. So again, it’s almost as if there’s more to the story. Doesn’t mean the info you know is wrong, it means the info you know is not the only info that exists.

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@LESkaer @corahalll I’d encourage anyone to consider it might’ve felt like he was being “railroaded” because that wasn’t the only thing going on at the time, its just the only part people can use “exonerated of” as an excuse for so they can pretend the rest never happened. I know, I was also there.

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@SBR_creative 19/ Sorry if this posted in the wrong order, but I appreciate you taking the time to read. It was not my intention to start a debate, just to state and inform people of events that happened which aren’t up for interpretation or debate. Just something for people to think about.

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

Really disappointing to see another woman-led womens softball team hire someone who has a history of not protecting women. Come at me all you want, he did what he did and his “successes” dont change any of those disgusting failures.

[Tennessee Softball @Vol_Softball]

knocked it out of the park

meet our new associate head coach, Ehren Earleywine!

📰 https://t.co/7wQoxM7lhK

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@SBR_creative Hey Scott! I took the time to watch and hear what he had to say and I hope you do the same to my response:

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@SBR_creative 18/ The only way we can truly protect young athletes is by acknowledging every part of the story and making sure that someone else’s experienced trauma doesn’t because their trauma too.

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@SBR_creative 17/ Articles and interviews with predetermined angles don’t give the full story, even this one doesn’t paint nearly the full picture of what went on.

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@SBR_creative 16/ I hope everyone he encounters from here on out has nothing but a completely positive experience, but people need to know his history so they can make an informed decision that’s best for them.

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@SBR_creative 15/ Again, I want nothing more than for anyone directly or indirectly related to softball or any other sport, to have the absolute best experience, because sports are incredible and some of the best times of my life.

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@SBR_creative 14/ No one made him do that. No one made him come back for “redemption”. He chose to be a coach, he chose to do what he did, and regardless of whether you think he should be back as a coach or not, the fact that he failed to protect those people is the harsh reality.

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@SBR_creative 13/ You don’t get to start over or rage-quit and restart like it never happened. Life isn’t a video game and sports are never more serious that someone’s life. And if you aren’t prepared or able to do that, then you shouldn’t.

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@SBR_creative 12/ It is your job to protect them as best as you can and that means you wear multiple hats, play multiple roles in their lives, and you just do it because it’s your job.

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@SBR_creative 11/ When you step into a coaching role, you are held to a higher standard because you have to be. You’re in charge of humans - real humans - who are young and new to the adult world.

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@SBR_creative 10/ I played multiple sports growing up and in college and no matter what someone is doing today, that doesn’t change the physical or emotional trauma that already happened to them.

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@SBR_creative 9/ But you can’t have the history he has and pretend that the actions don’t have consequences, because they do and they have.

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@SBR_creative 8/ For the sake of the current and future athletes I really truly hope in the bottom of my heart that he is capable of being the coach he says he’s become, I mean that.

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@SBR_creative 7/ That’s why I said that the accomplishments don’t change what happened (and is still happening post-trauma for some) because it will never change that for them.

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@SBR_creative 6/ A good coach - a good person - would do that. That’s the difference here. He had good successes as a coach, but his failures are what makes him a coach who should not have been in the sport or in a dugout again.

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@SBR_creative 5/ They would still check in on a person when things were obviously not okay, when they were a shadow of themselves, depressed, injured, hopeless - you name it. He did not do that.

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@SBR_creative 4/ He ignored mental and physical health. He did not care. If he did, he would have checked in. He did not check in. That good coach I mentioned getting caught in the moment with the wrong words?

[Jordan Phillips @jphlip24]

@SBR_creative 3/ A good coach can get caught in a moment and say the wrong thing, but that’s not what he did. He pushed and pushed and pushed, requiring more and more through severe pain and injury.