18.05.28 News Zero Ichimen - Reaction of Kwansei Gakuin Univ. towards Nihon Univ.’s re-answer

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18.05.28 News Zero Ichimen - Reaction of Kwansei Gakuin Univ. towards Nihon Univ.’s re-answer on malicious tackle? - Sakurai Sho [English translation]

During the press conference held by Kwansei Gakuin University on 26 May,
the “contradictions” in the re-answer document of the Nihon University were shown.
We shall look into some of them.

First of all Nihon University stated in the re-answer document "the Club was unable to conduct hearing to the player who did the tackle".
To this, Kwansei Gakuin Univ. resented “it is extremely incomprehensible that no direct hearing was conducted to the player himself who did the tackle even in the re-answer this time”.

Next, Nihon University stated that “there was divergence (of understanding) between the head coach, the coach, and the players” and the coaches did not give out instructions of malicious tackle,
Kwansei Gakuin Univ. replied that “the former coach Inoue who should have seen the malicious tackle in the first play did not call the player back to the bench and was not even in panic, this is extremely incomprehensible”.

And then, Nihon University explained that “the wordings like “squash them”, “break them” are used daily, there was no intention of injuring other players”,
Kwansei Gakuin Univ. pointed out that “it is reasonable to understand the wordings as that, because there was such a condition “squash them ‘in the 1st play’", so the players could only accept this condition and do it”.

At last Nihon University concluded the reason of the malicious tackle to be “because the player was mentally cornered”,
Kwansei Gakuin Univ. stated that “the player recalled the facts in details during the press conference.
To put the player’s mental state as the reason is unconvinced and it will hurt the dignity of the player”.

The press conference of Kwansei Gakuin Univ. explained these contradictions.
The speech of Director Ono and Head Coach Toriuchi of American Football Club who developed a "leadership theory" which was different from Nihon University also became a topic.

Nihon University held a viewpoint that the reason of the former coach Inoue giving strict instruction was “to bring out their fighting spirits”.
When asked about this “fighting spirit”,
Director Ono of Kwansei Gakuin University said.

● Kwansei Gakuin University・Director Ono
“What is the most important to a coach is the feeling of joy arising inside the players.
Such feeling is like the candle flame,
if you blow too much it would disappear,
so you have to make the flame bigger little by little carefully.”
And Head Coach Toriuchi also remarked.

● Kwansei Gakuin University・Head Coach Toriuchi
“Since this event, I have considerably thought about the player of the other team, I feel that I am more exhausted.
“Including “is there any way to save this”, every night, every night,
I think about various things.”

As the victim side, he said that he thought about the player who did the tackle every night.
Around three weeks passed since that game.
I hope that the players could as soon as possible go back to the environment where they could play as they have been.

Source: News Zeroイチメン (http://www.ntv.co.jp/zero/ichimen/2018/05/post-364.html)

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[roo_kie]

Thank you so much!!!!