Does anyone out there watch Survivor? (I have a no-crappy-TV rule in my apartment.) Do you know Benjamin? He’s the one with the weird Hebrew tattoo. Is he as much of a douchebag on the show as he apparently is in real life?
Ben Wade skipped out on his job as Southwest Baptist University women’s soccer head coach in mid-season to go film the show - without telling the school about it. When he got back, the school deservedly greeted him with a pink slip. Enjoy the schadenfreude, after the jump.
Southwest Baptist College is in Bolivar, Missouri, where “Coach Wade” had headed the team for four years. On his now-expunged profile, Wade gushes about the school: “I like small communities and it is obvious that the community respects and enjoys having SBU here. I think the facilities are unbelievable and the Meyer Wellness and Sports Center rivals anything that any NCAA Division II University has. I have been very impressed and have had a positive experience.”
Not positive enough to tell your bosses you’re ditching your team with two weeks left in the season to go play around in Brazil.
SBU athletic director Brent Good said the school bought out the remaining three months of Wade’s contract because Wade did not tell Good that he left the team at mid-season to be on television.
“He said he was going to be gone for a week,” Good said. “And the week went beyond that, which went beyond that, which went beyond that.”
But don’t worry! He’s moving to Hollywood to be an actor now! “I’m going to be the next big thing on the big screen,” Wade said.
For people like this, any personal or professional relationship is just a tool to use to find fame. You think he cared about his students or his school?
Wade sees coaching as another form of manipulation. “You have to find out what everybody wants, what everybody needs, what they think they want, what think they need and then you have to be the person that solves everything.” He knows these skills will be valuable in the game of SURVIVOR.
God, I hope he gets eaten by piranhas.
3:07 pm on February 23rd, 2009
That show's still on?
3:08 pm on February 23rd, 2009
He looks like Rush singer/bassist Geddy Lee.
3:34 pm on February 23rd, 2009
not only that he was the worst athlete so far
3:56 pm on February 23rd, 2009
Somehow I just can't picture this guy as a women's college soccer coach.
4:33 pm on February 23rd, 2009
No wonder his last meal with the team was horse rectums and caterpillar larvae.
5:44 pm on February 23rd, 2009
Hebrew tattoo, Baptist university - it wasn't going to work out, anyway.
7:54 pm on February 23rd, 2009
Yes brooks, this guys is as big of a douche as you might guess. Total tool.
10:42 pm on February 23rd, 2009
Yeah, it's still on, and still good. Coach IS a douche, though. He was being all creepy to one of the girls (what sort of coach was he at this school, hmm?) and she spurned him, and lo and behold, he hates her and gets her voted off. I think even the piranas would feel dirty if they fed on him.
10:10 am on February 24th, 2009
This guy is on the wrong show……he should be on VH1's Tool Academy!
3:41 pm on February 25th, 2009
I know the guy personally…maybe the most arrogant and stuck up person i know….You all got it right. The team went like 1-4-1 after he left and they were having a very good season…if they had won one more game they probably would have gone to the national tournament. Total sellout.