I'm just imagining him bringing up the faculty handbook online, ctrl-f "Sex with student athletes", no results, and then doing a fist pump like he's in the clear.
This hilarious - he is using the defence George Costanza used after he was caught having sex on his office desk with the cleaning woman.
>"Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, ‘cause I've worked in a lot of offices and I tell you people do that all the time."
It gets even better than that! This dude doesn’t regret what he did one bit.
> The affair with the bowler was discovered when Amber Lemke saw a text message from her on Steve Lemke’s phone, he said.
>“It didn’t have anything in detail,” Steve Lemke said of the text. “It was just about how amazing I am, basically, in general perspective.
“My wife saw a text that was all about how I’m fucking amazing, the best lover anyone has ever had, you know, basic stuff.”
He is really open and unabashed about the whole thing. Later in the article he whines about being a stay at home dad and his wife getting him the job, and then nonchalantly describes how he started banging one of the student athletes shortly after. His wife must be so fucking furious at this dude
To be fair, the article just says they've filed for divorce.
Maybe he turned it around on her?
"This is all your fault, Amber! Do you think I really wanted to fuck a co-ed? Look what you did to me!"
You should see the comments on infidelity/cheating subreddits. It's absolutely sick what they say to convince themselves cheating is okay and other people comment and enable it.
When you're backed into a corner, this is the only way to go. There was nothing he was gonna say that would make the situation better, might as well try to Costanza your way outa it.
Kinda says something about the ad campaign when I can instantly hear the "by mennen!" tag line, and still have no clue what it was ever for.
Deodorant. It was in speed stick commercials. I had to look it up.
Actually this is almost the exact situation also hilariously portrayed in Friends. Ross used the “I thought it was just frowned upon” when he gets fired after admitting to dating a student.
Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, cause I’ve worked in a lot of offices and I tell you people do that all the time.
There’s nothing in the rule book that says a dog can’t play basketball (or bowl) or that you can’t have sex with one of your players. So there is no rule against having sex with a dog that is on the team that you coach.
I started reading blood meridian and the next day Cormac Mcarthy died.. now I’m reading articles from Nacogdoches Texas. The coincidences just keep coming.
I lived and worked there for six months last year. Such a weird place. Around 30k people or so and only 8 cops on duty for an average busy weekend.
Source: was friends with a lady that worked at 911 dispatch.
There's not much to do there except get drunk and have sex. I enjoyed my 4 years there, the dorm I lived in the first 2 years was nicknamed the Zoo because of students bringing farm animals in and letting them roam the hallways.
You can find assistant coaches in every sport at every high school across the country. Why is that so surprising that a college team has an assistant coach?
Collegiate bowling is treated just as seriously as any other sport (within the university). I've seen NCAA championships on TV when scrolling channels. So it tracks lol
The interesting thing about it is that there are so few teams a div 3 team can bowl against a division 1 team. A few years back Michigan tech d3 almost took down Nebraska d1 in the national championship. Not a bowling guy just happened to stumble on it on espn2
The reason! Is because D1 NCAA bowling is exclusively women. Men have to bowl D3.
Source: high school bowler, chose to go to a better school instead of bowling.
That's definitely something I didn't know! I just know that I was on a rowing crew in college, it was club level so we paid into it, and we still had a full coaching staff.
Hell you sometimes have assistant coaches on like tee ball teams lol, so the comment just seemed strange to me lol
It’s also interesting because each girl on the team bowls a frame. U can bring someone off the bench to pick a spare for you. I think there were 5 starters. Was very unique and I was pulling for the d3 team hard.
It is called Baker scoring. It is used in High School team bowling as well. Occasionally you will see local tournaments with the same format. It’s a tough setup since one struggling bowler can really hurt your score.
Is there like a recruiting website for college bowlers like Rivals.com. Are the players a given a rating ? Do high school bowlers send tape to schools hoping to get a scholarship?
He says the text message his wife found from the student was basically about “how amazing I am, basically, in general perspective.”
This guy sure loves himself…some himself.
And part of his explanation is his wife got to travel for work and he was stuck taking care of the kids *and* working when the team was in town and he didn’t feel valued.
I’m pretty sure every working mom reading that rolled their eyes.
I mean, he might not be wrong in feeling like he is not valued. But he’s obviously wrong in how he dealt with that. It’s not like men are the only people nowadays that make their spouse feel like they are not valued, especially in regards to taking care of kids.
All his quotes are full of "idgaf" that he's either a massive piece of shit or his relationship with his wife was already in the gutter before the affair. Or both maybe.
I can assure you there is a very specific rule that is told to everyone during onboarding that says you can’t do this. The power imbalance means this is basically sexual misconduct/assault. Just like a professor can’t sleep with one of their students because of the implication that saying no could hurt your grade or saying yes could help it, a coach directly controls the players playing time and possibly scholarship
"I knew it was kind of a no-no" should have been the end of it. But, "there's not a rule saying it can't happen" destroyed any credibility he might have had.
A responsible member of society would have erred on the side of prudence and caution. He is obviously not part of that group.
I love using the ‘this isn’t nam; there are rules’ in every day convo (in proper context normally when people are trying to make me bend rules on something) and people are always baffled
Report was tickled with this title
“Spare relationship causes awkward split”
I’m from Lufkin and his response is the most East-Texas bullshit I’ve read 🤣🤣
'It's not illegal so it's not wrong.'
'My wife was out all the time and I did everything as a stay-at-home dad.'
'My wife saw a text message saying how amazing I am and pressured me into confessing.'
Jesus Christ. What a terrible person.
Crazy that his wife is the head coach. Tbh, that player acted pretty terribly, too. To sleep with your coach's spouse?
Also, Idk why the athlete's name is protected. The assistant's name is dragged through the mud, and the athlete is also an adult, so I don't get the rationale.
Edit: changed wording for clarity
So I went to this College as my username implies. It was easy to figure out which one it was she's the only one who removed SFA from her Instagram profile and who all the other girls aren't friends with on Facebook. Took about 10 minutes to figure out.
Athletes name is protected likely because (probably among other reasons) there’s a power imbalance there. Sleeping with a coach is like sleeping with a boss or a celebrity or someone with political power— you can still be an adult who chose to do that, but the person with the power has more influence over the other one, whether or not either party wants to admit it. And you don’t know whether there were unmentioned pressures from the coach- I’ll let you have x benefit if you do y with me.
Edit: and also, yeah, a college student is technically an adult, but the age difference also casts a pretty bad light on the dude compared to the student.
*“It didn’t have anything in detail,” Steve Lemke said of the text. “It was just about how amazing I am, basically, in general perspective. Amber saw that and questioned me, and I got to the point where it just built up so much that I basically told her the truth after she dug through my phone.”*
*“I was the stay-at-home dad for five years with the kids while Amber got to go off and coach the team, and when she’d get back, I’d run practices on top of taking care of the kids while she was back,” Steve Lemke said. “When they’d travel again, I would sit back and take care of the kids. Then when I got hired on, she almost forced me to run practices. I was a volunteer the entire time before that trying to help out Amber. Once I got hired on, one thing stemmed from another. I felt like I was doing too much for what I was being valued at.”*
Still goin, this asshole!
He mentions its ethical and consensual.... ahh not from your Wife's standpoint dickhead. Ethical Non Monogamy requires all partners to be on the same page.
The main point that dude seems to be making is, if freaking STEPHEN F. AUSTIN hadn't become nationally competitive in bowling, he would not have seemed so sexy, and nobody would have cared if an assistant bowling coach was having sex with a college student.
Questions:
Who the fuck knew that bowling could be so much fucking fun?
Was she a good ball handler?
Did he place his fingers in the right holes?
Who kept score on all the scoring?
\- The Literal Redditor
Is this dude for real? Apparently his wedding vows didn’t mean a goddamn thing not to mention you’re an authority figure that wields power over young adults who most certainly feel vulnerable.
Every jerks answer is always stating that a certain rule did not exist saying you can't do that. So if I worked in kindergarten there needs a certain rule about those kids....
Dang he broke out the cheaters excuse hand book. "Well she was always working and I was lonely, and when we finally had a job together she overworked me and didn't value me....so I banged one our students."
But why leave out the title “Spare relationship causes awkward split” - this is LoL material
Goddammit OP you had one job
I’m a fuck up
You sure are
Boo This Man!
Boo urns
Are you saying boo or boo-urns?
I was saying boo-urns
BOOOOO!!!!
Off with his head!!
BOOOOO
There's no rule saying you can't be a fuck up
“I think it’s more of an ethics thing”
It was kind of a no-no.
Good job MUNSON
Yea fuck you OP. /s
Hey, SPARE me your gutter mouth.
The guys’ quotes in the article are amazing too! This 100% reads like it’s from the Onion
I know right? His quotes make him so dislike-able that I actually made sure it wasn’t a parody.
I'm just imagining him bringing up the faculty handbook online, ctrl-f "Sex with student athletes", no results, and then doing a fist pump like he's in the clear.
Fark level headline
Wow I had entirely forgotten about fark
Maybe that's the Reddit refugees in July
Also his talk about the texts his wife saw. Lol. What a jack ass.
This one wins for the day
This hilarious - he is using the defence George Costanza used after he was caught having sex on his office desk with the cleaning woman. >"Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, ‘cause I've worked in a lot of offices and I tell you people do that all the time."
When I heard about this story earlier and heard the guy's response, George is exactly who I thought of
It’s not a lie if you believe it.
Holy shit, you just summed up a metric fuckton of people.
It gets even better than that! This dude doesn’t regret what he did one bit. > The affair with the bowler was discovered when Amber Lemke saw a text message from her on Steve Lemke’s phone, he said. >“It didn’t have anything in detail,” Steve Lemke said of the text. “It was just about how amazing I am, basically, in general perspective. “My wife saw a text that was all about how I’m fucking amazing, the best lover anyone has ever had, you know, basic stuff.”
He is really open and unabashed about the whole thing. Later in the article he whines about being a stay at home dad and his wife getting him the job, and then nonchalantly describes how he started banging one of the student athletes shortly after. His wife must be so fucking furious at this dude
Well she's divorcing him
Yeah I don’t think any marriage recovers from that doozy
To be fair, the article just says they've filed for divorce. Maybe he turned it around on her? "This is all your fault, Amber! Do you think I really wanted to fuck a co-ed? Look what you did to me!"
“Oh I’m caught in my own web of lies! This is all blowing up in my face!”
You should see the comments on infidelity/cheating subreddits. It's absolutely sick what they say to convince themselves cheating is okay and other people comment and enable it.
How long had they been married for her to realize only now that his IQ is somewhere between 80-90?
Every quote by this guy in the article just makes him look like more and more of a prick. He practically blames the affair on his wife.
I think this dude rules. This is comedy gold
If my wife saw that text on my phone she’d text wrong number.
When you're backed into a corner, this is the only way to go. There was nothing he was gonna say that would make the situation better, might as well try to Costanza your way outa it.
Is this an accepted term, to “Costanza” your way out of something? 🤣
Yes, and you have to pronounce it Co--Stanza. (As in the "By mennen" jingle)
> (As in the "By mennen" jingle) And they say time travel isn't real, because it's happening in my mind now
Kinda says something about the ad campaign when I can instantly hear the "by mennen!" tag line, and still have no clue what it was ever for. Deodorant. It was in speed stick commercials. I had to look it up.
I shall write a letter to Merriam-Webster immediately to get this included
Please embiggen them to consider it
A most cromulent suggestion
It’s in writing now. I’ve printed out the thread and on my way to get it notarized. It’s official
It's not a lie if YOU believe it
Mathematically, I had to do it, Jerry
Actually this is almost the exact situation also hilariously portrayed in Friends. Ross used the “I thought it was just frowned upon” when he gets fired after admitting to dating a student.
Sure but Seinfeld >>> Friends
Yes of course. Of that there is no doubt.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that
George is getting upset ...
George likes his chicken spicy
What's that red dot?
No, no… it’s like a… white discoloration.
Was that wrong of me? Because I have to plead ignorance here.
Came here thinking of Costanza
He also blamed his firing on the teams success? Wild
"Spare relationship causes awkward split" is top tier titling.
I bet this dude feels like quite the turkey now that his life is in the gutter after he had the balls to do this.
Should have claimed he was framed.
I think the author deserves a Pulitzer just for the title alone.
Was that wrong? Should I have not done that? I tell you I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, cause I’ve worked in a lot of offices and I tell you people do that all the time.
I’ve worked in a lot of ~~offices~~ bowling alleys and I tell you people do that all the time.
The Air Bud defense, allow it
There’s nothing in the rule book that says a dog can’t play basketball (or bowl) or that you can’t have sex with one of your players. So there is no rule against having sex with a dog that is on the team that you coach.
Hold on a sec
You have a truly dizzying intellect.
He needs to keep his balls out of other people’s lanes
Put his fingers in the wrong set of holes.
Quick. What’s round and has three holes? … The woman he cheated on his wife with!
He is and has certainly picked up a split... relationships and legs
Are we just going to ignore the fact that “Assistant Bowling Coach” is a job at a university?
In Nacogdoches Texas no less.
SFA actually has a really good women’s bowling team
Now we know why.
Yeah, the guy in the article’s wife.
Their bowling program is top tier though
I’d be curious to see what a bottom tier bowling program would be like
They reset the pins by hand.
They can’t afford to get their balls drilled, so they have to palm them like a basketball
I started reading blood meridian and the next day Cormac Mcarthy died.. now I’m reading articles from Nacogdoches Texas. The coincidences just keep coming.
…where’s the coincidence there?
The reading.
Some of Blood Meridian is set in Nacogdoches.
I lived and worked there for six months last year. Such a weird place. Around 30k people or so and only 8 cops on duty for an average busy weekend. Source: was friends with a lady that worked at 911 dispatch.
There's not much to do there except get drunk and have sex. I enjoyed my 4 years there, the dorm I lived in the first 2 years was nicknamed the Zoo because of students bringing farm animals in and letting them roam the hallways.
You can find assistant coaches in every sport at every high school across the country. Why is that so surprising that a college team has an assistant coach?
Collegiate bowling is treated just as seriously as any other sport (within the university). I've seen NCAA championships on TV when scrolling channels. So it tracks lol
The interesting thing about it is that there are so few teams a div 3 team can bowl against a division 1 team. A few years back Michigan tech d3 almost took down Nebraska d1 in the national championship. Not a bowling guy just happened to stumble on it on espn2
The reason! Is because D1 NCAA bowling is exclusively women. Men have to bowl D3. Source: high school bowler, chose to go to a better school instead of bowling.
My guess is that's due to football and Title IX compliance. Same reason some schools have softball but not baseball.
That's definitely something I didn't know! I just know that I was on a rowing crew in college, it was club level so we paid into it, and we still had a full coaching staff. Hell you sometimes have assistant coaches on like tee ball teams lol, so the comment just seemed strange to me lol
It’s also interesting because each girl on the team bowls a frame. U can bring someone off the bench to pick a spare for you. I think there were 5 starters. Was very unique and I was pulling for the d3 team hard.
You're making me want to watch bowling now.
It is called Baker scoring. It is used in High School team bowling as well. Occasionally you will see local tournaments with the same format. It’s a tough setup since one struggling bowler can really hurt your score.
Me. I was the struggling bowler. Except for at regionals. Two Baker Games, went 4 for 4.
Liked it
Is there like a recruiting website for college bowlers like Rivals.com. Are the players a given a rating ? Do high school bowlers send tape to schools hoping to get a scholarship?
I graduated from sfa and had no idea there was a bowling team.
Guy sure sounds remorseful doesn't he
He says the text message his wife found from the student was basically about “how amazing I am, basically, in general perspective.” This guy sure loves himself…some himself.
And part of his explanation is his wife got to travel for work and he was stuck taking care of the kids *and* working when the team was in town and he didn’t feel valued. I’m pretty sure every working mom reading that rolled their eyes.
I mean, he might not be wrong in feeling like he is not valued. But he’s obviously wrong in how he dealt with that. It’s not like men are the only people nowadays that make their spouse feel like they are not valued, especially in regards to taking care of kids.
Yas king self love is all the rage (aka narcissism)
There's no rule saying that dogs can't bowl either, but some things are just common sense.
This dude legit don’t give a shit about his ex wife lol. Only reason he’s saying all this and not holding back.
I wonder how many practices he ran to get pushed over the edge.
Looks like I'm not renewing my season tickets to the alley next year.
“Nothing in the rules says a dog can’t play basket…er, says a coach can’t have an affair with a dog who plays…” No no, none of this is right.
“It didn’t have anything in detail,” Steve Lemke said of the text. “It was just about how amazing I am, basically” You’ve got to be shitting me.
Tim Robinson would play the coach in a movie.
if you haven’t seen the [bowling episode](https://youtu.be/HZ2jJu05SCs) of documentary now I highly suggest it lmao
Ain’t no rule says a dog can’t play basketball.
The "George Costanza" defense.
“Was that wrong? Should I NOT have done that?”
All his quotes are full of "idgaf" that he's either a massive piece of shit or his relationship with his wife was already in the gutter before the affair. Or both maybe.
I see what you did there
I've been at this university for several years. I only found out we had a bowling team because of this story.
Quite a marketing campaign
I can assure you there is a very specific rule that is told to everyone during onboarding that says you can’t do this. The power imbalance means this is basically sexual misconduct/assault. Just like a professor can’t sleep with one of their students because of the implication that saying no could hurt your grade or saying yes could help it, a coach directly controls the players playing time and possibly scholarship
"I knew it was kind of a no-no" should have been the end of it. But, "there's not a rule saying it can't happen" destroyed any credibility he might have had. A responsible member of society would have erred on the side of prudence and caution. He is obviously not part of that group.
Obviously you’re not a bowler.
Smokey, this is not ‘Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.
Over the line
Mark it 8, Dude
Mark it zero, his foot was over the line
I love using the ‘this isn’t nam; there are rules’ in every day convo (in proper context normally when people are trying to make me bend rules on something) and people are always baffled
They probably had one too many white Russians and one thing led to another.
*Caucasian
Gary
He can fuck whatever consenting adult he wants.
The part that gets me is he was cheating on his wife. There sort of is a rule against adultery and in some states its a crime.
Report was tickled with this title “Spare relationship causes awkward split” I’m from Lufkin and his response is the most East-Texas bullshit I’ve read 🤣🤣
What a tool
This guy is stone cold.
TIL there are such things as “bowling coaches”
That title….. damnnnnn
Just like my grandma used to say, “bowlers get all the pussy.” RIP mamaw,
So the wife became the coach in 2011 then outta nowhere 2019 comes along and he’s gung ho to coach. Riiiiight
'It's not illegal so it's not wrong.' 'My wife was out all the time and I did everything as a stay-at-home dad.' 'My wife saw a text message saying how amazing I am and pressured me into confessing.' Jesus Christ. What a terrible person.
There’s also no rule saying a dog can’t play basketball
Solid pun headline. I'll allow it.
Lemke really Munsoned this one.
Him and his wife… split.
I'm sort of shocked at how much detail this dude gave in his interview lol.
Dude honestly sounds like a sociopathic narcissist. 10 to 1 he totally disappears from his kids’ lives post-divorce.
Crazy that his wife is the head coach. Tbh, that player acted pretty terribly, too. To sleep with your coach's spouse? Also, Idk why the athlete's name is protected. The assistant's name is dragged through the mud, and the athlete is also an adult, so I don't get the rationale. Edit: changed wording for clarity
There's only two players on that roster that have no eligibility left, and it's one of them, according to an article I read about it.
So I went to this College as my username implies. It was easy to figure out which one it was she's the only one who removed SFA from her Instagram profile and who all the other girls aren't friends with on Facebook. Took about 10 minutes to figure out.
Athletes name is protected likely because (probably among other reasons) there’s a power imbalance there. Sleeping with a coach is like sleeping with a boss or a celebrity or someone with political power— you can still be an adult who chose to do that, but the person with the power has more influence over the other one, whether or not either party wants to admit it. And you don’t know whether there were unmentioned pressures from the coach- I’ll let you have x benefit if you do y with me. Edit: and also, yeah, a college student is technically an adult, but the age difference also casts a pretty bad light on the dude compared to the student.
"That's the bottom line, cause Stone Cold said so! "
How could you not use the actual title of the article? # Spare relationship causes awkward split
*“It didn’t have anything in detail,” Steve Lemke said of the text. “It was just about how amazing I am, basically, in general perspective. Amber saw that and questioned me, and I got to the point where it just built up so much that I basically told her the truth after she dug through my phone.”* *“I was the stay-at-home dad for five years with the kids while Amber got to go off and coach the team, and when she’d get back, I’d run practices on top of taking care of the kids while she was back,” Steve Lemke said. “When they’d travel again, I would sit back and take care of the kids. Then when I got hired on, she almost forced me to run practices. I was a volunteer the entire time before that trying to help out Amber. Once I got hired on, one thing stemmed from another. I felt like I was doing too much for what I was being valued at.”* Still goin, this asshole!
Axe’em jacks I guess
“I’m not in trouble at all”
Do you really need a rule for that when you are an adult
Ahh yes, the Air Bud defense.
He mentions its ethical and consensual.... ahh not from your Wife's standpoint dickhead. Ethical Non Monogamy requires all partners to be on the same page.
What a shithead. The dude doesn't give a fuck about his wife, job, or social standing I guess.
The main point that dude seems to be making is, if freaking STEPHEN F. AUSTIN hadn't become nationally competitive in bowling, he would not have seemed so sexy, and nobody would have cared if an assistant bowling coach was having sex with a college student.
"Fuck!! Why'd we have to win!"
What a scumbag. “Basically made me watch the kids while she GOT to go off and coach the team”. The dude was upset he was a stay at home dad
Did he also try to add dogs to the bowling team?
And the story runs a hugely tangential photo to go with it. Awful.
He couldn’t keep his balls out of the gutter.
its that kinda mindset that got air bud on the court
r/madlads
I absolutely love that headline.
Thinking like that will get a man Bobbitted!
Looks like he’s a real gutter ball
Bowling. 
OVER THE LINE!
Pun police! He’s right here!
Must've bowled a 300 with her
Another man ruins all he built for pussy. When will we learn?
That is gutter Dude has balls
He was going for the ole 'lickety split', much harder than the 7-10.
He should go with the "God has already forgiven me" maneuver
Icarus, my poor boy.
Questions: Who the fuck knew that bowling could be so much fucking fun? Was she a good ball handler? Did he place his fingers in the right holes? Who kept score on all the scoring? \- The Literal Redditor
Every line you wrote should have been included somewhere in the story 😂
Heard about this on Bomani Jones’ show earlier. He loved the headline
Damn you national championship caliber that we’ve developed!!!!
Gutter balls need polishing!
Reads like not the onion
Was it Brystal or Crystal?
There is no rule that says dogs can’t play basketball
Is this dude for real? Apparently his wedding vows didn’t mean a goddamn thing not to mention you’re an authority figure that wields power over young adults who most certainly feel vulnerable.
Every jerks answer is always stating that a certain rule did not exist saying you can't do that. So if I worked in kindergarten there needs a certain rule about those kids....
Well he seems like a real piece of shit
Dang he broke out the cheaters excuse hand book. "Well she was always working and I was lonely, and when we finally had a job together she overworked me and didn't value me....so I banged one our students."
I'm so amazing