Coach Babu | This Week in Milford

June 3, 2026

Sand(geet) Volleyball!

Filed under: ?, actual action, Coach Babu, Gil Thorp, Volleyball, wedding plans — robmize2013 @ 9:21 am

Filling in for teenchy while he takes a well deserved break from being Joan Rivers. What have we here? Beach volleyball, or practice? Hey, its summer. Why not break out a new sport? But we’re never sure until we see more, since the artist may just be using this background for now. And we have coaches, and uniforms, for practice. I already said uniforms are for GAME use only, but its falling on deaf ears. Maybe its some kind of summer league? Whatever it is, please stick with it for more then 2 days.

We havent seen coach Babu in a while either, but she is volunteering to help out at Gils wedding. Thats great. But why not talk to Beth first? Does Beth have enough bridesmaids? Maybe get that one crossed off first.

Babu qualifies her help; she will only help if she can plan ‘THE’ sangeet. https://emmalinebride.com/planning/what-is-a-sangeet-ceremony/Uh, how does she know thats even on the program? Theyre allegedly having the wedding in the school gym, and what wedding doesnt already have some music and singing (and dancing etc)? Babu wants to introduce her own personal touch, probably from her own family traditions, (reading more on it it looks like an Indian pre-wedding ceremony involving wearing special garb, and also has its own invitation) but just assuming Gil will be cool with all this, without even talking to the bride about it, is so presumptuous it borders on bizarre.

But surprise! Gil gives the ok just like that. Without a moments thought, or even consulting Beth, who is the de facto captain of the wedding ship. Just- ‘there is now’. Hey, he needs all the help he can get, no matter what radical alterations to the agenda there are. Talk about flying by the seat of your pants involving the big day.

Cant wait to hear Beths reaction. If it involves more tears, what does he do now?

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January 3, 2026

NOW Who’s Putting the “MILF” in “Milford”?

Filed under: basketball, Brown Hair, Coach Babu, Coach Ochoa, freak hands, noises, Pissy faced Gil, Prairie Style Windows — teenchy @ 8:30 pm

Don’t look now but is that actually somebody doing a sportsball thing, and is that Gil actually coaching them? Well butter my ass and call me a biscuit! Sure he’s sitting down on the job, but he’s blowing his whistle and speaking sportsball gibberish. But wait – it’s not gibberish; it’s actual sportsball terminology!

Give yourself a cookie on us, Henry.

That aside, today’s strip is still about mushy luv stuff, as Female Coach of Color Who Could Be Either Babu or Ochoa teases Gil about getting engaged and pries about his wedding plans. In so doing, she retcons that Gil is some kind of MILF bait that the sportsball moms have been swooning over for as long as she’s been paying attention. Check me on this* but wasn’t the only mom cheering for Gil the expectant mom Melissa Gordon, who referred to Gil as “her man”?

*Over the many years we’ve been doing this blog I’ve often wondered whether we should invest in copies of the numerous Gil Thorp anthologies simply as a reference? Given that they only appear to cover the Berrill Era, they wouldn’t be terribly useful for fact-checking 21st-century references. Still you gotta wonder if Rubin and Barajas had/have access to them. BTW, did you know there’s already been a Gil Thorp graphic novel published? Now you do! Where’s yours, Henry?

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October 1, 2025

Mean Tweets

Filed under: actual action, Brown Hair, Coach Babu, Coach Gonads, Coach Ochoa, Fat Guys, football, freak faces, Gil Thorp, Goshen, Lantern Jaws, Pissy faced Gil, Pissy faced minor character, Pissy faced Ochoa — teenchy @ 10:29 am

So Gil #$!@ Thorp thinks he needs a Girl, pretending to be a Boy, to beat me!!! He couldn’t beat me with the Girl on his team last year!!! He couldn’t win with the Girl Tight End!!! He can’t beat me with all these Girl Coaches either!!! Thorp HATES that I am the Valley’s #1 Coach (and I have the Hat to prove it!!!) and will do ANYTHING to take attention away from me!!! After I beat Thorp AGAIN tonight, come on down to The Barney’s Pub where the Drinks will be on me!!1! Marty Moon is even invited again, but don’t blame Me if he can’t hold his Liquor!!@! Thorp’s Girl can always cut him off, just like Thorp’s Ex-Wife cut him off for another Woman!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

-Mitch Gerads

@TheRealCoachGerads

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September 17, 2025

“…at least, not until the next round of budget cuts.”

Filed under: Coach Babu, Coach Luke, Coach Ochoa, Coach Tays, exposition comics, Gil Thorp, Pissy faced Gil, Pissy faced minor character, Pissy faced Ochoa, recycled storylines, same story 2 days straight — teenchy @ 11:45 am

Oh look, it’s Milford’s version of the Chicago Cubs College of Coaches, crammed in a broom closet for a special meeting. A meeting to decide they’re going to another meeting. Why are they acting like they didn’t know about the “the district’s* new rules and guidelines” until just now? Isn’t there someone on the staff who would’ve known about these before the season started and told them about them? Or was that someone too busy playing golf and drinking on his back porch with his squeeze?

Not to beat a dead horse, but this whole plot element should have come up as soon as Tobe put on shoulder pads three seasons ago. Why now? Did the Milford School District get gerrymandered, with a newly elected school board going after transgender athletes and anything it deems “woke”? Are there now transgender females trying to play female sports in Milford? Seems like nobody gets their panties in a wad when a transgender male tries to play male sports. Except in the Thoirpiverse.

Why does Gil feel “partially responsible”? I’m not retracing my steps here, so if you’re new to TWIM I suggest you follow this link and maybe this link.

Now let’s sit back and see how many plot holes get backfilled as the week progesses. teenchy out.

*Which schools exactly are in “the district”? Doesn’t each group of K-12 schools have their own district? Is Madison not in its own district? For these rules and guidelines to apply to both Madison and Milford, should they not have come down at the conference or state level? Pedantic, I know.

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September 8, 2025

I’d be more afraid of Moe Larry and Curly

Filed under: Coach Babu, Coach Tays, football, Gil Thorp, Marty Moon, uniform changes — robmize2013 @ 4:25 pm

First off a shoutout to my fantasy baseball team the Flying Tigers, who qualified for the playoffs for the first time in 10 years by winning their division with an 11-12 record, and having the most points among the other 2 teams that also were 11-12 in that division. Some years your division is the weaker one, and Ive been doing this for many years and never saw a losing record win a division, but thats fantasy baseball for you. Crazy competitive, and all you need to do is get in, and get hot for 2 weeks. I was 7-10 at one point and ran off 4 straight wins to take the lead and never gave it back. Playoffs are win or go home so no more losing is allowed. I’m ready for any challenge.

Just like Milford.

Yeah Marty Moon, a coaching move to another school is really gonna make a difference. Gil brushes off Martys non-question and lines up his staff behind him (hey where’s Luke and Cami??) as a show of power. Like he really needs to. They look more like the 3 Stooges then a real coaching staff. And the players staring at us in P1? They need a new artist for their jerseys. Just like we need a new artist for this strip.

Babu has grown up again to Gils eye level. We will measure her again tomorrow.

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September 6, 2025

Milford’s Next Fundraiser: babusfeet.com

Filed under: Gil Thorp, Bad Jokes, lame jokes, anatomically implausible, Brown Hair, Coach Ochoa, Cami Ochoa, noises, Coach Luke, Coach Babu — teenchy @ 7:04 pm

As Milford High’s new Coach Babu (new category added) gets shown around, not everybody looks entirely happy to see her. Ochoa implies that Babu is supposed to be a straight-up Mimi replacement. Seems unlikely, unless Babu plans to publicly flaunt her relationship with another woman in front of her husband, whom she will subsequently divorce.

Babu shows Ochoa she can take a joke, then dishes one out at Luke’s expense. Between his suspension over the seance to conjure the spirit of Pops and his Papal visit, Gil’s former obsessive nemesis has turned into the butt-monkey (work safe link) of the Milford coaching staff.

With her little retort, Babu might’ve stumbled on a way to raise money for the school. Her size 11s might not be Peggy Hill’s size 16 1/2s but they’d still probably get some hits.