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Sumner High School wide receiver Tyler Lynch is currently committed to play at Syracuse in two years. In the meantime, his high school football coach will not let him get away with skipping class.

George Selvie and his staff came up with the most humiliating punishment possible for this generation.

Lynch was required to skip up and down the entire field five separate times all by himself. His high school football teammates got to watch and laugh.

Who is Tyler Lynch?

Lynch is a multi-sport athlete at Sumner High School in Riverview, Florida. When he is not tearing up the track or scoring buckets on the hardwood, he catches passes— on both sides of the ball!

Listed at 6-foot-2, 195 pounds, Lynch averaged 39 yards per game as a wide receiver with five receiving touchdowns through the first 10 games of the season. He also recorded four interceptions and eight total tackles as a defensive back.

Although there is still a long way to go before pen hits the paper, Tyler Lynch is currently committed to play college football at Syracuse in the Class of 2027. His junior season nears its conclusion in the coming weeks.

The Stingrays finished the regular season as district champions with an overall record of 8-2 and will host a playoff game on Friday as the No. 3-seed.

Back in my day (as chopped unc), punishments for high school football were usually physical— like up-downs, push-ups, wind sprints or log rolls. Nothing was worse than the ‘Big Four.’

Athletes were required to bear crawl 100 yards, roll 100 yards, sprint 100 yards, and leap frog 100 yards. Those who really needed to learn a lesson were straight-up benched.

Head coach George Selvie and the high school football staff at Sumner took a different approach.

Tyler Lynch recently got caught skipping class. Rather than making him run, the punishment fit the crime.

He was required to skip 500 yards while all of his teammates watched.

In an era of high school and college sports where image and “aura” is so important, this might actually be more effective than physical punishment. Lynch looked silly in front of all of his friends (and TikTok). Brilliant.