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WHY THE HELL HASN'T MIKE RICE BEEN FIRED YET?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by shockey, Apr 2, 2013.

  1. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    The university president signed off on the suspension? Wow. He'll be Spaniered soon enough.

    http://president.rutgers.edu/public-remarks/letters/regarding-mens-basketball-coach
     
  2. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    “Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”

    These people have no integrity. get rid of them all.
     
  3. zagoshe

    zagoshe Well-Known Member

    Oh get the fuck out of here with that bullshit.

    Dude was caught on tape fucking other dudes or whatever - that is AN ACTION mot a word.

    Stop trying to compare apples to oranges.

    A roommate out a guy by showing his videotape of him with another dude is not even in the same neighborhood as a basketball coach calling his players fairies.

    But this is what happens with political correctness and when we attach stigma to certain words because the weak minded whiners among us have managed to make this a nation of pussies.

    Give me a fucking break.

    Oh but I wait, I also see the connection here to weak-minded pussies - essentially Mike Rice wanted to play dodge ball with his players so the same cream puffs whining about his use of a few words are also now whining because dodge ball is an evil bully sport...... ::)
     
  4. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    You'd be down with it had he called them "niggers"?
     
  5. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Is that a clown question, bro?
     
  6. Small Town Guy

    Small Town Guy Well-Known Member

    Zag thinks everything all started going downhill in this country when we didn't cross the 38th parallel and push those rice-eaters back to the Great Wall of China and take it apart brick by brick and nuke them back to the fucking Stone Age forever.
     
  7. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    For all his bluster, Zag is close to making a point.

    Rice wasn't denigrating anyone for being a homosexual. He was using the words as putdowns, to call the players manhood into question. He could just as easily have chosen to call the players "pussies" instead, and the meaning would have been the same.

    Now, that doesn't mean I condone the use of the words in that manner. I don't. It's wrong. It's indefensible. (Of course using a comparison to a female to denote a lack of strength, courage, or toughness is wrong as well.)

    But, the totality of his behavior should have been enough to have already cost him his job. To single out the use of these words as the reason for his earlier suspension appears to minimize the rest of his behavior.
     
  8. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Put another way: If an ax murderer got arrested, you wouldn't highlight the breaking and entering charge that also appeared.
     
  9. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    But still, seeing the little green guy pop up out of nowhere and bluster is one of the fun things on the board.
     
  10. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I stopped by this thread this morning solely in the hopes that Zag would be railing against Rice's firing.

    He did not disappoint.
     
  11. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    What if he had called them "niggers"?
     
  12. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    Or "nappy-headed hoes"?
     
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