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

[dooley_womack1]

I bet a Star-Ledger reporter could pull a quarter out of my ear.

 

[zagoshe]

The one thing I would say is this and it should be noted ----

The Rutgers AD had seen these tapes way back in December, the coach was fined and suspended already - so what is new here?

 

[zagoshe]

And I find it ridiculous that some people are more concerned that he used the word "faggot" than the fact that he hit kids, pushed kids and whipped basketballs at them.

Again - when we are more concerned with words - no matter how mean -- than outright violence, there is a problem.

 

[BDC99]

And I find it ridiculous that some people are more concerned that he used the word "faggot" than the fact that he hit kids, pushed kids and whipped basketballs at them.

What people?

 

[LongTimeListener]

And I find it ridiculous that some people are more concerned that he used the word "faggot" than the fact that he hit kids, pushed kids and whipped basketballs at them.

What people?

The people on the other side of zag's brain.

 

[zagoshe]

And I find it ridiculous that some people are more concerned that he used the word "faggot" than the fact that he hit kids, pushed kids and whipped basketballs at them.

What people?

The people on the other side of zag's brain.

Why don't you read some shirt instead of always trying to be the smart ass dickhead.

The forking AD of the school said the use of "that word" --- meaning faggot -- was at the heart of the suspension.

And the reason is that he knew the blowback from the gay crowd and the politically correct whiners would be enormous once this video got out.

So once again - meanie words are worse than actual violence.

 

[YankeeFan]

And I find it ridiculous that some people are more concerned that he used the word "faggot" than the fact that he hit kids, pushed kids and whipped basketballs at them.

What people?

The people on the other side of zag's brain.

The AD, for one:

The tape in question, approximately 40 minutes long and covering practices at Rutgers Athletic Center over Rice's first three years as Rutgers' coach, was the basis for the school's suspension of Rice in December for three games and fining him $50,000.

Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti said specifically the gay slur was "at the core of the suspension."

In the video, Rice is shown calling a player a "(expletive) fairy" and "(expletive) faggot."

Said Pernetti: "It absolutely concerns me. It is not acceptable."

 

[zagoshe]

And I'll take it further - I'd be willing to be a boat load of money Mike Rice would not be under the kind of fire he is under - let's face it he is getting fired tomorrow -- if he had used the words "pussy" and "forking wuss" instead of "fairy" and "faggot" - even if he was still on tape whipping balls at kids

 

[zagoshe]

It is a word. A mean-spirited word. A word people shouldn't use. But it is a word and at the end of the day nobody can get physically hurt by a word. - unlike getting kicked, pushed, hit and having a basketball fired at your head.

We used to be a "sticks and stones may break my bones" society but then somehow we let the pinheads take over and now we have become a nation of wussies

 

[Starman]

Any grown man who fired a basketball full power at another person's head from 5-10 feet away in public in view of a police officer would immediately be booked for aggravated assault.

I'd be a little worried about that if I were the AD.

Or the assistant coach handing him the balls. Can you say "accessory?"

 

[Starman]

Ahhhh, for the lovely days when we used to be able to call ni###ers and fa##ots ni###ers and fa##ots without fear of reprisal.

Those were the days. Boy, the way Glenn Miller played...

 

[DanOregon]

Maybe I'm just surprised a lawyer and or HR person presumably signed off on the initial punishment.