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

[wicked]

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

 

[YankeeFan]

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

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

 

[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

Tell all this to Tyler Clementi's family; I'm sure they'd love to know that throwing rubber balls at athletes are the real problem here, not the flinging of harmless slurs.

Oh get the fork out of here with that bullshirt.

Dude was caught on tape forking 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 forking 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...... :

 

[Dick Whitman]

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.

You'd be down with it had he called them "nuggets"?

 

[Dick Whitman]

Do we really think it was malicious?

Is that a clown question, bro?

 

[Small Town Guy]

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

Tell all this to Tyler Clementi's family; I'm sure they'd love to know that throwing rubber balls at athletes are the real problem here, not the flinging of harmless slurs.

Oh get the fork out of here with that bullshirt.

Dude was caught on tape forking 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 forking 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...... :

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 forking Stone Age forever.

 

[YankeeFan]

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.

 

[dixiehack]

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

 

[dooley_womack1]

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

 

[Dick Whitman]

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

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

He did not disappoint.

 

[Dick Whitman]

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.

What if he had called them "nuggets"?

 

[Chef2]

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.

What if he had called them "nuggets"?

Or "nappy-headed hopes"?