The facts don't matter in academia or in the media. Notre Dame was hammered without pause for firing a very deserving Tyrone Willingham. ND and its fans were and continue to be called racist for booting that racist. It doesn't matter if a male coach would have been fired for doing the same thing; ND would have also fired a white coach in a similiar situation, where the team was getting destroyed by middle of the road programs and the coach was too busy on the golf course to go recruiting. That doesn't matter to the PC police. All this coach has to do is go to the national media and blame her firing on homophobia, even if there's no evidence to support her. In that case, the national media will eat it up and LSU will get labeled homophobic the same way ND got labeled racist for firing Tyrone Willingham.
Pokey having inappropriate relationships with players and TW running ND into the ground are two different situations for firing. If TW would have slept with his players it would have been much easier to find an excuse to fire him. Don't ya think?
For once, I really agree with the jist of what your saying Bitter as for as the PC police being like that, I just don't think the Pokey situation will come to that level because LSU handled it like they should (at least so far). You are definately right about other situations much the same way. I hate to bring up this issue but it really starting to bug me how the media and especially the big ESPN'S of this world are really pushing this minority coaching agenda in college football. I'm not saying it doesn't happen occasionally, but the whole idea that simply because the ratio of coaches is what it is, we need to make this huge ordeal and change it just for the sake of change does not add up at all. In fact, I think this idea is ludicrous. I think that every program in this country wants to win as their first and foremost priority and that if their are a number of coaches in the hunt for a job, the one who they think will give them the best chance to compete for a NC will win, regardless of his color. Maybe I am being naive, but even if I am, how is pushing for this just to push for it going to help anything? Say they do force a couple minority coaches into particular coaching positions because of this "special initiative?" That will makes things ever worse because everybody will say they got the job simply because of essentially it being a matter of "affirmative action". Like I said before I'm not naive, I understand that real racism occurs in America everyday, but the idea the media wants us to accept as facts about this topic are not logical. So does that mean that since their are less white football players (and basketball players for that matter) we need to simply increase the total to "properly proportionalize the numbers to reflect the population?" Of course not, that just means there are some incredible minority athletes who are the best candidates for the job at their respective positions and their coaches want the best opportunity to win. So why would the inverse be true with the matter of a coaching situation? I just wish the NCAA could quit worrying about this crap like banning all the team nicknames that start with an indian tribe name cause it might offend 1 person out of million (another rediculous pc agenda pusher) and the minority coach deal and start worrying about enforcing recruiting violations (USC HAHA):lsup: LSU!
