[NU Sports] McGee Fire or Not?

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Can't argue with what Mark  except that he should care about drunk drivers.  One mightkill someonein his family.

John DeGroat
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From: Mark Ament <prplehaze at insightbb.com>
> I'm not getting into what John meant or didn't mean, nor do I 
> particularly care how many more people may die in drunk driving 
> incidents or from drug related murders in the inner cities of our 
> country.  I do however care about the message that our coaching staff is 
> delivering to our football players about personal responsibility and 
> making the correct choices, something about which they preach time and 
> time again.  Is that message not diluted considerably by the retention 
> of someone, without at least some serious repercussions beyond those 
> applied by the legal system?  I am also concerned about the image 
> projected in the living rooms of recruits across the country as our 
> coaches sit down and try to sell this program as the peerless academic 
> and football  program we know it to be, but which is diminished and 
> subjected to negative recruiting due to the actions of a member of the 
> coaching staff.  Folks, it's tough enough out there for Fitz due to his 
> age and our standards without having to deal with this.
> 
> I have seen the impact that a DUI conviction can have on an assistant 
> coach's career, and it's not pretty.  It can become a negative factor in 
> advancement and it at least one case, cost one basketball assistant I 
> know, a head coaching job.  Fair?, probably not, but that is reality in 
> college sports and reality is what we should be dealing in.  Should 
> McGee be fired?  Probably not, but he should be disciplined in a way 
> that is at least public to the football team so they will understand 
> that Fitz and the coaches are sincere when they talk about personal 
> responsibility and self - discipline.
> 
> Mark
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