[NU Sports] McGee Fire or Not?

[Mark Ament]

Well, you're right John.  I do care in a real sense just not for 
purposes of a discussion on this board.
Mark

johnadeg at comcast.net wrote:
> Can't argue with what Mark  except that he should care about drunk drivers.  One mightkill someonein his family.
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> John DeGroat
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> From: Mark Ament <prplehaze at insightbb.com>
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>> 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.
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>> 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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