[NU Sports] Basketball Coaches salaries
Dennis W. Brandt
tbng at comcast.net
Sun Mar 15 11:45:45 CDT 2009
<I wonder what the impact on Duke's basketball program recruiting iwas of
the treatment the Lacrosse players got from the Duke faculty. Coach K pulled
a <Bushie and hid under his desk and said nothing either before or after the
players had been cleared. That didn't say much for Coach K's character in my
opinion.
A "Bushie?" I presume you mean Dubya. Should a president comment on an
ongoing case? Had he come out in favor of the Duke boys, the politically
correct crowd would have called him every racist name in the book. The fact
is that no one knew for quite some time that the Duke boys weren't guilty.
They would have called him a racist for commenting afterward, too, truth
notwithstanding.
Recently,the retired dean of York College, Robert V. Iosue (pronounced
Yaz-way) wrote an op-ed piece lamenting the absence of free speech on
college campuses, essentially an attack on the currently acceptable form of
bigotry known as political correctness.
http://ydr.inyork.com/ydr/opinion/ci_11852842
However, Iosue never, to the best of my knowledge, ever brought up this
issue while he was dean, at least not publicy. Why not? Maybe he didn't
want to be "Summerized" by speaking words not sanitized through the PC
thought police department. Krzyzewski probably kept his mouth shut
beforehand because he had no personal knowledge of what happened and
afterward because he wanted to avoid PC crucifixion. I have no concern with
Coach K. I would prefer that Duke give a good ass-kicking to the 80 or so
holier-than-thou faculty members who rushed to judgment before hearing the
facts.
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