Thursday, April 04, 2013
Political Mayhem Thursday: Mike Rice is fired
Yesterday, it came out that Rutgers had fired men's basketball coach Mike Rice for abusing his players.
Based on the video above, I think this was the right decision. Student-athletes should not be treated this way.
Still... my sport in high school was distance running, which wasn't exactly susceptible to the same kind of tactics (the whole sport, after all, was about running away fast). What do others think?
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The guy clearly wanted to play or coach dodgeball.
Touching a player, even grabbing them by the jersey, can be an effective part of coaching, and fussing at them is almost necessary in many cases.
But this guy seemed so awkward at it, and what he did was not in the natural course of teaching. He definitely needed to be fired.
Touching a player, even grabbing them by the jersey, can be an effective part of coaching, and fussing at them is almost necessary in many cases.
But this guy seemed so awkward at it, and what he did was not in the natural course of teaching. He definitely needed to be fired.
I can just picture Coach Gauerke(sp) pushing someone off the top of Vernor Hill. Coach Edwards - maybe. In the pool there was an occasional errant pull buoy lofted in the general direction of a swimmer but then our heads were underwater and eyes following a black line on the bottom of the pool.
A picture (video) paints a thousand words and we have no idea what 'was' going on ~ lacking audio. I did hear that at the time the Rutgers AD fined the coach $50k and suspended him for 3 or 4 days so it is not as if they didn't address the situation in house.
A picture (video) paints a thousand words and we have no idea what 'was' going on ~ lacking audio. I did hear that at the time the Rutgers AD fined the coach $50k and suspended him for 3 or 4 days so it is not as if they didn't address the situation in house.
Just an observation. Just a mile marker.
My sense is that this is a national scandal because of a certain f-word. Not a four-letter f-word that we all grew up believing was vulgar. But a six-letter f-word that is (and has always has been) equally vulgar, but, at this moment, much more politically poisonous than the old four-letter f-word.
It is a good thing Mike Rice got his just desserts in the end. When I watch him abuse his players it makes my stomach hurt. Damn him!!! For this he should have been fired years ago. It is a good thing that Rutgers held those administrators who were willing to cover for Rice accountable, finally. Damn them!!!
However, my observation (or perhaps merely a question) is this:
I just wonder if Mike Rice could not have continued to kick and bully and curse his players with the old four-letter f-word with impunity (getting about as much grief for language as Jon Stewart does--basically zero), if he had not uttered that one problematic word. But, in his stupidity and brutality and brazenness and vulgarity and arrogance and ignorance, he stepped on a lethal political correctness land-mine. BOOM!!!
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My sense is that this is a national scandal because of a certain f-word. Not a four-letter f-word that we all grew up believing was vulgar. But a six-letter f-word that is (and has always has been) equally vulgar, but, at this moment, much more politically poisonous than the old four-letter f-word.
It is a good thing Mike Rice got his just desserts in the end. When I watch him abuse his players it makes my stomach hurt. Damn him!!! For this he should have been fired years ago. It is a good thing that Rutgers held those administrators who were willing to cover for Rice accountable, finally. Damn them!!!
However, my observation (or perhaps merely a question) is this:
I just wonder if Mike Rice could not have continued to kick and bully and curse his players with the old four-letter f-word with impunity (getting about as much grief for language as Jon Stewart does--basically zero), if he had not uttered that one problematic word. But, in his stupidity and brutality and brazenness and vulgarity and arrogance and ignorance, he stepped on a lethal political correctness land-mine. BOOM!!!
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