UT and other SEC Schools and Fans Racists?

[Tux]

Pat Forde has been busy fighting a campaign to impugn the reputation and name of the University of Tennessee for Cuonzo Martin leaving Tennessee. Now Frank Haith leaves Missouri for a lesser job and now Forde decided to paint with broader brush and implies that the SEC schools and their fans are racists.


Is Forde accurate?

Or is Forde just another media member with an agenda to push?


http://sports.yahoo.com/news/frank-haith-merely-the-latest-african-american-coach-to-leave-sec-for-lesser-job-060826346.html?soc_src=mediacontentsharebuttons

 

[hep]

Meanwhile the Big 10 fields all white basketball teams and no one says a word.

 

[govols120]

It's a pretty dumb take, but Forde is trying to get viewers and by clicking on it you're doing what he wants you to do. Same stuff Whitlock/Reilly do.

Nice of Forde to politely ignore that Mizzou was about to fire Haith anyway because dude sucks at coaching.

 

[SoonerVol]

As for me, I do not see black and white, but only orange.

 

[OrangeInKy]

It's a pretty dumb take, but Forde is trying to get viewers and by clicking on it you're doing what he wants you to do. Same stuff Whitlock/Reilly do.

Nice of Forde to politely ignore that Mizzou was about to fire Haith anyway because dude sucks at coaching.

And he should be serving a show cause

 

[Special Ed]

Pat Forde is a KY homer.
He had not a discouraging word to say back when KY axed Tubby.

 

[govols120]

Pat Forde is a KY homer.
He had not a discouraging word to say back when KY axed Tubby.

Lives in Louisville, worked for a Louisville newspaper, authored Rick Pitino's book. Nope.

 

[CTVolsfan14]

As for me, I do not see black and white, but only orange.

and Oklahoma crimson apperantly..

 

[OrangeInKy]

Would be interesting to see what league has had most black coaches last 15-20years. SEC would have to be near the top.

 

[Chilmonty]

Wondered when someone would play the race card!

Obvious questions that Forde will not ask:

1. Who "FIRED" Kawanzo??

2. What "Racist School" would hire a black coach in the first place??


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[volatil]

This is beyond ridiculous. If the SEC were racist, no black coach would be hired. I for one want a black coach (Smart) to replace Martin.

 

[SmokeyLives]

Forde is short on material....again.

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

So were Martin and Haith not black when they were hired?

 

[BearCat204]

This is beyond ridiculous. If the SEC were racist, no black coach would be hired. I for one want a black coach (Smart) to replace Martin.

I want the best coach, I couldnt give the first **** about what color he was.

 

[Peytons forehead]

He goes on to say the big ten and ACC each have one black coach. yet the SEC after losing 2 still have 4! This guy is a joke.

 

[Fijivol72]

Pat Forde has been busy fighting a campaign to impugn the reputation and name of the University of Tennessee for Cuonzo Martin leaving Tennessee. Now Frank Haith leaves Missouri for a lesser job and now Forde decided to paint with broader brush and implies that the SEC schools and their fans are racists.


Is Forde accurate?

Or is Forde just another media member with an agenda to push?


http://sports.yahoo.com/news/frank-haith-merely-the-latest-african-american-coach-to-leave-sec-for-lesser-job-060826346.html?soc_src=mediacontentsharebuttons

Now why would that be? Geography, I call bs.

 

[volatil]

I want the best coach, I couldnt give the first **** about what color he was.

That's why I want Smart

 

[presskh]

Meanwhile the Big 10 fields all white basketball teams and no one says a word.

Meanwhile, other schools field all-black teams and no one says a word either.

Playing the race card every time a black person is criticized for not performing as expected gets pretty old. Neither Martin nor Haith were fired - true, each was criticized for their teams not living up to fan expectations (however unrealistic), but that happens everywhere. All coaches face fan scrutiny and criticism - it comes with the territory and the paycheck at a good D-1 school.

 

[govols120]

Yeah, did Forde forget about this article from two years ago? SEC's pretty far ahead of the curve on this item.

NY Times on minority basketball coaches

 

[livefaith]

Wondered when someone would play the race card!

Obvious questions that Forde will not ask:
1. Who "FIRED" Kawanzo??
2. What "Racist School" would hire a black coach in the first place??
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Since when did Logic interfere with a good Emotion? :unsure:

 

[Fightmaker]

Pat Forde has been busy fighting a campaign to impugn the reputation and name of the University of Tennessee for Cuonzo Martin leaving Tennessee. Now Frank Haith leaves Missouri for a lesser job and now Forde decided to paint with broader brush and implies that the SEC schools and their fans are racists.


Is Forde accurate?

Or is Forde just another media member with an agenda to push?


http://sports.yahoo.com/news/frank-haith-merely-the-latest-african-american-coach-to-leave-sec-for-lesser-job-060826346.html?soc_src=mediacontentsharebuttons

Did you just ask if he was accurate

 

[livefaith]

So were Martin and Haith not black when they were hired?

It was all a smokescreen then. Now the underbelly appears. :huh:

 

[Stoked]

How come there is not one article about how our team didn't have any other races but one last year. If they want to make an issue about it don't have a double standard. If there was an all white team or all latino or Asian all hell would break loose. Just my .02...

 

[OrangeInKy]

Off the top of my head, I count 10 black hc's in SEC since 98 when Tubby went to UK. At that time, you had 2 sitting black hc's

 

[SDV]

Yes. We had a black head coach with an all black staff, with the exception of one white assistant, all all black team and we're racist.