[JRutledge]

JR,

I did not call anyone racist. Maybe that is your guilt running wild. I just pointed out a usage of language that I feel is rather inappropriate and something I do not hear said about other similar actions of other coaches. I have been here when many conversations when Bobby Knight did something. I did not hear anyone call him a thug. Or at least did not go around asking everyone here was he a thug for his actions. I have been a Bobby Knight supporter and he was accused of making contact with a player with a choke hold, he was even arrested in another country in a coaching position. For some reason I do not hear anyone calling him a thug. Now you want to throw in Bobby Huggins in this discussion to try to make it seem as if all is well. Bobby Huggins has not done anything either of these two men has done in his coaching position. He was even arrested for a DUI, but I would not call him a thug.

Let me also say this to you. If race was never a factor, you would not hear a bunch of very rich Black people constantly talk about it when they have a forum to speak on it. Whether it is Jamie Foxx, Halle Berry, Oprah Winfrey or Sidney Poitier, they seemed to be focused on how their race affects their lives and influences others that watch them.

Ron Zook when he was at Florida coaching football this past season took some football players and confronted a fraternity house. Funny, no one called him a thug. But Chaney instructs a player to be physical and a player gets hurt, then all of a sudden the coach is a thug. Again, I never will condone the behavior of Coach Chaney and the actions of his players. I am still trying to figure out why there was not flagrant foul to this player. I just always find it odd when Black players do nothing illegal or against the law they are called thugs and white coaches and players can have the same demeanor or attitude and they have character or they are just simply a bad guy. I heard a radio host in Chicago call Scottie Pippen a "gang leader" and to my knowledge the man has never been arrested for anything while a player in Chicago. I just find it interesting how fellow African-Americans can be thugs for doing certain things and their counterparts that are not Black just made bad decisions. I am sorry, I just find that odd.

Peace