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Thanks guys and gals,
I really appreciate your feedback. I realize that a letter might very well fall on deaf ears, but I went ahead and wrote the letter, and will mail it tomorrow. In the end I figured it couldn't hurt. I CC'ed all administrators that I could find.
While I think my motives might come into question, if they take an honest look at the situation...I'm not from their state, I don't know their school, and we are highly unlikely to ever see this team again.
For a couple posters who asked, I'm a white guy. However my step daughter is African American. Our team's racial makeup is about 50:50. Not suprisingly, this guys team is 100% white, they were getting spanked by about 25 when this guy went off. His specific comments were:
"You gonna let that big, corn-fed N____ run all over my girls" to the ref.
"Play defense on that monkey" yelled towards his team.
and as he was being ejected, towards the refs "If you weren't such a God D@#ned N______ lover you would have seen that charging call". I honestly thought he was going to attempt to slug the ref when he made this last comment
All of these comments were made loud enough to be heard by many spectators.
Suprisingly this guy was back at the tournament for the game the next day. We played them again, he behaved himself this time.
Sorry for it taking so long to reply, I've been at the hospital welcoming my new daughter to the world.
Thanks again to all who replied,
Mike
PS - The Adolf Rupp comment made me laugh, if you only knew how close this tournament was to Lexington.
[Edited by grizwald on Jan 5th, 2006 at 11:37 PM]
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