New thread: Karl Hess out of ACC

[johnny d]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

Believe me, I am one of those officials who doesn't believe we have to take sh!t from coaches and fans and stand there stoned face. I am very sarcastic, and I have a quick, biting wit. Unfortunately, that may work well at parties or shut up loudmouths at sports bars, it's not what will keep me employed as an official (also not great for marriages either). If he leaves the bigoted part of his statement out, then I see it being only a suspension. But he threw in the word "Eygptian". What is the purpose of that? Would it have been alright to say "fat", or "retarded", or "crackhead", or "orphaned" or "brown a$$"? Hess crossed a line.

Hess is from Virginia, so I know a lot of officials who know him personally, on and off the court. So far it has been unanimous that Hess does not socially interact on the same wave length as the general populous. He is known for making statements that only he finds funny, that most others find offensive or inappropriate.

So I am guessing this is not the first time Hess has said something to somebody (supervisor/officials/AD/Coach/school president/fan/ball boy) that was out of line. This may just be the last straw, and a straw that would have been the first and last for many of us.

That is fine, I am just trying to find out where the line is. To me the modifier attached to my example of dumb mother ****er, be it brown, black, fat, retarded, jewish, Egyptian, etc. would not make me any more or less offended than just being told I was a dumb mother ****er.