Nothing particularly stupid about the remark. A lot of the basketball team did have nappy hair.
As to the “Ho” part, that is a fair cop on the entire Rutgers student body. They are what they are.
A few months before whilst playing a game against a military academy team the Rutgers student body was echoing the chant “F@ck Navy! F@ck Navy! “ with great gusto. There are names for people who want to engage in that and Imus properly put one forth.
Not long ago a young prostitute who ran a web cam service out of his dorm room committed suicide and the university made a great show of prosecuting his roomate for uploading views of the activity on a free venue.Theft of services I guess.
You can be upset over the hair comments if you want, and I don’t like a lot of Imus’ politics or his crassness but... the basketball team never did squat to distance themselves from the immorality regularly flaunted by the student body at Rutgers so “Ho” is a fair description.