[mhking]

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

Barnett is a total sleazeball. He nicely covered up a gambling scandal while he was head coach at Northwestern. Then there's the way he sneaked out of Evanston two days after he vowed to his Northwestern players that he would "take the Purple back to Pasadena".

[Guillermo]

saying she was "utterly distressed" by a police report that describes Barnett as siding "100 percent" with a player accused of rape.

Was she "utterly distressed when her NOW "sisters" sided 100% with accused rapist Bill Clinton?

[OldFriend]

CU is a joke of a school. Long considered the party school of all party schools why are they surprised when their students act like pigs.

[Tallguy]

I have a dim memory of a female 3rd-string place kicker at a major college that subsequently transfered to a smaller school. She then kicked and extra-point or something and everybody from Frank DeFord to Bryant Gumbel was having an orgasm over it. I also seem to recall that the reason given for her transfer was that she was harassed by another CU player -- but few details were given.

Was that Hidna? Anybody from CU know?

[MrB]

Lisa Simpson, alleges she was gang-raped at a party at her off-campus apartment in Boulder attended by football players and recruits

Two things - first, as "Lisa Simpson" I'm sure she catches enough crap without this happening to her.

And inviting a bunch of football players to your apartment and providing intoxicants couldn't have been real smart either. Not to blame her for what happened, but women need to be smarter about putting themselves in dangerous situations.

[Seruzawa]

I may be prejudiced, but I still have a bad taste in my mouth from the vicious treatment High School Freshman from the @$$hole Varsity football players with the gym coach encouraging their terrorism against the smaller weaker guys. So I love it when I see sports-bullies eat dirt.

I hope they prosecute and imprison with maximum sentences every single player who harassed this chick. Put them all on the sex offender registry. Post their photos in whatever communities they try to live. Make their lives the same miserable hell they gleefully inflicted on others.

[shadowman99]

Looks like Frank Solich might finally have a shot at a new coaching job.

[Teacher317]

University of Colorado president Betsy Hoffman put football coach Gary Barnett on paid administrative leave Wednesday night, saying she was "utterly distressed" by a police report that describes Barnett as siding "100 percent" with a player accused of rape...
"Our decision was based on coach Barnett's recent remarks about former student Katie Hnida's athletic abilities," Hoffman said. "His remarks about her were extremely inappropriate and insensitive. Rape is a horrific allegation, and it should be taken seriously."

Umm, I understand that Barnett is a sleaze, etc., but what if the allegations were made up? Is it now "unconscionable" for a coach to stand by his players "100%" in the face of any rape accusation, even a flase one, simply because it is a serious subject? Once accused, the alleged perp and all his loved ones must immediately prostrate themselves?

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Fire him and move on or get over it.

[Steve_Seattle]

It is almost beyond belief that Barnett could be so brain-dead as to make those comments - hasn't he been paying attention to ANYTHING besides football for the last 30 years?

[cynicom]

Of course all of this happened in a near vacumn, so there was no way that Hoffman could have known anything? How
does one rise to a job like that and yet operate totally clueless? Has she no eyes, no ears? Apparently no brain.

[dfwgator]

I hope Barnett gets fired, and all of the rapists are convicted to the maximum extent of the law. Having said that, why the hell you would anyone allow a woman to kick on an college football team? What was the point? It was just asking for trouble (albeit I didn't think rape would enter the picture). Did they think this would be like Helen Hunt in "Quarterback Princess?"

[hoot2]

"Regina Cowles, president of the National Organization for Women's Boulder chapter, said she thinks CU should have fired both Barnett and athletic director Dick Tharp on Wednesday. "

...and, have n all girls team; no more nasty smelling boys...

[LS]

The comments they ran on the air were insensitive at best and despicable at worst. HOWEVER, I would have liked to have seen all his comments in their entirety. Were these yanked off the end of promises to "look into this," and "find those responsible," and blah, blah? In other words, are we getting the full story of his comments?

[Jaded]

Couple of things while y'all are gathering the firewood to burn me at the stake....

1. What does talking about her abilities as a player have to do with rape? Why is it insensitive? One has nothing to do with the other.

2. College football..... 99.99999% men. If you're gonna play with the boys and try to be one of the boys, you're gonna get talked to like you're one of the boys. They sometime use foul language and call people names. GET OVER IT. Oh, I forgot, that's not PC.

3. Why don't these women report the rapes when they happen? When did we become of society of guilty until proven innocent? That evidence has no value and accusation has all value?

/rant off

[Right Wing Professor]

Oh, for heaven's sake. He criticized her kicking; he didn't say she wasn't raped. As a Husker, I hate the Buffaloes, but this is going too far.

Why don't we just make football a single-sex sport, like women's volleyball? Women kickers come along every now again. They perform marginally, never make first string, and are always one blown snap away from a major injury.

[VMI70]

She had no business being allowed to sign up in the first place.
Message to CU: "See what happens when you succumb to the PC crowd?"

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/896412/posts

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[familyofman]

The only thing a college football coach should be concerned with are wins & losses. And, maybe how big his contract is. Everything else is for wimps and losers to worry about.

[.cnI redruM]

How about a pathetically self-absorbed and disinterested response to the rape allegations? How about him just about saying? "As long as it wins a few games and it's not my daughter." What a jerk.

Crawl back under your rock Mr. Barnett.