Hiring

[zreb]

a black coach at Ole Miss is a bad idea, not because there's not several qualified and capable, but because when things go badly, and they will, any criticism will draw the "racial flag". Firing will cause an expensive divisive lawsuit with racial implications regardless of the circumstances. Our enemies will use it against us forever. Anyone else can hire and fire a black without consequences, Ole Miss cannot. Because we are Mississippi, we suffer from prejudice.

 

[HONKifUvCOACHED4BAMA]

a black coach at Ole Miss is a bad idea, not because there's not several qualified and capable, but because when things go badly, and they will, any criticism will draw the "racial flag". Firing will cause an expensive divisive lawsuit with racial implications regardless of the circumstances. Our enemies will use it against us forever. Anyone else can hire and fire a black without consequences, Ole Miss cannot. Because we are Mississippi, we suffer from prejudice.

Disagree. If firing him will be considered racist, what is hiring him considered?

I think this is a Fraudian slip on your part.

 

[GoodOReb]

a black coach at Ole Miss is a bad idea, not because there's not several qualified and capable, but because when things go badly, and they will, any criticism will draw the "racial flag". Firing will cause an expensive divisive lawsuit with racial implications regardless of the circumstances. Our enemies will use it against us forever. Anyone else can hire and fire a black without consequences, Ole Miss cannot. Because we are Mississippi, we suffer from prejudice.

You are thinking 20 years in the past! Unless a violation of contract (Freeze), most coaches are fired for not winning enough games (Croom).

 

[zreb]

Don't know where you've been but obviously not in MS. MS can do no right when it comes to race. Regardless of performance, we WILL take the race hit.

 

[em6126]

Granted that hoops does not have the profile of football, but there wasn’t much controversy when we fired Rod Barnes.