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HONOLULU - Hawaii coach Greg McMackin was suspended for 30 days without pay and has volunteered to take an additional 7 percent pay cut from his $1.1 million salary for making a derogatory comment while describing Notre Dame’s chant before last year’s Hawaii Bowl.
“I know most of the coaches in the country are rooting for us to beat Notre Dame,” McMackin said. “Charlie gives this talk, ‘We do something special at Notre Dame,’ and (the players) get up and they do this little cheer ... this little f*ggot dance.”
“Don’t write that ‘f*ggot’ down. I was misquoted,” he said. “Just please … cover for me,” McMackin said. “Go ahead, say ‘f*ggot dance.’ No. Please cover for me on that, too — right Karl? I’ll deny it. Anything else?”
About 15 minutes after McMackin left the room, he returned and added, “I want to officially, officially apologize. Please don’t write that statement I said as far as Notre Dame. The reason is I don’t care about Notre Dame. But I’m not a … I don’t want to come out and have every homosexual ticked off at me. You know what I mean, because I don’t have any problem with homosexuals. But I apologize for saying that and I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t run that word. If you said ‘dance,’ that’s OK. But don’t use the bad term that I chose, please. Thank you.”
What would have happened if a homosexual would have made a disparaging remark about, let's say a white Christian male? Absolutely nothing. The contemporary double standards of what can and cannot be said are a joke.
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The contemporary double standards of what can and cannot be said are a joke.
Boy, you got that right........it's ok to make Redneck jokes even here on city data, they are nothing but White jokes,,, try saying gay, black ,or hispanic jokes reprimand city......rednecks and Blondes ok though??????????????
Maybe there is a double standard, but seriously, I expect coaches to speak better than some drunken reprobate of a fan, it's just decency, I wouldn't expect General Neyland or Bear Bryant to talk like that.
Plus with today's hyper sensitivty, people are asking for it if they don't be smart about their language. Far as I am concerned, dude got what he deserved (maybe a little much but still) cause he could have got the same point across without the word, it's just common sense in the media age.
i think he knew immediately that he didn't express himself well .... he let his emotions of notre dame and his dislike for them get in his way and use a poor choice of words
i don't think he was trying to disparage homosexuals and apologized pretty much immediately for it
he should get a nice reprimand, but 30 days seems excessive
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