WPTF: Duke should have hired a black football coach because of racial tension last year
Posted December 18th, 2007 at 8:30 AM by Jon SandersNote: This entry has been changed for reasons listed above.
Just before 8 a.m. this morning, someone on WPTF criticized Duke University for not hiring a black football coach1 instead of David Cutcliffe. Specifically, this person touted the candidacy of Grambling State coach Rod Broadway, former N.C. Central head coach who has worked as an assistant at several N.C. universities, saying,
In light of what happened last year at Duke, with all the racial tension, this would have been a great fit for them. (Emphasis in the original.)
Now that is just plain irresponsible. What concerns me is that those comments might represent another instance of “truth by repetition,” where the truth about the notorious rape hoax at Duke gets forgotten over time as campus leftists (who don’t have the personal integrity to apologize for their hateful hysterics) and flippant journalists return to the old, thoroughly debunked racial assumptions about it.
Now I don’t know why Duke chose David Cutcliffe over the other candidates, but I doubt race entered into the equation. And clearly there were many good reasons to tout Broadway as a candidate — he was (as noted also on WPTF) a championship-winning and award-winning coach at N.C. Central, for example, and he also was an assistant at Duke under Steve Spurrier when Duke tied for the ACC title. Race isn’t one.
And the idea that hiring a black coach would be a great way to ameliorate racial tension is even worse reasoning. Campus leftists, a cowering administration, an out-of-control prosecutor, journalists jumping to conclusions, and huckster strippers were the ones inflaming racial tension last year at Duke. No football coach could, by dint of his skin color, have done anything to stop them.
Note
1. Here is an article by sportswriter Barry Jacobs that also heavily emphasizes Broadway’s race, and I cannot help reminding readers what race-obsessed News & Observer columnist Barry Saunders said when N.C. State hired Sidney Lowe as head basketball coach, shortly after he implied the athletics director was racist for not hiring Dereck Whittenburg.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:43 am
As an Ole Miss grad all I can say is unless there is a Manning cousin out there that can score 35 points a game don’t look for much change. Cut’s defenses repeatedly gave up big plays to opposing offenses (Texas Tech threw for an NCAA Record 700 yards in one game!) and we had to out score the other team to win.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:47 am
Taylor Zarzour is an idiot. This has been well-established.
dook HAD to go with an offensive guru — credited with making the Manning boys NFL stars — like DC given its inability to recruit at every position, at least for awhile.
DC gives them a chance to land 4 or 5-star HS QB recruit whom DC then builds an offense around and at least makes dook football interesting and entertaining — maybe even win 3 or 4 games a year. That would be a tremendous upgrade.
The fact is that not even dook can afford to have NOTHING in the way of football revenue, that and the facilities are so rundown that other ACC schools were complaining.
December 18th, 2007 at 11:18 am
[...] Professional race provocateur Barry Saunders — who has made a fool of himself before with his knee-jerk habit of implying racism whenever a black coach isn’t hired — has indeed played the race card over Duke’s choice in football coach. Did he think the “brothers” (Saunder’s word) who interviewed with Duke had better resumes than David Cutcliffe? Possible, but it’s hard to overlook that to Saunders, Karl Dorrell and Rod Broadway’s race was their top qualification, when his lede paragraph states: What a crock. Duke University had a chance to do the right thing last week, but instead it did the white thing. [...]
December 18th, 2007 at 11:19 am
I think a better recommendation to reduce racial tension would be that frat boys everywhere never, ever hire strippers who aren’t the same race that they are. White lacrosse players + white strippers = no racial tension.
December 18th, 2007 at 11:46 am
As a tidbit the Star QB Cutcliffe recruited as Manning’s replacement at Ole Miss Michael Spurlock was a dud at QB but Sunday became the first Tampa Bay Buc in history to score on a kickoff return.
December 18th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Jon,
Maybe you live in a world where you can say whatever the hell it is you want but I don’t. So maybe you should listen to the segment before you write something like “Zarzour: Duke should have hired a black football coach because of racial tension last year.â€
That’s complete garbage. I did NOT say that on air this morning nor do I believe it. Our Executive Producer, Mark Shiver is the one that did. Since I don’t know how to post the audio on this site I will gladly email it to anyone that would like to hear who said what.
I find it unbelievable you would post something that is so untrue. I would get fired for being so inaccurate. Must be nice to live in a world with no accountability.
Taylor Zarzour
taylor@curtismedia.com
December 18th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
[...] I received a note from Taylor Zarzour in reference to my post this morning, the salient portion being: I did NOT say that on air this morning nor do I believe it. Our Executive Producer, Mark Shiver is the one that did. Since I don’t know how to post the audio on this site I will gladly email it to anyone that would like to hear who said what. [...]
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