College Bball Thread

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Official release on Beard's firing,

[HoosierCoop]

5 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Official release on Beard's firing,

Wow!  They did it.

[Josh]

Beard next stop:  Alabama football

[HoosierHoopster]

Just now, HoosierCoop said:

Wow!  They did it.

Was never in doubt. No way UT would stand by with that out there.

[IUc2016]

 

Sad, racist, despicable human beings. 

[HoosierHoopster]

33 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

*immediately wants to check Texas's 2023 recruits for poaching purposes*

*wondering what Liam McNeely thinks about this*

And somewhere, a certain once-signed UT player now at IU is liking his move all the more

[rcbowla]

 
Sad, racist, despicable human beings. 

Not sure that's racist. Age discrimination, maybe. Stereotype of an athlete, maybe. Not sure it was racist though. But then again I don't know the character of the individual.

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[IUc2016]

3 minutes ago, rcs29 said:

Not sure that's racist. Age discrimination, maybe. Stereotype of an athlete, maybe. Not sure it was racist though. But then again I don't know the character of the individual.

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Questioning whether an african american player can read is pretty obviously racist.

Doubt they make that comment if it were Trey Galloway or Miller Kopp

[Stuhoo]

1 minute ago, IUc2016 said:

Questioning whether an african american player can read is pretty obviously racist.

Doubt they make that comment if it were Trey Galloway or Miller Kopp

I believe the professionals that name this stuff would call it "implicit bias," or, in layman's terms, stereotyping. 

And while we won't know, it seems less likely that Miller Kopp or Gallo would have received that comment.

[IUc2016]

1 minute ago, Stuhoo said:

I believe the professionals that name this stuff would call it "implicit bias," or, in layman's terms, stereotyping. 

And while we won't know, it seems less likely that Miller Kopp or Gallo would have received that comment.

In my career, I deal with this very very often. Do you want him to explicitly say black people can't read to call it racism? Or is that still stereotyping?

Implicit bias is unintentional and unaware. You will be hard pressed to get me to believe that comment fits that bill

 

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

16 minutes ago, IUc2016 said:

Questioning whether an african american player can read is pretty obviously racist.

Doubt they make that comment if it were Trey Galloway or Miller Kopp

Lol. Not racist at all. More likely, "he's an IU player, he can't read" type of stupidity from a Purdue fan or "he's too young and never learned cursive."

[RaceToTheTop]

14 minutes ago, Loaded Chicken Sandwich said:

Lol. Not racist at all. More likely, "he's an IU player, he can't read" type of stupidity from a Purdue fan or "he's too young and never learned cursive."

Can we just talk about how stupid the 'joke' was?  First poster says that cursive is becoming a lost art -- meaning kids aren't taught it.  Follow up 'joke' is to say 'I'll bet that an IU player can't understand it!".....well, yeah, because as the first poster pointed out, it isn't taught.

Analogy:

Me:  College kids today don't know how use a rotary phone

Indiana Jokester:  I'll bet a player on Purdue can't do it!

Me:  So your joke is basically to repeat what I said but replace 'college kid' with 'Purdue'?

Point being:  the joke is either racist, stupid, or both.

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

4 minutes ago, RaceToTheTop said:

Can we just talk about how stupid the 'joke' was?  First poster says that cursive is becoming a lost art -- meaning kids aren't taught it.  Follow up 'joke' is to say 'I'll bet that an IU player can't understand it!".....well, yeah, because as the first poster pointed out, it isn't taught.

Analogy:

Me:  College kids today don't know how use a rotary phone

Indiana Jokester:  I'll bet a player on Purdue can't do it!

Me:  So your joke is basically to repeat what I said but replace 'college kid' with 'Purdue'?

Point being:  the joke is either racist, stupid, or both.

It's just stupid and childish. 

[HoosierHoopster]

Semi-related, I still remember walking into 7th grade and being told we would never write in cursive again.

I was like, what? Why did I have to learn how to do it then?? Lol

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

42 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Semi-related, I still remember walking into 7th grade and being told we would never write in cursive again.

I was like, what? Why did I have to learn how to do it then?? Lol

My 3rd grade year, 02-03, we had to write in cursive for literally everything... Never had to use it again. 

[Stuhoo]

49 minutes ago, HoosierHoopster said:

Semi-related, I still remember walking into 7th grade and being told we would never write in cursive again.

I was like, what? Why did I have to learn how to do it then?? Lol

My side hustle as a wedding calligrapher says otherwise.

[RaceToTheTop]

11 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

My side hustle as a wedding calligrapher says otherwise.

Any time I take notes on anything I still use cursive.  Much quicker.

[RaceToTheTop]

Apparantley Chris Beard was given the option to resign and chose not to.  Probably going to examine his legal options to get paid.

However, from what I've heard he's not going to have a case.  He had a 'just clause' in his contract that stated he could be fired if he were charged with a felony -- not just if he was convicted.

[Tasmanian Devil]

3 hours ago, IUc2016 said:

 

Sad, racist, despicable human beings. 

What’s sad is that when something like this is said the first reaction of so many is that it IS racist.

[MikeRoberts]

2 hours ago, IUc2016 said:

Questioning whether an african american player can read is pretty obviously racist.

Doubt they make that comment if it were Trey Galloway or Miller Kopp

You missed the point about cursive. They don’t teach people cursive in schools anymore.