Byrne offends someone other than season ticket holders.
by Doperbo on Nov 27, 2007 1:21 PM CST
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Not everyone is happy with the hire of public narcoleptic Mike Sherman in Aggieland.
From USA Today:
Texas A&M hired former Green Bay Packers coach Mike Sherman as its football coach Monday, but the move did not meet with approval from the executive director of the Black Coaches & Administrators (BCA). Aggies athletics director Bill Byrne said Monday that Sherman, who is white, was the only candidate interviewed. That, BCA executive director Floyd Keith said, is a problem.
"I'm disappointed in that process," Keith said Monday of Texas A&M's search to replace Dennis Franchione. "I'm disappointed in him (Byrne) because it's not like he doesn't know. Cracker. It's just a blatant disregard for … doing it the right way. I hope student-athletes and other coaches and people of color take notice of that."
Byrne responded that race was not an issue. He maintains that an immediate hire was needed in order to maintain recruiting momentum, and Sherman was deemed a good fit since he will not take over in any meaningful way until the end of the Houston Texan's season several months from now. Byrne also pointed out that he had several black friends, and thinks Grambling's band is awesome.
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If he would have just picked up the phone when Lovie Smith, Tony Dungy or Mike Tomlin called to inquire about the head coaching job, then he wouldn’t have this problem.
by kchorn04 on Nov 27, 2007 1:52 PM CST reply actions
The BCA wouldn’t have complained were it a more soulful white hire like Justin Timberlake or Bill Clinton. They had to speak out because Mike Sherman is offensively, blindingly white.
Among their list of grievances:
He says things like,“Jimbo here has one hell of a short game, dont ya big fella? Ha ho ha!”
He enjoys lacrosse.
He’s not scared of dogs at all.
He loves Vermont.
He went to a Phish concert once.
He likes wearing a yachtsman’s cap.
He has never answered a phone with,“Who dis?”
He once christened a sloop.
He enjoys weather trivia.
by Scipio Tex on Nov 27, 2007 2:00 PM CST reply actions
So it’s LESS offensive to interview a black candidate you have no intention of hiring?
Oh well, we will hire Sumlin (fingers crossed) and this will be a moot point.
by South '06 on Nov 27, 2007 2:22 PM CST reply actions
aTm’s non-athlete African American community is protesting, too. He’ll be outside Kyle Field with a sign.
by Woody Bombay on Nov 27, 2007 2:23 PM CST reply actions
Floyd should know Mike Singletary doesn’t have either the time or energy to interview for every freaking available job out there.
by McLovin on Nov 27, 2007 2:26 PM CST reply actions
How was he to know? No black people live in Nebraska.
by BiggUggly on Nov 27, 2007 2:29 PM CST reply actions
“He maintains that an immediate hire was needed in order to maintain recruiting momentum”
Wait. Don’t the Ags have something like 22 kids already verbally committed? I mean, there’s not a hell of a lot of recruiting left to do at this point, is there?
by EyesOfTX on Nov 27, 2007 3:01 PM CST reply actions
The USA Today story doesn’t include the word “Cracker” in his quote.
by MisterJDF on Nov 27, 2007 3:10 PM CST reply actions
Eyes – The important question is how many of those kids are or have ever been black kids?
by Sailor Ripley on Nov 27, 2007 3:10 PM CST reply actions
Yeah, yeah, most definitely, most definitely. I would like to thank god, most definitely. And my moms and gramama, most definitely. yeah, yeah, most definitely.
by Lazlo Hollyfeld on Nov 27, 2007 3:16 PM CST reply actions
“Wait. Don’t the Ags have something like 22 kids already verbally committed? I mean, there’s not a hell of a lot of recruiting left to do at this point, is there?”
There’s a little wavering now due to the change. We lost a guy to OU this morning. I know Sherman called some of the guys yesterday afternoon (Kapron, Dorman, etc.) to make sure they stayed on board, though.
by South '06 on Nov 27, 2007 3:23 PM CST reply actions
Oh, and add to that list:
He can’t understand a fucking word Jamaal Charles says either.
I know, I know… overdone. But, still funny.
by South '06 on Nov 27, 2007 3:25 PM CST reply actions
I wonder what the response would have been had they hired Ron Rivera.
by BRAGGonUT on Nov 27, 2007 3:45 PM CST reply actions
Ron Rivera doesn’t like to get up early, but he has to so he does it real slow.
by HenryJames on Nov 27, 2007 3:46 PM CST reply actions
He doesn’t drink grape soda or have a crown air freshener in the back of his car.
by Lazlo Hollyfeld on Nov 27, 2007 4:06 PM CST reply actions
“The USA Today story doesn’t include the word "Cracker" in his quote.”
no shit?
by hayden_horn on Nov 27, 2007 4:21 PM CST reply actions
The original quote was “White Boy Establishment Cracker.” Doperbo trimmed it to make it less inflammatory.
by Scipio Tex on Nov 27, 2007 4:32 PM CST reply actions
Then he said “Bill Byrne doesn’t care about black people.”
You shoulda seen the look on Mike Myers’ face.
by South '06 on Nov 27, 2007 4:53 PM CST reply actions
Ron Rivera? What if they had hired an octoroon? Say a descendent of Homer Plessy?
by SizzleChest on Nov 27, 2007 5:30 PM CST reply actions
Sought for comment AJ Abrams stated that he found the entire kerfuffle quite droll.
by Minnesotahorn on Nov 27, 2007 6:37 PM CST reply actions
I was offended that Greg Davis wasn’t interviewed for the position !
by tx 3 putt on Nov 27, 2007 6:53 PM CST reply actions
This is an outrage. I should have been hired.
by Kanye West on Nov 27, 2007 10:16 PM CST reply actions
How does Gomer get around the state requirement that the job has to be posted for ten days?
by DBH on Nov 27, 2007 11:11 PM CST reply actions
The 10 day rule gets ignored all the time by the state and counties.
by kevwun on Nov 28, 2007 10:11 AM CST reply actions
He’s never stood at the edge of a city pool looking skeptically at the water.
by LegalKnievel on Nov 28, 2007 10:25 AM CST reply actions
When he plays permanent QB in the family two-below games, he’s described by onlookers as a “field general” with a “good head for the game,” rather than an “athlete.”
by goofybevo on Nov 28, 2007 11:31 AM CST reply actions
Additionally, he has no earthly idea what purple drank is and eats too much mayo.
by Redfoot on Nov 28, 2007 11:42 AM CST reply actions
it is true however that Mike “mayonaisse” Sherman is a complete fuck lion.
by echeese III on Nov 28, 2007 12:42 PM CST reply actions
No blacks in Nebraska?! Apparently you’ve never been to North Omaha. But he ain’t no Cracker, I seen him in North O drinking 40’s and bummin squares off the brothers. He had some down time and wanted to hang. SSHE-IT!
by Sarge_n_NE on Nov 28, 2007 12:43 PM CST reply actions
-He never got it crunk like me.
-He don’t know ’bout sauces.
-He don’t know ‘bout hundred spoke Gold D’s.
-He probably reads Tom Clancy.
-He knows his dad.
-He don’t mind the cold.
-Ain’t never had a fuck lion.
-Takes a whole new meaning to “raise the roof”
-Ain’t got no Alize in his cup.
-Probably says stuff like, “Cotton-pickin’” and “Gosh Darnit.”
-Loves “Mama’s Family”
by B.J. Symons on Nov 28, 2007 12:47 PM CST reply actions
Likes to be called General Sherman.
Hates Atlanta.
by Vasherized on Nov 28, 2007 1:54 PM CST reply actions
More greivances:
- he’s voting for Romney
- ain’t got no Fi’ty Cent on his iPod (Mack in da hizzy!)
- doesn’t say “‘know what I’m sayin’” after every sentence.
- when his players says “‘know what I’m sayin’”, he doesn’t.
- never seen House of Payne
- thinks Clarence Thomas is a credit to his race
(p.s. – welcome my first post — just got banned for a week at HF.com (under another alias), and I don’t think I’ll go back!!!
by Laces Out on Nov 28, 2007 9:16 PM CST reply actions
“(p.s. – welcome my first post — just got banned for a week at HF.com (under another alias), and I don’t think I’ll go back!!!”
seriously, you’ll need a degree in Lit to get by over here … which beats the mundane.
by Hollisdude on Nov 28, 2007 9:50 PM CST reply actions
Degree in Lit? No problemo. I look forward to internalizing and “owning” some fascinating deconstructions of the paternalistic paradigms found in our (not yet) dead white male coaching staff’s game plans.
by Laces Out on Nov 28, 2007 10:07 PM CST reply actions
-Thinks Melissa Ford could stand to lose a few pounds.
-Says bi-racial people are "just as white as they are black.
by Houston Titan on Nov 29, 2007 6:14 PM CST reply actions
- shops at Orvis
- has never been to an NBA game
- thinks Wayne Brady is the shit
by Laces Out on Nov 29, 2007 7:58 PM CST reply actions
How can a guy maintain recruiting momentum when he isn’t going to start working until January?
by jimmyjazz on Nov 30, 2007 1:09 AM CST reply actions
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