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Posted by Doperbo on November 27th, 2007 under Football

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.”

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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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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. He doesn’t say ‘most definitely.’

  4. 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.

  5. Woody Bombay said:

    November 27th, 2007 at 12:23 pm

    aTm’s non-athlete African American community is protesting, too. He’ll be outside Kyle Field with a sign.

  6. cheap…

    I giggled though.

  7. Floyd should know Mike Singletary doesn’t have either the time or energy to interview for every freaking available job out there.

  8. How was he to know? No black people live in Nebraska.

  9. “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?

  10. The USA Today story doesn’t include the word “Cracker” in his quote.

  11. Facebook User said:

    November 27th, 2007 at 1:10 pm

    Eyes - The important question is how many of those kids are or have ever been black kids?

  12. 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.

  13. “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.

  14. 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.

  15. He doesn’t smoke Kool menthols.

  16. He drinks egg nog.

  17. He’s never had Hennesy.

  18. I wonder what the response would have been had they hired Ron Rivera.

  19. Ron Rivera doesn’t like to get up early, but he has to so he does it real slow.

  20. He doesn’t drink grape soda or have a crown air freshener in the back of his car.

  21. He enjoys a quiet visit to the movie theatre.

  22. He should have hired Leon Black.

  23. hayden_horn said:

    November 27th, 2007 at 2:21 pm

    “The USA Today story doesn’t include the word “Cracker” in his quote.”

    no shit?

  24. The original quote was “White Boy Establishment Cracker.” Doperbo trimmed it to make it less inflammatory.

  25. Then he said “Bill Byrne doesn’t care about black people.”

    You shoulda seen the look on Mike Myers’ face.

  26. SizzleChest said:

    November 27th, 2007 at 3:30 pm

    Ron Rivera? What if they had hired an octoroon? Say a descendent of Homer Plessy?

  27. Minnesotahorn said:

    November 27th, 2007 at 4:37 pm

    Sought for comment AJ Abrams stated that he found the entire kerfuffle quite droll.

  28. I was offended that Greg Davis wasn’t interviewed for the position !

  29. This is an outrage. I should have been hired.

  30. How does Gomer get around the state requirement that the job has to be posted for ten days?

  31. Mr. Know it All said:

    November 28th, 2007 at 6:49 am

    “Emergency” for recruiting

  32. The 10 day rule gets ignored all the time by the state and counties.

  33. LegalKnievel said:

    November 28th, 2007 at 8:25 am

    He’s never stood at the edge of a city pool looking skeptically at the water.

  34. 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.”

  35. Additionally, he has no earthly idea what purple drank is and eats too much mayo.

  36. it is true however that Mike “mayonaisse” Sherman is a complete fuck lion.

  37. 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!

  38. -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”

  39. Likes to be called General Sherman.

    Hates Atlanta.

  40. 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!!!

  41. “(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.

  42. 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.

  43. Houston Titan said:

    November 29th, 2007 at 4:14 pm

    -Thinks Melissa Ford could stand to lose a few pounds.

    -Says bi-racial people are “just as white as they are black.

  44. - shops at Orvis

    - has never been to an NBA game

    - thinks Wayne Brady is the shit

  45. How can a guy maintain recruiting momentum when he isn’t going to start working until January?

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