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(00:00):
One of my favorite lines from oneof my favorite boyhood movies, The Bad
News Bears, was that seen afterthe Bears were destroyed in their first game,
one of the kids, Ahmed AbdulRaheem, a black Muslim boy loves
baseball. Hank Aaron is his idol, took the loss so hard he stripped
off his whole uniform and climbed upa tree and sulked. Coach Morris Buttermaker,
(00:22):
played by Walter Mathau, followed himup the tree and explained how even
the greats have bad games, towhich Ahmed's skeptical reply came back packed with
a reference to Buttermaker's skin color thatleft coach with a cigar between his lips.
With few options, he chose thisone. Let's not bring race into
this, Ahmad. We got enoughproblems as it is. It was a
(00:46):
fair appraisal of the situation, whichalso leads me to wonder why, after
the biggest victory in Colorado football sincethe miracle in Michigan thirty years ago,
we got this from jubilant coach DionSanders. When you see a confident man
sitting up here, talking his talk, walking his walk, coaching seventy five
percent African America's in the locker room. That's kind of threatening. Oh they
(01:08):
don't like that, But guess what, We're gonna consistently do what we do
this time. The college football worldwas left thinking, why bring race into
this prime? The world loves you. The whole episode made it seem like
grievance peddling sounded like he had asolution in search of a problem. He
and his quite capable staff had justbested a national title game finalist on its
(01:29):
home field with a masterful offensive gameplan executed with near flawless precision. How
he assembled a cohesive, functioning teamof sixty five new players with so few
organized practices and meetings reflects scouting,organizational, and coaching genius. But it
was about none of that. Itwas about how a black coach and a
(01:51):
bunch of black players got even forwhat and with whom. I consume sports
media every day, Not once sincehe was introduced as head coach last December,
have I read one opinion piece orone blog post or heard a podcast
about how Dion Sanders and Colorado willfail because he and they are black.
(02:14):
There were a speculation might not worklike he's never coached in a Power five
league before all of the new playerswill take time to gel key injuries,
strength of schedule. SeeU has beenso bereft a success for most to twenty
five years. The guys literally haveno idea how to win, and despite
the victory over TCU, some ofthat may still happen, might still only
(02:36):
win three or four games, butafter a one and eleven season, that
is massive improvement. Where in thereis the race factor. He made it
sound like the secret is finally out. Black guys can coach, Sorry Prime,
old news. A lot of blackcoaches have more than one Power five
win. Tyrone Willingham and David Shawwon Rose Bowls at Stanford, James Franklin's
(02:59):
last two games at Vanderbilt, woneighteen games at Penn State. He has
them in the top ten. BobbyWilliams won two bowl games at Michigan State,
and all of these guys after TonyDungee won a Super Bowl in the
NFL. But Sanders implies he's therows of Parks of football coaching, scolding
anybody who might have wondered if Dionto Boulder would work out. Hey Prime
(03:21):
comes with the territory, ask PhilBankston if following Lombardi Ginn dub doubters or
Tom Osborne circ In nineteen seventy three, or Frank Solis twenty five years later,
any new hire. Instead, hewent about fingering members of the media
games end, badgering them about whetherthey believed Ed Werner of ESPN, who
(03:42):
covered the Cowboys when Sanders played there, was singled out, do you believe
that? Huh? Oh no,no, no, I read through that
bould junk you wrote that. Iread through that, I spt it through
all that. Oh no, comeon, do you believe? You don't
believe? You just answered it?You don't believe? Next question A.
(04:04):
Werner's question was perfect believe what heasked, since when is it his job
to believe anything other than what hediscovers and then sees Sanders scoffs at such
logic, clearly now establishing an USversus them mentality which has a long history
of ending in division. It onlyworks so long as you win. But
(04:27):
when you stop winning, the restof us have. As Sanders declared after
the victory, kept the receipts
One of my favorite lines from oneof my favorite boyhood movies, The Bad
News Bears, was that seen afterthe Bears were destroyed in their first game,
one of the kids, Ahmed AbdulRaheem, a black Muslim boy loves
baseball. Hank Aaron is his idol, took the loss so hard he stripped
off his whole uniform and climbed upa tree and sulked. Coach Morris Buttermaker,
(00:22):
played by Walter Mathau, followed himup the tree and explained how even
the greats have bad games, towhich Ahmed's skeptical reply came back packed with
a reference to Buttermaker's skin color thatleft coach with a cigar between his lips.
With few options, he chose thisone. Let's not bring race into
this, Ahmad. We got enoughproblems as it is. It was a
(00:46):
fair appraisal of the situation, whichalso leads me to wonder why, after
the biggest victory in Colorado football sincethe miracle in Michigan thirty years ago,
we got this from jubilant coach DionSanders. When you see a confident man
sitting up here, talking his talk, walking his walk, coaching seventy five
percent African America's in the locker room. That's kind of threatening. Oh they
(01:08):
don't like that, But guess what, We're gonna consistently do what we do
this time. The college football worldwas left thinking, why bring race into
this prime? The world loves you. The whole episode made it seem like
grievance peddling sounded like he had asolution in search of a problem. He
and his quite capable staff had justbested a national title game finalist on its
(01:29):
home field with a masterful offensive gameplan executed with near flawless precision. How
he assembled a cohesive, functioning teamof sixty five new players with so few
organized practices and meetings reflects scouting,organizational, and coaching genius. But it
was about none of that. Itwas about how a black coach and a
(01:51):
bunch of black players got even forwhat and with whom. I consume sports
media every day, Not once sincehe was introduced as head coach last December,
have I read one opinion piece orone blog post or heard a podcast
about how Dion Sanders and Colorado willfail because he and they are black.
(02:14):
There were a speculation might not worklike he's never coached in a Power five
league before all of the new playerswill take time to gel key injuries,
strength of schedule. SeeU has beenso bereft a success for most to twenty
five years. The guys literally haveno idea how to win, and despite
the victory over TCU, some ofthat may still happen, might still only
(02:36):
win three or four games, butafter a one and eleven season, that
is massive improvement. Where in thereis the race factor. He made it
sound like the secret is finally out. Black guys can coach, Sorry Prime,
old news. A lot of blackcoaches have more than one Power five
win. Tyrone Willingham and David Shawwon Rose Bowls at Stanford, James Franklin's
(02:59):
last two games at Vanderbilt, woneighteen games at Penn State. He has
them in the top ten. BobbyWilliams won two bowl games at Michigan State,
and all of these guys after TonyDungee won a Super Bowl in the
NFL. But Sanders implies he's therows of Parks of football coaching, scolding
anybody who might have wondered if Dionto Boulder would work out. Hey Prime
(03:21):
comes with the territory, ask PhilBankston if following Lombardi Ginn dub doubters or
Tom Osborne circ In nineteen seventy three, or Frank Solis twenty five years later,
any new hire. Instead, hewent about fingering members of the media
games end, badgering them about whetherthey believed Ed Werner of ESPN, who
(03:42):
covered the Cowboys when Sanders played there, was singled out, do you believe
that? Huh? Oh no,no, no, I read through that
bould junk you wrote that. Iread through that, I spt it through
all that. Oh no, comeon, do you believe? You don't
believe? You just answered it?You don't believe? Next question A.
(04:04):
Werner's question was perfect believe what heasked, since when is it his job
to believe anything other than what hediscovers and then sees Sanders scoffs at such
logic, clearly now establishing an USversus them mentality which has a long history
of ending in division. It onlyworks so long as you win. But
(04:27):
when you stop winning, the restof us have. As Sanders declared after
the victory, kept the receipts
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