OT - "The best damn school in America"
So Purdue muppets aside, I think someone on the board yesterday jokingly (?) said it would take Baylor one day to have another "Baylor gonna Baylor" moment.
Who would have thought!
http://deadspin.com/baylors-kim-mulkey-knock-parents-concerned-about-se…
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February 26th, 2017 at 2:13 AM ^
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February 26th, 2017 at 3:24 AM ^
Ohio State? For different reasons, obviously.
February 26th, 2017 at 6:51 AM ^
with a southern fan base.
February 26th, 2017 at 8:54 AM ^
February 26th, 2017 at 12:27 PM ^
football aside, I'd nominate Indiana---the only state south of Mississippi
February 26th, 2017 at 10:31 AM ^
Good point, although I've always considered Ohio to be the South.
February 26th, 2017 at 11:05 AM ^
I've long considered anything south of Chicago as "the South". I know it's a skewed Michigander perspective, but I like it.
February 26th, 2017 at 11:22 AM ^
Generally true except on the Pacific coast and a couple small pockets. Not the worst generalization I've read on the internet.
February 26th, 2017 at 12:24 PM ^
February 26th, 2017 at 10:52 PM ^
Anything south of Moscow really.
February 26th, 2017 at 4:04 PM ^
Penn state.....Baylor......Same!!.
February 26th, 2017 at 7:55 AM ^
The south is twisted a certain way, so we should expect its schools to be, too. Check out "American Nations" or any similar book for some background.
February 26th, 2017 at 9:02 AM ^
February 26th, 2017 at 9:53 AM ^
or there's more pressure in town to not ruin the biggest thing in town (Penn State football, Baylor football, Florida State football, Ole Miss football, etc.)
February 26th, 2017 at 4:08 PM ^
You are correct sir. Also Nebraska under Osborne. Oklahoma under everyone.
February 26th, 2017 at 2:19 AM ^
February 26th, 2017 at 3:31 AM ^
I'm just assuming they cut her mic at the "Knock them in the face..." comment before she could follow it up with "...and have your way with them."
This country is several magnitudes dumber than I thought it was 5-10 years ago.
February 26th, 2017 at 7:20 AM ^
...than it was 5, 10, 20 or 100 years ago. What's different now is that every idiot has access to a national audience and an echo chamber willing to assist them.
February 26th, 2017 at 8:59 AM ^
February 26th, 2017 at 9:46 AM ^
...on your attention span and rate of change thoughts. Not so sure being smarter is the key to coping.
February 26th, 2017 at 10:05 AM ^
I never said the country was dumber, only that my perception of the country has changed.
February 26th, 2017 at 2:52 AM ^
I used to live in Dallas...and Waco is not a place you want to be...IMO. Really sad that they devalue these young women.
February 26th, 2017 at 10:39 AM ^
It's always bothered me that so many people from the "good" states are so quick to write off "the South" as completely irredeemable or like a foreign country. There are good people all over. There are good Americans in all the states. For instance the people in the South produce a lot of the food you eat, a lot of the energy that runs your life. They drive the trucks that bring your online shopping to the front door. When you reduce them all, you reduce yourself.
February 26th, 2017 at 2:54 AM ^
I don't think this comment is tone deaf or anything else like that. It should have been expected.
The person who gets paid because parents send their talented basketball playing daughters to her school needs to say something when those parents don't want to send their talented basketball playing daughters to her school.
February 26th, 2017 at 3:00 AM ^
She could have some, I don't know, courage maybe to use that powerful platform to speak out against that culture and pledge to foster positive change from within.
Silly of me to think that.
February 26th, 2017 at 3:09 AM ^
I figured she would have said something like that by now. Has she?
Honestly, I haven't been following the Baylor situation. I know that they had a system that their prominent athletes did pretty much whatever they wanted and got protected, and that it is all coming down around them now.
February 26th, 2017 at 4:04 AM ^
Is not relevant IMHO. She was one of the few people with power in the program that a) had a platform available at that moment in time to address a serious issue constructively and b) was previously and to my knowledge not caught up in the echo chamber that is Baylor's repeated denial of wrongdoing. By feigning assault on parents that question whether their child's future is in the safest possible hands for developing them into productive adults, well...
There's nothing wrong with admitting failure. If nobody admitted failure throughout human history, we'd still be drooling over ourselves in caves.
So I respectfully disagree that it wasn't tone deaf. I think it was incredibly tone deaf for a leader of women and a leader of the university at large to not, well, lead.
February 26th, 2017 at 4:27 AM ^
I'll retract my previous statement.
February 26th, 2017 at 4:46 AM ^
+1 to you sir (and not just because you agreed with me)
February 26th, 2017 at 5:23 AM ^
I had just put her comments in a vacuum, which was, of course she's going to say that, she's trying to get parents to let their daughters go play for her. Didn't factor in everything else and the whole punching parents in the face thing.
Vacuums suck.
February 26th, 2017 at 7:51 AM ^
when the spinach assassin comes after you?!
February 26th, 2017 at 10:13 AM ^
I feel this urge to create an avatar finally! I could never choose one before; I had to wait until it chose me.
February 26th, 2017 at 12:21 PM ^
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February 26th, 2017 at 2:02 PM ^
does that mean i can order one free assassination, kind of like a coupon?
also, nice addition of the loose spinach leaves in your picture. i can foresee a whole line of marketing promos with your picture and the spinach.
February 27th, 2017 at 4:22 AM ^
February 27th, 2017 at 5:46 AM ^
i'm sure we can work something out.
February 26th, 2017 at 3:41 PM ^
After listening to that skank talk for less than a minute I had enough. That is beyond denial. There is something inherently evil with these coaches and that institution and really that whole area. The accent alone is enough to make me vomit, but that women is disturbing and if another institution would hire that thing well hope they burn in flames also. I'm sorry but that just pisses me off. If I had a daugher and someone harmed them they would evaporate along with the enablers. Until that process was completed I would not be moving on Mulky.
February 26th, 2017 at 9:48 AM ^
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February 26th, 2017 at 7:50 AM ^
She said the scandal is over and she would send her daughter to the private Christian university, claiming the “problems we have at Baylor are no different than the problems at any other school in America.”
Not sure which universities that Coach Mulkey has actually visited, but I have a feeling virtually all of them would resent the implication that their issues are at a Baylor level of problematic.
February 26th, 2017 at 8:17 AM ^
She then doubled down in the post game interview. So between the pregame and postgame noboby from the university casually wandered over to tell her to cool her jets. So now I don't blame her as much because, right or wrong, she's just towing the company line.
February 26th, 2017 at 8:57 AM ^
February 26th, 2017 at 9:35 AM ^
Best take in a sexual assalt thread in quite some time.
I understand her motivation for saying it, but cmon man, are you kidding me? As an institution and for those still affiliated with this debacle, take your medicine/consequences and move on by trying to prevent anything similar both at your place, and anywhere else.
February 26th, 2017 at 9:00 AM ^
yeah, I dare this woman to go say that to one of the many parents who had their daughters be sexually assaulted and/or raped while they were on Baylor's campus. I'll bet it isn't the parents who get knocked in the face...
February 26th, 2017 at 9:09 AM ^
What schools or programs has this woman visited that make her believe that the problems at Baylor are no different than what is faced at any other program?
I understand the idea of standing up for your school, but she made herself look like a complete jackass. Whether it was intentional or not, she grossly underplayed the severity of what happened, and makes it sound like that it was no big deal. A culture of turning a blind eye to rape and covering it up is not some common epidemic in our country's collegiate athletic programs. That is very much a Baylor problem. And until I see that major steps have been taken to eradicate that culture, I wouldn't send either my son or my daughter there.
So I guess she'll have to knock me right in the face for that.