And With This, Barking Carnival Is Off Our RSS Feed

The original BC link is broken or down. I did get a chance to read it before this and wow…just piss poor judgment on their part. Assuming their next few posts will be done in blackface.

And my thoughts on Lyles after listening yesterday was that he seems like a guy who wanted to be involved in football, but didn’t have a clear path in so he found what he could. He doesn’t seem like a bad (or stupid) guy at all. Hell, he’s working as a stocker at a grocery store/liquor store/bakery while training guys in the morning.

Good work calling it out OPS

Deletes just-written Al Jolson tribute to Indiana athletics

As it is, he’s a “booster”.

I’m not sure if that’s racism or just laziness. I lean towards thinking the latter, but you never know.

because the NCAA is allowing it. Schools should be doing their own scouting and recruiting. Kids can send a video tape or DVD or electronic file of a video to any school they please. Then, schools need to evaluate and go forward.

Allowing a place like Oregon (who I consider to be slightly dirty, and may someday be proven officially dirty), to pay dozens of thousands of dollars, even for information about high school athletes, is retarded.

A system like what is currently in place only favors the big schools anyway, because how many mid-sized or small schools can pay that kind of money for scouting services? I think it would be better for college football if there were some kids who were a bit off-the-radar, and ended up going to a college that actually did the appropriate legwork to find those kids.

Finally, the interview with Lyles may not make him seem guilty or dirty, but he knows he is a middle-man. Certified high school coaches should be doing what he is doing. But for some reason, somebody thinks it’s better to have a bunch of free-lancing grocery store clerks running around, being “advisors” to 17 and 18 year-old kids, and taking cash from anybody that can afford to give it to them.

I’d like to know if (and how much money) that Iowa, UNI, and ISU pay “scouting services” each year. I’d also like to know the name of those scouting services, and the person at that service that actually cashes the check.

For what it’s worth, Lyles truly does believe that the University of Texas is out to get him. Cue up 35:14 in this interview on a Houston radio station. He accuses UT of feeding the media the story that Oregon paid him $25,000 to land Seastrunk. He then says that Texas pays high school coaches to ensure recruits go to Austin and claims that his relationships with Texas broke down “when I didn’t want to steer kids their way.” Lyles describes UT as having a “personal vendetta” against him.

Texas and its fans are royally pissed because Lyles has been helping Texas kids find their way to schools outside the state. UT is used to having the first pick among the state’s recruits (or at least sharing it with Oklahoma), and this guy has been undermining that structure. The name “Will Lyles” has become a berserk button among Longhorns fans who follow recruiting, and anything can happen when he’s brought up. Anything.

As like a lot of football fans, I really don’t get interested until its um, actually football season (I know, shame on me), but I’m fully in favor of severing ties with a site that confuses over the top racism with humor. That’s also pretty consistent with you guys’ policy with racist comments in the threads/on BHGP in general as well.

because I think the joke there is that McRibs are only available at certain times.

The “selling gold teeth” and “collection plate” bits were where it got real bad. Because, even if they weren’t making fun of the guy’s race, then their making fun of him because he is poor, which is still pretty mean.

I don’t read the original post the same way that Adam and Bomani do. Whatever its merits as a piece of satire, I just don’t see it as having anything to do with Lyle’s race. It’s a satire of who he is, and if he were a white hustler I suspect the piece would read pretty much the same. I read the McRib joke the same as WaterlooChazz, above. I can’t speak for the authors, but I thought it was a play on its seasonal availability, not a jab at black people and/or their tastes.

Was the original post a mistake to publish, given how easily it could be (and now has been) misinterpreted as being racist? Given how offended a number of people are, perhaps so. But I thought Scipio’s defense was valid and thoughtful, at the very least as an explanation of what was intended — what is intended.

It’s obviously regrettable that they’ve offended a number of people, but I’m not sure the outrage isn’t a bit misplaced. I think Scipio opened an opportunity for a meaningful dialogue on an important topic, and this post doesn’t really engage that dialogue. It simply concludes that those guys are racist, and obviously so. I don’t think that’s right.

I can’t agree with the notion that he is a charming harmless “advisor” “reasonable person”. I mean, he admittingly was steering recruits to places that were paying him. He is obviously in the game of pay for play and he knows it. Texas probably would have got Seastrunk if it wasn’t for him so I would be pissed too. The article seemed racist though, and anytime you step into that gray area, whether you mean it or not, bad things happen.

is sexism
and there is no place in my world for either of them
in an unrelated note
a budy of mine asked me if i wanted to contribute in the Jim Tressel defense fund
I honestly dont know if he was joking
but it is intersting he no long is paying the 250k “fine” gordy said he would pay
and is getting 52k to retire

But I will say this. Hyper-sensitivity to racism is just as bad as racism itself, firstly. And, secondly, this all happened in the blogosphere, which makes it reality fringe.

10 times in a one hour period you will be cured of any and all racist viewpoints, and be a better dancer.

posted a pretty racist line from a movie on her facebook. I talked with her about it, got her side of it. She stated that the line was from a comedy that she and her friends had watched at a party. This particular line was about Jewish people. When I questioned her further why she thought it was ok to post something like that on Facebook, she mentioned that one of her friends, who is Jewish, jokes about being Jewish all the time with my daughter. I had to point out that just because your friend jokes with you about racial issues in private, doesn’t make it right to post something about a race in public, where people, who are not priviledged to inside and private jokes, will interpret what is posted on Facebook as you, I was speaking to my daughter, being racist. I know I had to learn that lesson several years back myself. Jokes can be fine within an intimate setting between you and your friend. But broadcast to the general public, especially when they don’t know you or the situation, is very wrong. The only way to defeat racism, is to talk about the issues and teach our children to think about the message they are sending to the audience that could hear it.

and realizes that Voltaire took the time to actually study the history and context of both sides of the injustices before composing his treatise, then you’ll all feel a little more tolerant towards BC and Recruitocosm. I feel equally confident that once you’ve realized that Will Lyles is, indeed, a piece of crap and it has nothing to do with his skin color and everything to do with his pattern of behavior which you’ll no doubt find out more about when you’re done casting stones in the wrong direction, you’ll probably realize that you gave him a bit too much credit for his statements. Of course he sounds like a reasonable guy NOW! He’s in damage control mode and on his best behavior because he has been called out for his dirty doings!

Yes, he is playing the victim card. No single race has a monopoly on that. It’s just easier to do when you can play the race card next.

(Yes, I’m from the south- Texas to be exact. No, I don’t condone racism. It’s one of the few things that irks me more than self-righteousness.)