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draggonlaadySo I guess I'm behind the times on this, and it's been an issue for a month or so, but I'm throwing this up here anyway just for the statement that the coach made last week.
Newsweek, March 1, 2004
"It was obvious Katie was not very good. She was awful. You know what guys do? They respect your ability ... Katie was not only a girl, she was terrible." U of Colorado coach Gary Barnett, criticizing former Buffaloes football player Katie Hnida's placekicking ability while discussing her allegation that she had been raped by a teammate.
As president of the University of Colorado, Elizabeth Hoffman hoped to build the school's reputation as a center for science and technology. Now she's just hoping to preserve the school's reputation, period. With the football team embroiled in an explosive rape-and-sex scandal, damage control has become a full-time job. Allegations that the football team used sex and alcohol to help recruit top high-school players first surfaced last month, in connection with a 2002 lawsuit by a female student who claimed she was raped by two recruits. Since then, rape allegations by six other women against players have come to light. It wasn't until coach Gary Barnett put his foot in his mouth last week—responding to rape allegations by a former female placekicker for the team by calling her an "awful" player—that Hoffman took action. "Rather than apologize, he tried to explain himself," Hoffman told NEWSWEEK. "I felt he just didn't get it." Hoffman suspended Barnett until April 30, when an independent commission is set to release the result of its investigation into the allegations.
—Paul Tolme
© 2004 Newsweek, Inc.
Wow. Guess that's a prime demonstration of the fact that people still say stupid shit. As if the girl deserves to be raped because she can't kick the ball as hard as a guy?
And some other quotes...apparently this wasn't just a one time cock-up on Barnett's part...
From February...
"None of the players wanted her on the team," Barnett remembers. "Basically we were doing her a favor."
"At Colorado they're majoring in b.s. The denials have piled up like cordwood. You show me a coach who maintains he's unaware of recruiting parties featuring paid strippers, of four alleged rapes, of sexual harassment claims by one of his players against other players, and I'll show you a coach who is hell-bent on not knowing."
Rick Reilly
Sports Illustrated, February 23, 2004
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/rick_reilly/02/16/hnida/
Newsweek, March 1, 2004
"It was obvious Katie was not very good. She was awful. You know what guys do? They respect your ability ... Katie was not only a girl, she was terrible." U of Colorado coach Gary Barnett, criticizing former Buffaloes football player Katie Hnida's placekicking ability while discussing her allegation that she had been raped by a teammate.
As president of the University of Colorado, Elizabeth Hoffman hoped to build the school's reputation as a center for science and technology. Now she's just hoping to preserve the school's reputation, period. With the football team embroiled in an explosive rape-and-sex scandal, damage control has become a full-time job. Allegations that the football team used sex and alcohol to help recruit top high-school players first surfaced last month, in connection with a 2002 lawsuit by a female student who claimed she was raped by two recruits. Since then, rape allegations by six other women against players have come to light. It wasn't until coach Gary Barnett put his foot in his mouth last week—responding to rape allegations by a former female placekicker for the team by calling her an "awful" player—that Hoffman took action. "Rather than apologize, he tried to explain himself," Hoffman told NEWSWEEK. "I felt he just didn't get it." Hoffman suspended Barnett until April 30, when an independent commission is set to release the result of its investigation into the allegations.
—Paul Tolme
© 2004 Newsweek, Inc.
Wow. Guess that's a prime demonstration of the fact that people still say stupid shit. As if the girl deserves to be raped because she can't kick the ball as hard as a guy?
And some other quotes...apparently this wasn't just a one time cock-up on Barnett's part...
From February...
"None of the players wanted her on the team," Barnett remembers. "Basically we were doing her a favor."
"At Colorado they're majoring in b.s. The denials have piled up like cordwood. You show me a coach who maintains he's unaware of recruiting parties featuring paid strippers, of four alleged rapes, of sexual harassment claims by one of his players against other players, and I'll show you a coach who is hell-bent on not knowing."
Rick Reilly
Sports Illustrated, February 23, 2004
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/rick_reilly/02/16/hnida/
