George O’Leary is alleged to have said this:
The suit alleges that O’Leary used a derogatory word for African-Americans and called the NFL “one big ‘Ru-Ru’ tribe.” The suit also alleges O’Leary once advised coaches to check African-American players “to make sure their gums are blue, because they are bigger, faster and stronger than (African-American players) with red gums.”
Two questions come to mind here. One, is there an automatic annual line item in the UCF athletic budget to cover O’Leary litigation expenses? And, second, how does Central Florida manage to sign any recruits?
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Not an O’Leary fan, but have a hard time believing this.
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Not an O’Leary fan and believe every damn word.
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Ditto
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Alleged, right. Todd Gurley allegedly attacked someone downtown Saturday night, too.
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Makes Jimmy the Greek proud…
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You can sue someone for gross language? We’re all doomed.
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No. He is suing for wrongful termination from his job.
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O’Leary is such a credible guy..
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With the exception of resume building O’Leary has always seemed to me to be a pretty smart guy…if he actually said this stupid shit, then him being a smart guy was an optical illusion.
That kind of attitude is hard to cover up over time and as savy as kids are today you’d think he would have a hard time recruiting.
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That language is something I haven’t heard since I was a kid — 1950s Jim Crow language. Stupid and disgusting.
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“That language is something I haven’t heard since I was a kid”
You should visit Florida more often
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+1. I hear stupid sh!t like that all the damn time.
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When he was at Tech some kids mom sued because he made her son cry talking ugly or something to that effect. I can’t remember the specifics but there was always something sketchy about that guy. Aside from the fact he coached at Tech.
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I can’t stand O’Leary. But this is nuts. I’m skeptical of anyone suing for wrongful termination who conveniently brings up inflammatory statements the boss made.
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“The suit alleges that O’Leary “created a work environment that was permeated by bullying, threatening behavior, and repeated discriminatory epithets by O’Leary,” including calling Ferraro “a ‘Guinea.’ ”
Why would a Mick hire an Italian in the first places?
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Or anyone from Guinea?
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Or someone from New Guinea?
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You two keep this up and you’re going to draw Athens Homerdawg out of the woodwork to tell us about the time he pulled duty in Kissidougou back when it was an Ebola-free zone
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/09/world/africa/100000003047971.embedded.html?_r=0
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And there’s the fact that he, you know, screamed curses at a kid while he was literally dying on the ground after practice a few years back, but I guess it was all good in the neighborhood for UCF once he won the conference.
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+1,000,000. The guy is a douchebag. What’s particularly pitiful is that he and UCF got off on appral from a huge verdict in the case described by Doug in the post above on “governmental immunity” grounds.
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This seems totally fabricated.
George O’Leary has a PhD in Cultural Studies from Harvard. Plus the spent 5 years in Burkina Faso with the Peace Corps. He would never say such inflammatory things.
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Read Mandingo in my teens….and for a white kid in Sowega, it had to be secretive. The interracial subject would help solve Leach’s concerns about perpetuatin’. I don’t remember the “Ru-Ru Tribe” , but what the hell, if I remember correctly, it was set in the NOLA area so anything is possible.
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By the way, the blue gum, red-gum thing is used by country folks to differentiate between hound dogs with the blue-gum being the bestest.
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Yes, my beloved bloodhound, Dutchess, was the bestest. May she rest in peace.
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Thanks for clarifying. I was curious about that comment but didn’t want to ask so as to not come across like a complete idiot.
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Ferraro had coached for O’Leary at Gt for 2 yrs. Did it bother him then or did O’L just start after he got to CF.
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Don’t worry. If it hadda happened, the AJC would still be opining about it.
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O’Leary is a dinosaur. He is a tough, mean SOB but he is not stupid. I’m sure he yells at his players and staff. He fired the guy and we all know that a hostile work environment for a male is a hard road to prove. Now if he is African-American it becomes easier but until there is a third party who comes forward and says he either heard something or he was treated that way, I unlike the press will give him the benefit of the doubt. The player dying was a tragedy but the school used the defense it had by law to reduce the verdict. If my child had a health issue that might kill him, as I believe the player had I would have not let him play. It’s a tough situation and I’m sure the school will accept his resignation. I live near Orlando and he has hinted that he might retire even before this came up.
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Why would any head coach making $1M plus per year ever retire unless they were forced out?
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