Textbook case of "lack of institutional control"

[ElJefe]

Another Victim at Colorado (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/rick_reilly/02/16/hnida/index.html?cnn=yes)

[Jeff]

Impromptu press conference right after the Avs game. Barnett's already been reprimanded by CU's president, dunno what's to come but it ain't good up there. And I don't give a F what happens to Barnett. Something needs to be done up in Boulder, and now.

[Jeff]

Administrative leave while the investigations continue, seems like the "she's a girl and she was terrible" comment and another police report were the final straws that triggered this. First things first, let's hope the alleged victims (I say alleged since none of this has gone to court yet and no one has been found gulity) get any and all of the help they need to get through this.

[skipshady]

Assuming the allegations are true (and I'm from the Where There's Smoke school of thought), then Barnett has to be fired regardless of the comment. Whether he turned a blind eye or he was truly ignorant of what was going on, it is the ultimate failure in running a program.

From ESPN Page 2's Daily Quickie (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/quickie)
Two Words For You:
TOTAL.__BUFFOON.

Gary Barnett gave me the best sports moment of my life as a fan: Northwestern's Rose Bowl run in 1995. Cripes, I even wrote about him for Page 2's "My Hero" package last year. I'm embarrassed by that this morning.

It's not even a "Say it ain't so!" moment, like it is for other fans who become appalled at their one-time heroes. Throughout this scandal, he's revealed nothing but a self-serving, double-dealing side that I realize truly reflects who he is.

But I renounce him now: For the shoddy state of his football program (but it's not as if his time at NU was taint-free)...

For his inexcusable, Hall-of-Fame insensitive and likely job-obliterating comments about former player and alleged rape victim Katie Hnida...

And, only the latest, as he pondered his removal as coach yesterday, a classic non-apology apology over those comments, best left to his own words:

"I sincerely regret that yesterday a portion of my remarks were either misinterpreted or taken out of context, and I apologize for answering that question in a manner where I must have come across as insensitive..."

What?! Barnett certainly isn't worthy of his job anymore, and he sure as hell isn't worthy of anyone's admiration.

[whirlwind]

Any word if these allegations are limited to the Barnett years, or if they reach back to beforehand? I have a hard time believing Bill McCartney, ex- U of M and current Promise Keeper / highly religious guy, would have put up with these things...

...or maybe that's just me looking at the world through maize-colored glasses...

[skipshady]

Well...
McCartney actually had a reputation for running a loose ship, and I'm trying to find the figures right now, but I believe there were over 30 players with criminal records during their national championship season in 1990.

http://www.sportscurmudgeon.com/recent/sc755.html
"And Colorado football has a very checkered history �| less publicized maybe than the gangster image put on Miami or the bad boys at FSU that earned them the nickname, Criminoles. So as you read more apologias regarding Colorado, use these events as guideposts to what ought to happen to that program because these are the ones I can dredge from memory. Imagine if a historian went to a library to look carefully:
Back in the 1980's under Bill McCartney there were a couple of dozen football players arrested for a wide range of felonious behaviors. Local urban legend holds that the police had a Colorado football media guide and used it as an impromptu mug book for victims to scan.

McCartney's prize pupil was a gentleman named Rae Carruth. He is now doing a long sentence in a North Carolina prison for conspiring to murder his girlfriend."

and

http://www.chicagosuntimes.com/output/couch/cst-spt-greg05.html
"One problem with firing Barnett: Another woman alleged she was raped at one of these sex parties at Colorado in 1997. Rick Neuheisel was the coach then. Before that, when Bill McCartney was Colorado's coach, there were rumors about a recruit being promised sex."