What a day for Quotes - looks like DeBerry is toast

[Favpack]

Wow - what a day for quotes.

Sheryl Swoopes announces she's gay....Tommy Turbeville, head coach of Auburn, says ESPN has a bias against SEC football and ESPN is pushing for a UT/USC match-up....Phil Garner says his team stunk last night and, now...

Fisher DeBerry, head coach at Air Force, may be fired in the next 2-3 hours because he said.

"I like the way Afro-Americans run, we need more kids like that on our team."

These comments were made after TCU drilled Air Force this weekend.

[dragons08]

i havent heard any of these quotes, so when he said Afro, was he refering to hair, or race?

[GTown02]

i havent heard any of these quotes, so when he said Afro, was he refering to hair, or race?
Race.. what he said did not cross any "lines".

[Favpack]

That was his idea of a very unhip way to say African American. Press conference is over and DeBerry keeps his job as coach at Air Force, but is reprimanded for his "insensitive" comments.

I think it was more the WAY he said it, than what he said. Most are saying he said it in a very insensitive way - making a blanket assumption that any black guy is faster than his white guys. You may recall Paul Hornung (sp) got in trouble a while back for saying the same thing about Notre Dame. Apparently Charlie Weiss was not listening that his team was slow.