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Message: [QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 3047479, member: 6911"] Wait a minute. That article seems to excuse Don Imus for his racist comments against Stringer's players by saying that Coach Stringer recruited in her many decades as a basketball coach three players who had troubled backgrounds. Putting those two arguments together is simply wrong. As others have written here, Coach Stringer has been through a great deal in her life. Yet she has succeeded as one of the finest coaches of all time. Does she give some players a second chance? A third chance? Perhaps that's because she understands them. Perhaps that's because she empathizes with young black women who've had it tough before as well. And to pick out three players in fifteen years, or three players in- how many decades has she been coaching? That's not right. And the claim that Stringer is no better, or perhaps worse, than the average basketball coach is just not true. Coach Stringer sits near the top of all-time wins by any women's basketball coach anywhere in this country. And if one looks as the WNBA, or the international women's basketball leagues, her players stand as some of the best of all time. Coach Stringer has been a fine coach for decades. Coach Stringer is one of a very few black women pioneers in college coaching. And she remains one of a small handful of black coaches in this game. I'm sorry, but that article was unfair, inaccurate, and wrong. [/QUOTE]