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[QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2773563, member: 488"]
I didn't mean to imply that race was the reason he was fired.  He was fired because he did a really bad job.  Collectively, I think this board is further along than most when it comes to identifying racial bias.

But I think it played a role here just because it plays a role in everything, especially the coaching profession, where investments still tend to be tied up disproportionately in white men.  There are legitimate reasons for why that is still the case and then there are other reasons that are less valid but also impossible to qualify.  We can play the "how would the reaction be different if he was white?" game all day, but it would be mostly futile because whatever lingering discrimination persists is buried under a bunch of far more thoughtful arguments that can't be dismissed.

I don't think the school is motivated by anything other than money on this one.  The NCAA, on the other hand, has notoriously handled their business in a way that is, if not explicitly racist, then certainly problematic.  The school hitching their wagon to that particular horse has always been what bugs me the most.
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