CU puts Barnett on leave (after "poor" response to rape allegations)

Denver Post ^ | 2.19.04 | Erin Emery and Jim Hughes

[mhking]

Just damn.

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[Eric in the Ozarks]

Is Regina Cowles trying out for the place kicking job at CU ?

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

Barnett is a total sleazeball. He nicely covered up a gambling scandal while he was head coach at Northwestern. Then there's the way he sneaked out of Evanston two days after he vowed to his Northwestern players that he would "take the Purple back to Pasadena".

[AppyPappy]

Yup. Real dork. But someone will hire him.

[Guillermo]

saying she was "utterly distressed" by a police report that describes Barnett as siding "100 percent" with a player accused of rape.

Was she "utterly distressed when her NOW "sisters" sided 100% with accused rapist Bill Clinton?

[OldFriend]

CU is a joke of a school. Long considered the party school of all party schools why are they surprised when their students act like pigs.

[Rutles4Ever]

No way. He's done at Division One. The key to college football is recruiting. His reputation will preceed him and I guarantee any co-ed university will have serious PR issues (read "campus women's groups") to contend with, as well. I can't believe how utterly terrible this has been handled. It's mind boggling.

[dfwgator]

What is it with these CU coaches, they go from one extreme (McCartney) to the other (Neuheisel, Barnett).

[Oberon]

What I can't believe is that this guy actually said what he said to the press. I mean, even if he really believed somehow that Hnida's ability or lack thereof was relevant, why wasn't he smart enough to keep it to himself?

I mean, "No comment" would have been far, far better than verbally attacking Hnida in the media.

[dmz]

LOL.

The obligatory FR post on any thread dealing with a woman's reaction to the report of a rape.

You can set your watch by it.

[Tallguy]

I have a dim memory of a female 3rd-string place kicker at a major college that subsequently transfered to a smaller school. She then kicked and extra-point or something and everybody from Frank DeFord to Bryant Gumbel was having an orgasm over it. I also seem to recall that the reason given for her transfer was that she was harassed by another CU player -- but few details were given.

Was that Hidna? Anybody from CU know?

[Imal]

A painful article that also left me saying Just damn.

[Guillermo]

I think it's a legitimate question.

If Barnett was a pro-abortion politician, with an ambitious wife, they'd be defending him.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I'm not from CU, but Hnida is the one. She ultimately kicked two extra points for New Mexico, becoming the first woman to score points in Division I-A.

[MrB]

Lisa Simpson, alleges she was gang-raped at a party at her off-campus apartment in Boulder attended by football players and recruits

Two things - first, as "Lisa Simpson" I'm sure she catches enough crap without this happening to her.

And inviting a bunch of football players to your apartment and providing intoxicants couldn't have been real smart either. Not to blame her for what happened, but women need to be smarter about putting themselves in dangerous situations.

[AmishDude]

Ask and ye shall receive.

She transferred to New Mexico and got a chance to kick an extra point in the Las Vegas bowl.

It was blocked.

Other info on female kickers is in the article.

[Seruzawa]

I may be prejudiced, but I still have a bad taste in my mouth from the vicious treatment High School Freshman from the @$$hole Varsity football players with the gym coach encouraging their terrorism against the smaller weaker guys. So I love it when I see sports-bullies eat dirt.

I hope they prosecute and imprison with maximum sentences every single player who harassed this chick. Put them all on the sex offender registry. Post their photos in whatever communities they try to live. Make their lives the same miserable hell they gleefully inflicted on others.

[AmishDude]

My article said that Hnida's kick was blocked. Maybe she "scored" last year.

[jimt]

The obligatory FR post on any thread dealing with a woman's reaction to the report of a rape.

No, it's the obligatory FR post when any of that utterly discredited group of hard left lesbians attempts to pretend she give's a rat's patoot about rape.

It's all about the hypocrisy.

Guillermo just beat me to it.