I thought it was pretty damn cool.Dawn Staley makes good on promise to share South Carolina's 2017 women's NCAA championship net
To kick off the women's college basketball season, South Carolina coach Dawn Staley shared one of her prized possessions with Black women coaches.www.usatoday.com
There are a ton of white coaches for a sport with 95% black players. Dawn is doing this for motivation so more black coaches to accomplish more and get hired. Quit starting crap and trying to start a race thing 😡
Actually it’s a legit question, your outrage simply amazes me. What’s the percentage of a race that it no longer constitutes “racist actions” when something like this happens? Too many of one race means they can be discriminated against and it’s justified all while not enough of another race allows for that race to actively discriminate against the larger group. This is getting old.
When Black Coaches get opportunities to fail like other coaches then there will be no need for this. You have all these Black players in football and basketball. However, there always seems to be a reason why they don’t get opportunities when it comes to coaching. It seems we will let them do the PR work with Black families to get the talent in, but little else. That is why it is special in the few instances that they get opportunities. This issue bleeds all the way down to the high school level.
Who is putting out the videos? Is it Dawn or USC? Or are the coaches receiving the piece of net putting them out? Makes a difference.
I have personally worked for two black head coaches. In my experience with them they were both excellent men of character and I admired them. With that being said they were soft in terms of discipline, especially foe the star player and they were grossly unorganized and terrible and planning. I’ve also worked for white coaches who were too tough and were work-aholics. Neither of those things have to do with race. Just so happened that was my experience. I’m sure others have another experience. Hire the best coach. To hell with what color his or her skin is.
It's not a surprising comment coming from you as you are always the 1st to comment on anything she does....really, does she hurt your feelings that much, does she really offend you??...sure seems like it.
White people are not lacking opportunity in sports. Well, maybe at cornerback, but that's okay. A white cornerback is the most useless thing in sports.
What does your race, gender, or where you grew up have to do with whether Dawn is or isn't racist? And what does your race, gender or where you grew up have to do with validating Dawn's ability as a coach? "This coming from a 46 year old white male..." As if there is something profound about a middle aged white male saying Dawn is a good coach. I doubt you will find any middle aged honkies that know anything about women's basketball that won't say she is a good coach.
Most of her outward political positions are related to the sport...such as the lack of black leadership in a sport dominated by black youth or the inequalities faced by women in NCAA sports when compared to the male equivalent.
This. All coaches need to keep the politics off the court.
She's paid VERY well by The University of South Carolina to coach our WBB team. During games or press conferences, she needs to lose the politically themed crap.
This reply speaks volumes. Why do you feel issues like the lack of black leadership or the inequalities faced by women are politically themed? Are these issues opposed by people that wear MAGA hats? Shouldn't you want equality for all? Honestly ask and answer yourself why these issues bother you.
I agreee with hire the best coach. My issue is that many times that it is used as an excuse to not even give the Black coach a chance. It took a Rooney rule and the Rooney’s to go out on a limb to give Mike Tomlin a chance. Now, he is considered one of the best coaches in the NFL. Giving Dawn Staley a chance coming from Temple and barely out of the WNBA was considered radical. She, also, could have easily been put in the box of a great player can’t possibly be a good coach. A National Championship, 3 Final Four appearances, and about six SEC championships later that line of thinking seems short-sighted at best. People try to just say that black players are more gifted in an attempt to use that as an excuse to limit their opportunities intellectually. However, I remember a time when Blacks didn’t get an opportunity athletically either. The same excuses you hear with coaching opportunities were the same excuses you heard with allowing them to play. I was around when the word was that you couldn’t let Black players play or play certain positions because they didn’t have the mental capacity. Even when it got better, I remember the notion that you could have only 2 Black players on the Basketball starting five at a time. What I have found is that most race issues are not out of hate. It is out of fear. It is a fear that if we give this other group an opportunity, where are my opportunities going to come from? My thought is that it frees us to find the very best possible no matter where it comes from. My issues have never been with white coaches being hired. It’s been with them being hired in an incomplete process based on racial stereotypes that should be a part of our past.
One more time. Keep it off the court. If she wants to promote her agenda outside her duties as head coach, have at it.
Right on cue as the old folks used to say, " A hit dog will holler"! She's highly focused on Basketball "on the court". She's is a public figure and she is great at using her platform outside of any game situation.
I have no idea who this post was addressed to. If it was addressed to NA Gamecock, I don't se the "outrage" in his/her post.
