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Did Les handle comments about gay player well?
Posted on 2/10/14 at 8:39 am
Posted on 2/10/14 at 8:39 am
Last April (2013), Alfred Blue commented about possibility of a gay player in the locker room
Les addressed the manner in a typical Les manner. Used a lot of words to traipse the minefield of an issue.
Was this the best Les could have done given the political and cultural sensitivities of his audience?
The person who may have done the best job in addressing the issue may have been Trai Turner.
As did James Hairston.
Hope LSU fans acquit themselves well, if LSU football team ever needs to address a player being gay.
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Football is supposed to be this violent sport—this aggressive sport that grown men are supposed to play. Ain’t no little boys out here between them lines. So if you gay, we look at you as a sissy. You know? Like, how you going to say you can do what we do and you want a man?
Les addressed the manner in a typical Les manner. Used a lot of words to traipse the minefield of an issue.
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I would handle it as what’s important and what’s best for the team. I would treat him, and expect his teammates to treat him, in an appropriate and straightforward manner. ... It would have to be something that I took to an office and kind of describe how I saw locker rooms and how I saw travel and how I saw staying in hotel rooms and how I saw those things. If that’s not an issue, I think things could be resolved.
Was this the best Les could have done given the political and cultural sensitivities of his audience?
The person who may have done the best job in addressing the issue may have been Trai Turner.
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College football is a business and you have to conduct yourself in a manner where you respect everyone you deal with. I feel like if the person is gay, he must still conduct himself in the manner of a football player, and if a person isn’t gay, he must still look at the person who views himself as gay, or says he is gay, as his teammate.
As did James Hairston.
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I believe that this is an important issue, one that does need to come to the forefront, that does need to be talked about. But I think the main thing is people can learn as fans, as athletes, as just people in general, just respect one another and it ends at that.
Hope LSU fans acquit themselves well, if LSU football team ever needs to address a player being gay.
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Posted on 2/10/14 at 8:43 am to YellowShoe
Yes
Posted on 2/10/14 at 8:45 am to YellowShoe
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if LSU football team ever needs to address a player being gay.
with 85 scholly players and a few dozen walkons, it's statistically probable that there are around 1-5 gay players, depending on whose research you accept. LSU fans will have to deal with it at some point. Like you, I hope LSU fans handle it well, but knowing LSU fans, I'm not real confident that they will.
Posted on 2/10/14 at 8:48 am to YellowShoe
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Les
Handled it fine
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Trai Turner
Handled it fine
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James Hairston
Handled it very well
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Alfred Blue
Sounds like someone from Boutte. It is what it is.
Posted on 2/10/14 at 9:18 am to YellowShoe
who cares?
Posted on 2/10/14 at 9:30 am to YellowShoe
quote:
Was this the best Les could have done given the political and cultural sensitivities of his audience?
who cares?
Posted on 2/10/14 at 9:50 am to YellowShoe
I would wager that Blue's comments better represent the feeling of most of the team than Hairston's.
Posted on 2/10/14 at 9:57 am to YellowShoe
The real travesty in this society is that you're no longer allowed to say how you really feel about this issue. You're basically forced to tiptoe around it, and you're not allowed to feel uncomfortable with it. Unless you completely embrace it, you're a bigot. Forget the fact that it adds a complicated and undoubtedly uncomfortable element to the team. You can think it, but you better not say it or you'll be labelled and the wave of public opinion will turn against you.
Seems to me that there will be those who feel uncomfortable with it, and they should have the right to be uncomfortable without having to pay for it.
Seems to me that there will be those who feel uncomfortable with it, and they should have the right to be uncomfortable without having to pay for it.
Posted on 2/10/14 at 10:39 am to YellowShoe
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just respect one another and it ends at that
My personal opinion is Michael Sam didn't choose to be Gay anymore than he chose to be black.It was his choice to come forward and say he was Gay and that is his right.However, I don't think he had the right to tell the Times he dated a man on the Missouri swim team.If the man on the Missouri swim team wished to come out and say he was Gay, that would be his choice not Micheal Sam's choice.
Posted on 2/10/14 at 10:55 am to YellowShoe
If we haven't figured it out yet, there are gay people everywhere. Apparently there were always gay people everywhere. My 82 year old mother-in-law confirms that they've always known that there were gay people everywhere, although she wishes they would all just "go back in the closet."
The issue of the day is not the presence of gay people, it is the closet. They've come out and they are not going back in.
So we simply have to deal with it. So what?
The issue of the day is not the presence of gay people, it is the closet. They've come out and they are not going back in.
So we simply have to deal with it. So what?
Posted on 2/10/14 at 11:13 am to YellowShoe
quote:Why james? Why is it important?
I believe that this is an important issue,
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