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PSU Hoops Coach Resigns

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NUera

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Penn State head coach Pat Chambers resigned Wednesday following an investigation into inappropriate conduct that stemmed from a former player saying Chambers made a reference to a noose around the player's neck.

Chambers out at PSU
 
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JournCat

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The story doesn't provide enough detail to fairly judge whether Chambers needed to go. The noose comment on its own is bad and the apparent refusal to apologize is worse. You have to figure PSU must have found something much worse if they're pushing out a basketball coach who actually won there.
 
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NJCat

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JournCat said:
The story doesn't provide enough detail to fairly judge whether Chambers needed to go. The noose comment on its own is bad and the apparent refusal to apologize is worse. You have to figure PSU must have found something much worse if they're pushing out a basketball coach who actually won there.
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Well, there's this too:

It was all pretty bad, and that was before former PSU captain Josh Reaves (in an interview with Penn Live’s David Jones) said the situation was “f—ed up, to say the least,” before recounting being called into Chambers’ office for what seems like a pretty blatant (and painfully awkward) attempt to run preemptive damage control:

“I remember when it happened, he called me into a meeting with him,” Reaves said. “I don’t know whether he was trying to cover it up, or what he wanted to do. But he called me into his office asking me to, like, help clarify what he was trying to say. And then, he just made it worse. Because he then told me something that wasn’t as bad but still bad. He ended up saying: ‘That’s not what I meant to say. I tried to say, I wanted to be in the field with him.’ Which really isn’t any better because that’s just dumb.”

I wasn’t certain how Reaves interpreted that because I was a little fuzzy on it myself. Like a fellow slave in the cotton fields?

“I guess so. I don’t know. That’s how I took it, how I interpreted it. Which was wrong. It’s just wrong. And if you can’t understand that, then I don’t want to speak to you. I don’t have anything to say to you.”

 
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JournCat said:
The story doesn't provide enough detail to fairly judge whether Chambers needed to go. The noose comment on its own is bad and the apparent refusal to apologize is worse. You have to figure PSU must have found something much worse if they're pushing out a basketball coach who actually won there.
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Looks like he made a faux pas! Just like most of us have done from time to time
 
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Fitzphile said:
Well, there's this too:

It was all pretty bad, and that was before former PSU captain Josh Reaves (in an interview with Penn Live’s David Jones) said the situation was “f—ed up, to say the least,” before recounting being called into Chambers’ office for what seems like a pretty blatant (and painfully awkward) attempt to run preemptive damage control:

“I remember when it happened, he called me into a meeting with him,” Reaves said. “I don’t know whether he was trying to cover it up, or what he wanted to do. But he called me into his office asking me to, like, help clarify what he was trying to say. And then, he just made it worse. Because he then told me something that wasn’t as bad but still bad. He ended up saying: ‘That’s not what I meant to say. I tried to say, I wanted to be in the field with him.’ Which really isn’t any better because that’s just dumb.”

I wasn’t certain how Reaves interpreted that because I was a little fuzzy on it myself. Like a fellow slave in the cotton fields?

“I guess so. I don’t know. That’s how I took it, how I interpreted it. Which was wrong. It’s just wrong. And if you can’t understand that, then I don’t want to speak to you. I don’t have anything to say to you.”
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Really good PennLive story with more of what appears to be an emerging pattern of boorish or troubling behavior. My guess is they concluded that any problems with racial understanding in the current climate would have made recruiting impossible. In that context, Chambers is also better off resigning now. Take a year, meet with some experts and read some books, and come back. If he could produce a top-25 team at Penn State, he's going to have good job options.
 
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Here is a funny Chambers story. I was lucky enough to attend a PSU v. NU basketball game up at Penn State March 3rd, 2016. Northwestern won the game and my friend got us into the post game press conference. We were supposed to be quiet and sit in the back but my friend who is the Penn State area native and knows Chambers, moves up to the 2nd row and raises his hand to ask a question. I don't think the coach realized it was him until he asked the question. My buddy said his name and then said he was from Oui Magazine and asked a good but long winded question. Chambers relaxed, smiled and answered the question as if he got the joke that went over the head of all the student press in the room which was impressive after a loss.

The guy was a prick but at least he has a sense of humor.
 
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MrScoops

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Titanium999 said:
Looks like he made a faux pas! Just like most of us have done from time to time
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A faux pas is when you forget to put away your decorative monkey with a massive blunt in its mouth before starting a Zoom call. This is the equivalent of pulling your dick out on a Zoom call. It's quite a bit past faux pas territory. Calling this a faux pas is what we call privilege.
 
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CatManTrue said:
Yet Kirk Ferentz still has his job. Amazing.
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Not surprised.

If people generally like you and you have friends in high places, leadership will tolerate your indiscretions up to a point. From my understanding, people tend to think highly of Ferentz.

However, If you're a complete prick to everyone, then you'll be at higher risk of being punished for your misdeeds.

Similarly, in medicine, the data shows that if the patient likes you, you’re less likely to be sued.
 
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