Baylor Football Coach Apologizes for Using the Word ‘Midgets’ During Press Conference
“The comments were in the context of his concerns about using the transfer portal to acquire players”
The coach should not have apologized. That’s a very funny word.
The College Fix reports:
Baylor football coach apologizes for saying ‘midgets’
The head football coach for Baylor University apologized for using the term “midgets” during a recent press conference.
Last week, Dave Aranda referenced a scene from the film “Wolf of Wall Street” where the employees are throwing midgets and decide they need to make them feel like “one of us.”
The comments were in the context of his concerns about using the transfer portal to acquire players and getting involved with “name, image, and likeness” deals.
Aranda said he wasn’t “comfortable” with how the transfer portal and NIL feels like buying and selling players. In his comments, Aranda compared how he felt those systems take advantage of players to how employees in the “Wolf of Wall Street” movie are taking advantage of midgets but try to hide it by pretending they are on the same team. (Baylor Athletics scrubbed the comments from its own version it posted).
He said:
There’s a scene in The Wolf of Wall Street, where they talk about throwing midgets. It’s like, “Hey, this midget, can he roll there?” And you go, “No, he doesn’t roll. You throw him. They’re made for throwing.” … And then after a while, they start talking and they go, “Well, you know what? I think, if you start talking, they may think we’re making fun of them. The midgets may think we’re making fun of them. So I’m going to start. They may get mad at us.”
And then the guys go, “Well, what we need to do is make them think they’re
one of us.” And they go, “One of us? One of us.”And I think that’s the thing with coaching, call it recruiting, is it’s that way. They talk about acquiring players, getting rid of players, just like that. And the whole thing underneath all that is they make them think they’re one of us, you know what I mean?
This generated outrage, which led Aranda to apologize.
“I wanted to say, last time we spoke, I had a misstep and hurt a bunch of people, so I apologize for that,” Aranda said, as reported by KCEN TV. “That was not what I intended to come across, so I’m sorry for that.
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but throwing them was ok
ahahahahahahahaaa
wokefooooksters
have to admit
he needed to apologize b/c losing your job for that should be where the real
apology occurs
The M-word? Ah, so close!
I guess none of the Karens and Kens were perceptive enough to recognize the repetition of “one of us” as an homage to a related scene in the movie Freaks. Gooble Gobble!
It’s sad there are people whose spirits are so withered and niggardly as to complain about things like this.
Why must we police words so ridiculously.
Was there an intent here to be little someone? No. He used a clever analogy to describe the out of control mess that is college sports right now.
Why is midget so much worse than dwarf which is apparently so much worse than little person? And why is there no word available that is acceptable for fat in PC land except the eye rolling and excruciatingly stupid fragile feelings phrase of “body positive.”