Greg McMackin will never guest judge on So You Think You Can Dance
It’s the preseason, I get it. And thus, any story remotely centering on college football will get eaten up by the rabid masses of fan bases looking for any and all relevant stories to somewhat sate their bloodlust for college football news. So any reaction at all to any story doesn’t surprise me. I can only hope that this story receives the attention and the outcry that it deserves.
Meet Greg McMackin, head coach of the University of Hawaii Rainbows, who may receive the award for Stupidest Thing Ever Said with his comments at the WAC Media Days, in addition to totally painting yourself intolerant, bigoted, and homophobic! Congrats.
Says the Reno Gazette Journal…
SALT LAKE CITY – Second-year Hawaii football coach Greg McMackin said Notre Dame players engaged in a “little faggot dance” when describing a banquet the night before the Hawaii Bowl last December.
McMackin, speaking at the Western Athletic Conference’s annual football media preview on Thursday morning, said the teams gathered the night before the game for a banquet when Irish coach Charlie Weis introduced the players and a ritual they do.
“I know most of the coaches in the country are rooting for us to beat Notre Dame,” McMackin said. “Charlie gives this talk, ‘We do something special at Notre Dame,’ and (the players) get up and they do this little cheer … this little faggot dance.”
McMackin said he felt he made a mistake by then having the Hawaii players do a Ha’a, a ritual Polynesian dance that McMackin believed made the Irish players take notice and get them to play at a higher level the following day. Notre Dame won, 49-21.
After describing the dances, McMackin asked reporters not to write about it and made a reference to Karl Benson, the WAC commissioner who was in the room.
“Don’t write that ‘faggot’ down. I was misquoted,” he said. “Just please … cover for me,” McMackin said Thursday. “Go ahead, say ‘faggot dance.’ No. Please cover for me on that, too — right Karl? I’ll deny it. Anything else?”
About 15 minutes after McMackin left the room, he returned and added, “I want to officially, officially apologize. Please don’t write that statement I said as far as Notre Dame. The reason is, I don’t care about Notre Dame. But I’m not a … I don’t want to come out and have every homosexual ticked off at me. You know what I mean. Because I don’t have any problem with homosexuals. But I apologize for saying that and I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t run that word. If you said dance, that’s OK. But don’t use the bad term that I chose, please. Thank you.”
Well… at least he thanked them.
Oh, Greg McMackin… I do not envy you. Secondarily because of the way your team got violated last season at the hands of Notre Dame and their fleet footed dancin’ football team. But primarily, you receive no envy of mine because you are without question the newest entrant in the OTP Sports Douche of the Year bracket.
You said it, which was Douche Move #1, but then coming back in and acting like a complete and utter dickbag on top of being a raging slur spewing homophobe is Douche Move #2. Additionally, you must have also ate a heaping helping of Dumbass this morning if you expect a room full of journalists to ever “cover” for you.
In 2008, the Rainbows were penalized more than any other team in the FBS. The apple, or head apple as the case may be, won’t fall far from his rule breaking teamtree, as he’s about to become the most penalized coach in the WAC, assuming the conference has any testicular fortitude whatsoever.
Finally, the real kick in the pants is Hawaii’s team mascot is the Rainbow. Which itself has sort of an ancillary connection to this story. Remember last week when you were wondering what the definition of irony was? I’m pretty sure this is it.
As OTP’s resident Irish homer, I would like to reiterate and thank Greg McMackin for inspiring his football players to allow the Irish to destroy them in the ballroom and the football field. You should be embarrassed to even call that a football team after the non-performance against a team that had lost 9 straight bowls.
But hey, you’re a hell of a bigot.
ND ND ND, c’mon, your gonna brag about beating Hawaii??? You better beat hawaii.. YOUR ND. your supposed to have the most tradition in the Nation!!!!!
But yet you can only talk when you beat Hawaii. Talk about USC, and the Fiesta bowl. The requirement is to win 9 games for a BCS bid. You guy’s can’t do that. Clausen huh? What a prospect he turned out to be.
Rainbow?? that hasn’t been our mascot for YEARS.
Let’s see, the only teams from the PAC 10 that beat us recently is OSU and USC.
ASU,,check… WASU… chech… UW check….. oh and i almost forgot…. Cincinatti big east champ.. had to squeeze their butts to get out alive.
NO RESPECT FROM ANYONE… what was it like losing to the orange last year.