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Title: Longtime Sooners baseball coach resigns [accused of racism]
Source: USA Today
URL Source: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/coll ... 005-05-01-oklahoma-coach_x.htm
Published: May 1, 2005
Author: Andy Gardiner
Post Date: 2005-05-02 10:11:37 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
Keywords: Longtime, baseball, [accused
Views: 119
Comments: 3

Longtime Sooners baseball coach resigns

By Andy Gardiner, USA TODAY

Oklahoma baseball coach Larry Cochell resigned Sunday after reports surfaced of alleged racial remarks he made during an off-camera TV interview, likely ending his 39-year career.

Cochell used the slur after praising African-American freshman outfielder Joe Dunigan before Tuesday's game against Wichita State, which was carried on ESPN2 and ESPNU. Later, in an interview with color commentator Kyle Peterson, Cochell also said, "Dunigan is a good black kid."

Oklahoma President David Boren had met with athletics director Joe Castiglione and campus minority leaders Sunday and also spoke with Dunigan's parents.

Cochell is the fifth-winningest baseball coach in Division I history with more than 1,300 victories, including a national title.

The longtime coach submitted a letter of resignation to President David Boren, who had met hours before with athletics director Joe Castiglione and members of the university's African-American community on the matter.

Boren accepted the letter and said Castiglione has designated Sunny Golloway as interim head coach for the rest of the season.

Cochell had issued an apology and repeated the sentiment in his resignation letter Sunday.

"As I have said in a public statement, I deeply regret that I carelessly used language that is clearly contrary to the basic values of our university. Those words also created an impression contrary to my own personal values and my respect for all people," the letter released by the university read.

"This is a university which celebrates diversity as a source of strength. ... The word that was used has a long and painful history in our nation and deserves unqualified condemnation," Boren said Sunday before Cochell resigned.

Dunigan, African-American teammate Chuckie Caufield and former African-American players at Oklahoma had decried Cochell's comments but said they were out of character.

Cochell, a native of Lebanon, Ore., who played at Arizona State, led the Sooners to the College World Series title in 1994.

I can't believe he rolled over for the race baiters.

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...more infor from ESPN...

University president accepts letter of resignation

ESPN.com news services

NORMAN, Okla. -- University of Oklahoma baseball coach Larry Cochell resigned Sunday, two days after reports surfaced of alleged racial remarks he made during two off-camera interviews to ESPN.

The longtime coach submitted a letter of resignation to president David Boren, who had met hours before with athletic director Joe Castiglione and members of the university's black community on the matter.

Boren accepted the letter and said Castiglione has designated Sunny Golloway as interim baseball coach for the rest of the season.

Tuesday, before the telecast of the Oklahoma-Wichita State game on ESPN2 and ESPNU, Cochell used a racially insensitive term in off-camera interviews with ESPN to describe Sooners freshman outfielder Joe Dunigan III, an African-American.

Cochell was speaking with play-by-play announcer Gary Thorne when he called Dunigan over to praise him for staying in school. When the freshman returned to the field, Cochell told Thorne, "There's no n----- in him." The network informed the school that Cochell used similar language in an interview with ESPN analyst Kyle Peterson.

The interviews were not taped, and Thorne and Peterson didn't know Cochell had used similar language in both instances until they spoke with each other days later, ESPN director of media relations Josh Krulewitz said.

"We recognize that stories of this nature could have significant repercussions and we took great pains to bring the appropriate sensitivity and balance to our reporting," Krulewitz said Sunday.

The university, which didn't learn of the remarks until contacted Friday afternoon by ESPN, issued a statement that it was reviewing the matter and that Golloway would assume Cochell's duties on an interim basis. Cochell wasn't in the dugout during Oklahoma's Big 12 Conference series with Nebraska on Friday or Saturday.

Cochell, who led the Sooners to a 1994 College World Series victory, issued a statement apologizing for what he said and added that the remarks were not reflective of his own values.

He repeated that in his resignation letter.

"As I have said in a public statement, I deeply regret that I carelessly used language that is clearly contrary to the basic values of our university. Those words also created an impression contrary to my own personal values and my respect for all people," the letter released by the university read. "... I do not want to be the cause of any person having a mistaken impression about our university. Therefore I hereby request that I be allowed to resign as head baseball coach of the University of Oklahoma effective immediately."

In a statement, Boren said no one took any pleasure in what happened.

"A good and caring man has made a terrible mistake for which he must assume responsibility," Boren said.

According to a report in Sunday's The Oklahoman, Dunigan and his father said they forgave Cochell for his comments.

"He has apologized," Joe Dunigan Jr. told The Oklahoman. "Those words are powerful and derisive. They were inappropriate and offensive. But he is a man who has done so many good things in his life.

"He has treated us like family," he continued. "We have broken bread with him. I know he is a Christian man. We all say things that we don't mean, and I hope people down there don't color him as a racist because he made a mistake."

Both Dunigans and Charles Caufield, the father of Chuckie Caufield, the only other black player on the team, had told The Oklahoman they wanted Cochell to keep his job.

"He hasn't done anything where he deserved to be fired," Charles Caufield told the newspaper. "It's a small thing. I don't condone what he said. But I've been around the media and you got to watch what you say because they can twist it and make a story and then run with it."

In his statement, Cochell said he was honored to have been the caretaker of the Sooners program, which he took over in 1991.

"I love and respect the University of Oklahoma," Cochell said. "There is not a university in the country that has done more to create a true sense of family based upon mutual respect."

Mr Nuke Buzzcut  posted on  2005-05-02   10:24:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

"This is a university which celebrates diversity as a source of strength...."

how does one "celebrate diversity" anyway? Does it involve silly hats, noisemakers, and the consumption of cake?

If they really valued diversity, why would it matter what this guy said?

Dakmar  posted on  2005-05-02   10:29:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

If they really valued diversity, why would it matter what this guy said?

They only celebrate a very narrow and homogenous form of diversity. His kind of diversity has no place in their world.

Mr Nuke Buzzcut  posted on  2005-05-02   10:44:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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