McCaffery Suspended

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You're nearly as stupid as she is!

No, I'm just not as uptight as you.

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No, I'm just not as uptight as you.

Take it up with the AD over at BC. They're the ones who suspended her.

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Personally, I think it is a bunch of nonsense. Tell her to take the Tweets down and don't do it again. Suspension is over the top punishment for what she did.

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This situation prompts me to think of the MIAA Captains & Coaches Leadership Conference that I attended in August with maybe 75, give or take, coaches and incredibly impressive student athletes. All I could think at the time as I was so impressed with the discussions and presentations throughout the day was how come there wasn't 10 times as many kids attending, listening and participating.

Make no mistake, the specifics relating to Penn State are unique here, but the broad issues relating to conduct, choices and of course the social media dynamic is a problem getting worse, not better. My take is that the scenarios and opportunities to make bad choices are more plentiful (social media being part of that equation). Where a bad decision may have been made in private or contained, today is public and promoted in an instant.

I hope other coaches at all levels take heed from this. Maybe some good can come out of it.

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No, I'm just not as uptight as you.

Talk about uptight! Where are the refs going to get their Twinkees once Hostess closes their doors?

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BC apologist??? No, just someone who woke up this morning to see her name and face plastered all over the news. Yet prior to the election, no one was reporting what happened in Banghazi despite 4 Americans dying there. What could she have possibly said that warrants such coverage???

Why don't you spend some time your self and research what she said? Rather than rely on this board for the facts

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Personally, I think it is a bunch of nonsense. Tell her to take the Tweets down and don't do it again. Suspension is over the top punishment for what she did.

I am wondering if BC is overly sensitive to the pedophile angle due to the litany of problems the Catholic Church has had in this area.

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Personally, I think it is a bunch of nonsense. Tell her to take the Tweets down and don't do it again. Suspension is over the top punishment for what she did.

Sure, tell your daughter the AD is guilty of very poor judgment. She is a victim. Just go on thinking that as she grows up and does things like represent a fine sports team and school, she bears no accountability for her actions. Right?!

BTW, I'm no BC fan, but good job AD. Handled this better so far than Amherst or Penn State did.

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Personally, I think it is a bunch of nonsense. Tell her to take the Tweets down and don't do it again. Suspension is over the top punishment for what she did.

Just like any punitive action in organized sports (i.e. read the recent ESPN Mag article on NFL VP in charge of fining hits on QB), the punishment is at least in part related to policing conduct to deter future non-compliance.

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Sure, tell your daughter the AD is guilty of very poor judgment. She is a victim. Just go on thinking that as she grows up and does things like represent a fine sports team and school, she bears no accountability for her actions. Right?!

BTW, I'm no BC fan, but good job AD. Handled this better so far than Amherst or Penn State did.

Well said.

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Sure, tell your daughter the AD is guilty of very poor judgment. She is a victim. Just go on thinking that as she grows up and does things like represent a fine sports team and school, she bears no accountability for her actions. Right?!

BTW, I'm no BC fan, but good job AD. Handled this better so far than Amherst or Penn State did.

BTW, I agree with the suspension but ...

Did you really just compare this to the problems at Penn State or Amherst????

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Personally, I think it is a bunch of nonsense. Tell her to take the Tweets down and don't do it again. Suspension is over the top punishment for what she did.

Your daughter made a mistake. Accept the punishment and move on. Learn from it

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Just like any punitive action in organized sports (i.e. read the recent ESPN Mag article on NFL VP in charge of fining hits on QB), the punishment is at least in part related to policing conduct to deter future non-compliance.

Absolutely. Slap her on the wrist and the kids get the message. It's no big deal. Continue on.

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Sure, tell your daughter the AD is guilty of very poor judgment. She is a victim. Just go on thinking that as she grows up and does things like represent a fine sports team and school, she bears no accountability for her actions. Right?!

BTW, I'm no BC fan, but good job AD. Handled this better so far than Amherst or Penn State did.

Too bad HB is not anymore at Penn State. She would take care the matter on the field.

Amazing how stars players transfer, fight, get in trouble and so forth so on...

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While I don't know the details of the tweets, nor if the student/players ever received education or a list of social rules of conduct regarding current affairs, I do have issue with the sentiment of some of the responses here suggesting that everyone should just be quiet about the Penn St/Sandusky/Paterno Pedofile case. The solution is not to sweep it under the rug and never talk about it. You can't just forget that this happened even though Sandusky is in jail until dead of natural causes or is hung by a prison mate. What is it that you are specifically angry about the tweets? If they are bad then the student can be verbally disciplined the first time. If so and this was a second offense then punish her more. Unless, there was some pre season rules of conduct against this, then why punish the student harshly now? Is somewhat upset because of the embarrassment that Penn St might suffer for insults and jokes made about the university? As juvenile as they might be, sweeping this topic under the rug and making it Taboo to discuss it is not the answer. In fact, this solution is what allowed it to go on for more than a decade.

You are really out of touch and confusing several different issues. If the student-athlete is truly concerned about the horrors of Sandusky and PSU then she could have written a 20 page on the topic for one of her classes, or written an editorial for the BC college newspaper. Tweeting insults of this nature about the opponent you are about to play is horrible judgment at best. I don't there was any intent to "speak out" out child sexual abuse here. And yes, I am sure there is not a D1 school in the country that does not review guidelines for social media for student-athletes.

The only semi-cogent argument made on this thread is the idea that she undersestimated the reach of her tweets. That is possible and I'm sure she did not expect the firestorm that ensued. That said, she should know just from seeing what happens to the tweets of professional athletes and other high profile persons (Donald Trump and others just a week or so ago).

Those of you bringing in Benghazi and somehow using this to take another jab at Obama are truly lowly creatures. And people insist it isn't racist. States petitioning to secede from the Union. Redneck musicians threatening to kill. Celebrities talking about the "worst scam ever perpretrated against the American people." Accusations of being a dangerous terrorist Muslim. All that for just being a center left President? Right. Imagine how easily he would have won if he wasn't facing raw, primitive, white redneck racism every single day. I'm surprised he isn't being blamed for the Needham PK. Oh, that's right, he was for Somerville because they have minorities who also don't have birth certificates.