Jack Ass of The Week

This week's Jack Ass is CU football coach, Gary Barnett. This guy is such a waterhead, I don't even know how to insult his intellegence worse than he already has by speaking in public. In a story making the rounds in the college sports workd, former female placekicker Katie Hnida, reported being hazed, sexually harrassed and eventually raped by members of her own team. Now, this wasn't even isolated as she came forward on the heels of other CU students claiming that they were raped at sex parties thrown for the team. Coach Waterhead... I mean, Coach Barnett's incredible response was to state for the new cameras, that Katie was "a girl, and not just a girl, but she was awful." He didn't apparently have any sympathy for her, anger towards the chowderheads on his team that did this to her... nor did he seem to make any connection between going through a living hell and performing poorly.


Let's put you in County Corrections for a few weeks, let you get molested and raped and see how your coaching performance does!

To wit:
"Another Victim at Colorado
Rick Reilly
SI.com - Feb 18, 2004

"At Colorado they're majoring in b.s. The denials have piled up like cordwood. You show me a coach who maintains he's unaware of recruiting parties featuring paid strippers, of four alleged rapes, of sexual harassment claims by one of his players against other players, and I'll show you a coach who is hell-bent on not knowing.

Makes this alum want to hide his class ring."

Rick Reilly, who broke the story, takes the words right of my mouth. Everyone likes to play the deniability card when they're caught asleep at the wheel. The words "not me" are ingrained in our collective psyche as Americans. But declaring that Katie Hnida was coming forward with her story because she was a girl and a terrible player just trying to cover a weak season... on what planet does that make sense to say out loud. Your mouth was moving, your larynx was making vibrations, Barnett, but was your brain actually engaged in the process of crapping that stupidity out of your mouth?

Well, no need to stand on ceremony, folks. Even Jesus thinks this guy's a jackass.