John White is an idiot. I'm sure he's a very smart person, academically. Unfortunately, if you've spent your life in academics you have no experience in positions that actually require you to focus on PERFORMANCE with little regard for fluff. In other words, if you own your own business and you have to hire a new sales manager, you are going to go after the one who will PERFORM the best. You will give little credence to the person's skin color, gender, etc...
Sports are even more competitive than business. As a matter of fact, some business academic should figure out some research comparing sports to business, but I digress.
You don't hire a basketball coach based on the color of his/her skin. That's racism.
You don't hire a basketball coach based on his/her gender. That's sexism.
Yet in the PC world of academia, it's OK to be racist and sexist as long as you are favoring the a priori underepresented group.
Thankfully, Frank Broyles won his last major battle this week. Negotiations with Billy Gillispie are going on through this weekend. Heath will be fired next week. Gillispie will be hired soon thereafter.
Equality through performance based evaluation has triumphed.
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