(In)famous

Fisher DeBerry, head football coach at the Air Force Academy, has made national news these past couple of days for comments he made about black athletes and recruiting. After we were crushed by # 20 TCU last weekend he made the observation that Texas Christian "had a lot more Afro-American players than we did and they ran a lot faster than we did." Making generalizations about an entire race is "bad joo joo", even if it is somewhat of a compliment.

Personally, I think the media is making a "mountain out of a mole hill" but I would agree his words were unnecessary. We live in a society that is very sensitive towards certain issues, race being one of them. Regardless, he should have reserved these ideas for a crowd somewhat smaller than the national media.

*Random fact of the day: Fisher DeBerry is considered a civilian contractor (he's not in the Air Force but works for it) and has the highest salary in the Department of Defense at close to $600,000 a year. That is more than the most senior General in the military or even the President of the United States. Pretty good considering his record this year...