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Ron Franklin fired by ESPN for comments to female co-worker.
 

Great Voice and First Class Prick Fired

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He was rightly fired for a lack of professionalism in dealing with a co-worker. When you are in the public eye you can't afford a lapse.
 

It's also not the first offense, not quite sure why Franklin doesn't know how to talk to women...would he call Jack Arute a prick or a meathead on-air?
 

They should have put that broad in her place and showed her the door. Skirts have no place in sports journalism.
 




"Put an asterisk next to that one"

Ron Franklin*








*Did not realize it's no longer the 1920's.
 







I worked with Franklin when he was at ESPN and I was in the KU SID office. My boss was an attractive female and she was the head SID for the KU football program. He walked into the weekly media/SID meeting and my boss started to give the overview of the Jayhawks and he said "hey sweet tits, I can't hear you" in front of about five of us. My boss asked him to leave and he said no. The KU AD had to come in and ask him to leave the office.

It shouldn't have taken 10+ years for this to happen. The incident with my boss wasn't the first time he made a comment like this and clearly not his last.

Go Gophers!!
 



What did he say to the co-worker? I missed the story I guess.
 



13 Lined Ground Squirrel said:
They were preparing for the Chick-fil-a Peach Bowl. I would have come up with a way better line.
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Agreed. I assume that's why they fired him. The best he could do was "sweet baby"? There's no place in broadcast journalism for that kind of lack of imagination.
 

BleedGopher said:
I worked with Franklin when he was at ESPN and I was in the KU SID office. My boss was an attractive female and she was the head SID for the KU football program. He walked into the weekly media/SID meeting and my boss started to give the overview of the Jayhawks and he said "hey sweet tits, I can't hear you" in front of about five of us. My boss asked him to leave and he said no. The KU AD had to come in and ask him to leave the office.

It shouldn't have taken 10+ years for this to happen. The incident with my boss wasn't the first time he made a comment like this and clearly not his last.

Go Gophers!!
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I call women "sugar tits" all the time. I don't understand the problem.;)
 


BleedGopher said:
I worked with Franklin when he was at ESPN and I was in the KU SID office. My boss was an attractive female and she was the head SID for the KU football program. He walked into the weekly media/SID meeting and my boss started to give the overview of the Jayhawks and he said "hey sweet tits, I can't hear you" in front of about five of us. My boss asked him to leave and he said no. The KU AD had to come in and ask him to leave the office.

It shouldn't have taken 10+ years for this to happen. The incident with my boss wasn't the first time he made a comment like this and clearly not his last.

Go Gophers!!
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yeah, he should have said please.
 



Jike Spingleton said:
Put an asterisk next to that one. Ron Franklin*








*Did not realize it's no longer the 1920's.
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So let's take a timeout...with our new score:
Ron Franklin 0
Common Sense and Decency 1
 


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