MN Daily: Tubby Smith upset with vulgar chants

And I'm disappointed with being on the bubble every year when we pay our coach tons of cash. We all have our disappointments. I still support Tubby, but frustration and disappointment is a two way street.

Gophers weren't On The Bubble in 2008 (clearly NIT bound) or 2009 (easily in NCAA field). In 2010, yep. A late run of W in B10T bubbled the Gophers into NCAA. In 2011 (clearly) on the bubble.
 

That sounds like the end result of a memo from Maturi.

File this one in the T cabinet, under "Trash."

If anyone thinks Tubby isn't embarrassed by that type of behavior then you don't know Tubby. Everyone in the Barn with a maturity level higher than a Middle Schooler is embarrassed by it. It is just one more indication of declining standards of behavior and the dumbing down of society. Anyone with an IQ over 85 should be able to come up with more clever and effective chants without having to resort to the type of profanity that causes parents with young children (and future Gopher fans) to regret bringing them to the game.
 

I would like to tell you a story.

I have five children. One, two, three, four, five. Five... Five children. I live in Minnesota with my wife, Camille, and my five children. Now, of the five children that we have, there are four girls and a boy. The boy's name is Ennis. He loves everything the Gophers do. Comes home from school the other day with a big smile on his face. And my son looks just like me. He walks through the door, looking at me with this big smile, and I cannot resist, because it's such a beautiful smile. And he walks up and I say, 'What are you smiling about?' And the child says to me: 'I'm smiling because I need money to go see the Minnesota Gophers. Please give me money for a ticket.'

Now, if the child is smiling this way because he needs money for a ticket, I have to give him money for a ticket. I do not handle the money in the house. My wife, Camille, handles the ticket money. So I must go into the kitchen, to where my wife is cooking dinner for the family. And she is inside the kitchen cooking. And she's got a bowl. And she's cooking up the food, man. She's cooking it up. And the child walks in the room with the smile and he says, 'Mother, please, money.' She gives him the money, he runs off to see your team.

Now.....we sit in the living room waiting for Ennis to return. At about 2:00 in the morning, the child comes through the door. He has a different look on his face. A look like he heard something at the game that he's never heard before. And I say to my child, I say, 'Child... ' I say, 'What did you hear at the game? ' And he says, 'Pop, the student section says these things.' I say, 'Well, what did they say? ' 'Pop, they says some stuff.' "I say, 'What did they do? ' 'Pop, they stand up and go: "Hello, suck this, and MF and kiss my big black stuff. And suck it and stick it down in your mouth and suck it, suck it."'

You cannot say filth, flarn, filth, flarn, filth in front of people.



That's when Tubby got pissed and told the student section:

"That's what I'm talking about. You cannot say 'f%*&' in front of people."

And the student section got mad. Because he thought that was their whole act. Like they just walked out in the student section and cursed and left. They manage to stick in some jokes between the curses. They couldn't give no curse show. Walk out, say, "Hey, Williams Arena, MFer, Richard, pu$$y, snot and $hit. Good night. Good night. Suck our Richard. Bye-bye."

The student section was pi$$ed off. They were so mad they called Richard Pryor's house up. They said, "Yo, Richard, Tubby Smith just called us up and told us we were too dirty."

Richard said, "The next time MFer call, tell him I said, 'Suck my Richard.'
 

The funny part about it is I can't remember anything egregious from the crowd watching the OSU-Minnesota game on TV, in fact the big news story was the one guy being nice and giving his sign to Sullinger, but afterward there's a memo from the coach asking for better behavior ... yet after all the stuff that happened at the OSU-Wisconsin game ("Diebler swallows" chant audible on TV, Sullinger being spit on) the head coach says "deal with it" ... two very different approaches to sportsmanship there.
 

If anyone thinks Tubby isn't embarrassed by that type of behavior then you don't know Tubby. Everyone in the Barn with a maturity level higher than a Middle Schooler is embarrassed by it. It is just one more indication of declining standards of behavior and the dumbing down of society. Anyone with an IQ over 85 should be able to come up with more clever and effective chants without having to resort to the type profanity that causes parents with young children (and future Gopher fans) to regret bringing them to the game.[/QUOTE]

Why don't some people understand this. Sports used to be something that brought people/fans together.
 





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