Most of the paisanos recall that...it's an old school...like 1930s slur.

(09-29-2014 07:06 PM)Pirate1 Wrote:  Ok, am I the only person on the internet that didn't know 'Guinea' was a racial slur against Italian Americans? Never heard that in my 50 plus years......
Big Deal abut nothing..

Yes


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(09-29-2014 07:13 PM)firmbizzle Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 07:04 PM)CyberBull Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 06:35 PM)Cubanbull Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 06:33 PM)KNIGHTTIME Wrote:  I'm already bored with this scandal.

Not if it was happening at USF

I will just say that it's easy to to look up old posts from UCF fanslike KnightTime when the Leavitt scandal was heating up. Karma is a b!tch...

If GOL survives this there has to be some serious questions about the institutional moral compass. How many scandals can one coach have before they stop giving the guy the benefit of the doubt?

Can Teflon George survive yet another controversy?

That's why I say fire him.

He won't get fired but he might retire

(09-29-2014 06:43 PM)ncbeta Wrote:  Dang... I just finished this only to realize I'm way off. Hope someone finds it humorous.

I got excited thinking the Orlando Thunder were coming back

Why only sue for 15K? Was that a misprint, possibly? In this day & age of idiotic, crazy law suits for INSANE amounts of $, it just strikes me as odd to sue for so little.

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(09-29-2014 07:06 PM)Pirate1 Wrote:  Ok, am I the only person on the internet that didn't know 'Guinea' was a racial slur against Italian Americans? Never heard that in my 50 plus years......
Big Deal abut nothing..

I didn't know either.

(09-29-2014 07:06 PM)Bearcat2012 Wrote:  That didn't take long,......USA today.....


http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nca.../16453921/

a lot more info in that USA Today story

Oh please let it be UCF girls gone wild.

(09-29-2014 07:06 PM)Pirate1 Wrote:  Ok, am I the only person on the internet that didn't know 'Guinea' was a racial slur against Italian Americans? Never heard that in my 50 plus years......
Big Deal abut nothing..

I knew it vaguely, but I didn't know anyone actually cared that much about it.

(09-29-2014 07:04 PM)CyberBull Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 06:35 PM)Cubanbull Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 06:33 PM)KNIGHTTIME Wrote:  I'm already bored with this scandal.

Not if it was happening at USF

I will just say that it's easy to to look up old posts from UCF fanslike KnightTime when the Leavitt scandal was heating up. Karma is a b!tch...

If GOL survives this there has to be some serious questions about the institutional moral compass. How many scandals can one coach have before they stop giving the guy the benefit of the doubt?

Can Teflon George survive yet another controversy?

From afar, it is interesting watching the difference in the reaction of USF fans to UCF problems and visa versa.

I feel like we're all becoming an expert on how many people actually attend USF games since we get an almost weekly report from some posters. Frankly, I don't give a flip what the actual number of people in the stands is. The people that come are there and the people that don't aren't there. That's as complicated as it needs to be for me.

We all have differing issues to address or we'd be in the SEC/B1G/B12 etc. Taking joy in others' issues while I've got my own to deal with became a useless exercise for me a long time ago

(09-29-2014 07:17 PM)ncbeta Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 07:06 PM)Pirate1 Wrote:  Ok, am I the only person on the internet that didn't know 'Guinea' was a racial slur against Italian Americans? Never heard that in my 50 plus years......
Big Deal abut nothing..

I didn't know either.

At the turn of the century Irish who got to the cities a generation before the Italians and who themselves had been shat upon liked to lump Italians in with folks of African American descent so you got interesting combinations like guinea wop.

Very endearing....although the wop part was the only part that got my ancestors fighting...meant without papers and by gawd they came through Ellis Island.

Can't believe I wasted my time reading this

(09-29-2014 07:20 PM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 07:06 PM)Pirate1 Wrote:  Ok, am I the only person on the internet that didn't know 'Guinea' was a racial slur against Italian Americans? Never heard that in my 50 plus years......
Big Deal abut nothing..

I knew it vaguely, but I didn't know anyone actually cared that much about it.

IMO, It less that comment and more the other comments and labor law issues on how Ferraro's termination was handled.

(09-29-2014 07:23 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 07:17 PM)ncbeta Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 07:06 PM)Pirate1 Wrote:  Ok, am I the only person on the internet that didn't know 'Guinea' was a racial slur against Italian Americans? Never heard that in my 50 plus years......
Big Deal abut nothing..

I didn't know either.

At the turn of the century Irish who got to the cities a generation before the Italians and who themselves had been shat upon liked to lump Italians in with folks of African American descent so you got interesting combinations like guinea wop.

Very endearing....although the wop part was the only part that got my ancestors fighting...meant without papers and by gawd they came through Ellis Island.

Heard of wop through history class/channel/Wikipedia or some mess. I always thought that was the more common slur back in the day.

(09-29-2014 07:22 PM)oldtiger Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 07:04 PM)CyberBull Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 06:35 PM)Cubanbull Wrote:  

(09-29-2014 06:33 PM)KNIGHTTIME Wrote:  I'm already bored with this scandal.

Not if it was happening at USF

I will just say that it's easy to to look up old posts from UCF fanslike KnightTime when the Leavitt scandal was heating up. Karma is a b!tch...

If GOL survives this there has to be some serious questions about the institutional moral compass. How many scandals can one coach have before they stop giving the guy the benefit of the doubt?

Can Teflon George survive yet another controversy?

From afar, it is interesting watching the difference in the reaction of USF fans to UCF problems and visa versa.

I feel like we're all becoming an expert on how many people actually attend USF games since we get an almost weekly report from some posters. Frankly, I don't give a flip what the actual number of people in the stands is. The people that come are there and the people that don't aren't there. That's as complicated as it needs to be for me.

We all have differing issues to address or we'd be in the SEC/B1G/B12 etc. Taking joy in others' issues while I've got my own to deal with became a useless exercise for me a long time ago

What are you on about? Either you're suffering from an acute bout of Alzheimer's or you've totally lost your mind.

The point they were trying to make is that NIGHTTIME makes a mountain about every issue with USF no matter how insignificant it may be. Your post is either just that a mind melt or sucking up for UCF.

For the love of humanity seek help soon. By the way, where in this entire thread did anyone mention Game attendance.

Interesting that out of the man's long career this is the first open allegation of racism.

Man gets canned before even starting his job and accuses a coach who has Italian (Lorenzo Costatini) and African-American coaches in his staff of racism, where no one has accused him of racism in his long career.

Sounds legit.

Despite the fact that it's word against word.

Don't really see what the big deal is

Official response:

Quote:"UCF immediately investigated the allegations Mr. Ferraro made when he abruptly abandoned his job. The university's Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action office found the allegations to be untrue," said UCF Vice President for Communications and Marketing Grant Heston. "None of the individuals alleged to have been the subject of, or to have overhead, these supposed statements corroborated Mr. Ferraro's claims. In fact, until seeking compensation after abandoning his job, it does not appear he ever discussed this with anyone at UCF."

(09-29-2014 07:06 PM)Pirate1 Wrote:  Ok, am I the only person on the internet that didn't know 'Guinea' was a racial slur against Italian Americans? Never heard that in my 50 plus years......
Big Deal abut nothing..

Yes. You're one of the only people I've ever heard didn't know that. It's very offensive but not nearly as bad as what he said about African Americans.

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Lol at the over reaction. What's the big deal? We settle this out of open court and call it a day. O'Leary was once accused of killing a kid, this is nothing but a drop in the bucket compared to that.