U. Hawaii football coach fined, suspended for using gay slur
August 1, 2009 at 3:06 pm 1 comment
Last week, I blogged about some of the most LGBT-friendly football schools. That list didn’t include the University of Hawaii, and maybe for good reason.
Football coach Greg McMackin was suspended 30 days without pay and has now offered to take an additional 7 percent pay cut from his $1.1 million salary after he used the F-word, the gay slur, to describe a pregame dance the Notre Dame Fighting Irish did last season.
Hawaii and Notre Dame played each other in last season’s Hawaii bowl, where McMackin spotted the pregame dance. He has since apologized for the slur, but there’s been an uproar in both the sports world and the LGBT community, and that’s not limited to just the state of Hawaii.
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