WAC Football Preview 2009: News and notes from Day Two

by Kevan Lee on Jul 30, 2009 2:55 PM PDT in Boise State football Comment 5 comments

Media days in Salt Lake City came to an end today, but not before Hawaii head coach Greg McMackin offended millions, Idaho head coach Robb Akey cracked some jokes, and I made a discovery that will change my life forever. Please do read on. (Here's Day One if you missed it.)

Greg McMackin should maybe sit this next one out and stop talking for awhile

McMackin made waves in today's session by using the term "faggot" to describe a team dance that Notre Dame performed at a Hawaii Bowl banquet last December. And then, tragically, he kept on talking.

"Don't write that 'faggot' down. I was misquoted," he said. "Just please … cover for me," McMackin said Thursday. "Go ahead, say ‘faggot dance.’ No. Please cover for me on that, too — right Karl [Benson, the WAC commissioner]? I’ll deny it. Anything else?"

Uh...Whammy?

via s.bebo.com

McMackin came back out later to apologize for reals. I'm not sure it stuck.

The opinion of pretty much everyone in the media and across the Internets is that McMackin shouldn't have used the term. Well, duh. Even he knew he shouldn't have used it. What's worse is that he thought he could get away with it by asking the media on hand to just forget about it. Not likely. Troy Oppie is a cold-blooded killah.

And to think, Karl Benson had spent so much time getting traction for WAC football in the homosexual community.

(Note: Get a load of ESPN's headline choice for the story. Click for larger view.)

This exists

Why? I don't know. But I'm following it.

Robb Akey laughs so he won't cry

Apparently, the Akeystache was in fine form at media days today, telling stories, making jokes, and largely hiding the fact that he is 3-21 as coach of the Vandals.

Per Brian Murphy:

(Akey) sometimes has his team eat its meals out of bowls to reinforce its goal of reaching a bowl game.

Unbelievable.

"I expect to be able to fulfill my contract. I expect to sign a new contract before that one runs out," said Akey, who is in the third year of a five-year deal. "I hope they can afford me."

Kind of funny.

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ESPN and Graham already used a little “find & replace” to amend the McMackin headline. They also censored the offensive word he used to “f——- dance.”
If you hadn’t read the story somewhere else you would think he was dropping f bombs. Which is probably what the Hawaii adminstrators wish he would have done instead.

"...he could have run for 500 yards if only the end zone hadn't kept getting in the way"

by MKingery on Jul 30, 2009 3:09 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

When you look at the picture above...

You’d think that McMackin and Wies were cut from the same cloth.

The Intern

by OBNUG Intern on Jul 30, 2009 3:14 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Always accurate...

Graham’s twitter account broke the news that McMackin used a “racial slur”.

by Drew Roberts on Jul 30, 2009 5:20 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Racial?

I don’t remember seeing “Gay” on the list of races on the last form that I had to fill out…the last time that I had to fill out a form that listed races.

by GoodHandsMan on Jul 30, 2009 5:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

My question is,

what was the line of questioning that got him on this rant?

Seriously, what truth serum was he on? It seemed like an episode of, The Cleaner and he was in the back on the bed, spilling his guts before he sobers up.

Sputtering sentence fragments about pregame antics from more than eight months ago?

I’m wondering if he’d been practicing this in the mirror for weeks, in between sips of diet Coke and cartons of Lean Hot Pockets.

Too much…its just too much…

Boise State - The best in all the land (The "land" being Idaho, and large parts of California, Oregon, and Nevada.)

by Mikrino on Jul 31, 2009 7:03 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs