Greg McDermott Suspension, Etc...

[mel ott]

Mac is back. AD Rasmussen stated in his release that " McCermott has been reinstated fully for all team related activities, including this week's Big East Tournament."


https://twitter.com/Creighton/status/13 ... 19588?s=20

[Bogg]

All that hand wringing over the state of the country and a full-on delve into political commentary because a 7-figure (In Nebraska!) employee who F'd up at work had to apologize and serve a one-game suspension.....

Greg got off light, for as badly as people wanted to sell the idea that he was some sort of martyr.

[mel ott]

All that hand wringing over the state of the country and a full-on delve into political commentary because a 7-figure (In Nebraska!) employee who F'd up at work had to apologize and serve a one-game suspension.....

Greg got off light, for as badly as people wanted to sell the idea that he was some sort of martyr.

lighten up, Francis. You obviously have a problem with Nebraska- both of your comments in this thread include " a seven figure in Nebraska". Yeah, there are several of those guy in Omaha. Have you ever been there? You and FDS seem like you would be great buddies.

[Bogg]

All that hand wringing over the state of the country and a full-on delve into political commentary because a 7-figure (In Nebraska!) employee who F'd up at work had to apologize and serve a one-game suspension.....

Greg got off light, for as badly as people wanted to sell the idea that he was some sort of martyr.

lighten up, Francis. You obviously have a problem with Nebraska- both of your comments in this thread include " a seven figure in Nebraska". Yeah, there are several of those guy in Omaha. Have you ever been there? You and FDS seem like you would be great buddies.

You know how much Nebraska you can buy making $1 million+ a year? A tremendous amount. Most of it, even. The Civilization-to-Nebraska exchange rate is wild.

[Hall2012]

Pretty much confirms he wouldn't have been suspended at all had they beaten Nova and made Saturday's game meaningful.

[Omaha1]

All that hand wringing over the state of the country and a full-on delve into political commentary because a 7-figure (In Nebraska!) employee who F'd up at work had to apologize and serve a one-game suspension.....

Greg got off light, for as badly as people wanted to sell the idea that he was some sort of martyr.

lighten up, Francis. You obviously have a problem with Nebraska- both of your comments in this thread include " a seven figure in Nebraska". Yeah, there are several of those guy in Omaha. Have you ever been there? You and FDS seem like you would be great buddies.

You know how much Nebraska you can buy making $1 million+ a year? A tremendous amount. Most of it, even. The Civilization-to-Nebraska exchange rate is wild.

What’s funny is that at one point not long ago Omaha had more millionaires per capita than any city in the US due to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.

[billyjack]

After almost a week of mulling this over, I'll try to put my thoughts down here as sensitively as possible...

I'm happy that G McD didn't lose his job. Hopefully due to this, Creighton (really all 11 of us in our areas) works on expanding outreach into the African American community in Omaha, maybe offers more scholarships (under 5% of the student body is African American), makes a point of giving minority students more of a voice than they may already do.

As far as racism in America, which is alive and well, and which we'll be looking at head-on with the Chauvin-Minneapolis trial this week...

...the few on this thread that freaked out about a maple syrup company changing its name, or a late author's foundation deciding to discontinue the printing of 6 of his unknown books, or some a-hole Confederate general's statue, etc...

I would say dial it back on fighting for the cause of inanimate objects like bottles of high-fructose corn syrup on your breakfast table, and put more stock in actual humans... try to honestly learn why people are pissed and why people are demonstrating.

...like the guy who had his neck knelt on for 8 minutes til death-- let's hope there's some accountability ... or the fact that Georgia is currently trying to make it harder for blacks to vote (limiting voting stations, making it a crime to provide food and water for people waiting in line for 6 hours)-- let's support keeping that from happening ... or the fact that 2 months ago the losing candidate tried to kill his VP and "cancel" the election-- let's keep that from possibly being attempted again... once again, accountability.

I think that would make this G McDermott situation end up as a teachable moment that actually helps us understand each other better.

[MUBoxer]

What’s funny is that at one point not long ago Omaha had more millionaires per capita than any city in the US due to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.

I don't know whether this is true but it doesn't change that Nebraska's cost of living is 10-11% lower than the national average cost of living meaning that his point about millionaires buying most of Nebraska holds some water.

For the record the only reason I know that is my Fiancé's family is from Nebraska and her dad has pushed hard to move their family back there.

[Omaha1]

What’s funny is that at one point not long ago Omaha had more millionaires per capita than any city in the US due to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway.

I don't know whether this is true but it doesn't change that Nebraska's cost of living is 10-11% lower than the national average cost of living meaning that his point about millionaires buying most of Nebraska holds some water.

For the record the only reason I know that is my Fiancé's family is from Nebraska and her dad has pushed hard to move their family back there.

Won’t dispute that Omaha is a pretty good place to live and cost of living helps in that regard. Our state is really Omaha (congressional district 2 which voted for Biden) and the entire rest of the state which is largely rural.

[TBC Alum]

Josh Jones, a former player for Mac, opened up for the Omaha paper:
https://omaha.com/sports/college/creighton/what-happened-greg-mcdermotts-words-dont-jibe-with-the-man-former-jay-josh-jones-knows/article_45939348-7fde-11eb-a0fa-63363f9f2110.html
Powerful read