Fried Rocky Mountain Oysters

Anyone who knows me, knows that I can have a bit of an evil streak. Many times that evil is justified. Many is the time when I've cursed the 8th amendment for tying our hands. Example: Tim McVey should not have been executed. His true punishment should have been to be locking in an 8x10 room, 50 feet below the surface, with no lights. A small door would have allowed bread and water to be given every day until he died of scurvy or some other nasty disease. The true punishment would have been to allow the world to forget him. But, because this might be considered "cruel and unusual" we would have had to just store him in a maximum security prison where he would have full access to proper food, medical attention, and cable TV. Stupid system.

Anyway, McVey is not the true point of this post. This morning, I was reading Three Hell, a blog run by one my fiancee's law school friends, Mer Mer. Mer Mer had a good rant going on about Gary Barnett, football coach at Colorado. I must say that many of the things she says are correct, but I don't think they go far enough. The fact that the university used sex, alcohol, and strippers doesn't bother me. Most of us have been to college and I believe we would all be fools not to recognize that many of these things go on with frats to begin with. That the university uses it to lure football players is just another rung on the decadence ladder, which college allows most people to climb.

However, rape is another issue. I take a very strong objection to anyone (male or female) forcing someone in that way. I also feel that our laws are not Draconian enough to stem this problem (Ohh, you raped a woman. Well, just pay this fine and we'll have to put you in prison for a couple of years, or maybe just probation). Anyone found guilty of rape should be taken to a public place and have his balls hacked off (see Turkish scene in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves). Then you sear the wound with a hot iron to make sure he doesn't bleed to death. If the shock doesn't kill him, he'll have to live the rest of his life as a eunich. I'm sure we could devise something suitable in the instances of a female rapist as well.

Now, what about Barnett. He's either guilty of accessory and supression of sexual harassment and assault, or he's only the most ignorant, oblivious coach I've ever seen. I tend to favor the former as most coaches know more about their players than they will readily admit. So, in order to protect his own arse, as well as his players, he lies, covers up sexual misconduct, and then has the gall to claim that he's the victim in all this. The man should be fired and then tarred and feathered at the least.

The really disgusting thing is that even if Barnett is fired, he will probably be flapping in the wind for a couple of years and then get hired by some college who choses to remember the Northwestern program, but forget the Colorado one. I wish the NCAA would put up a program for coaches that when they show, at best, extremely poor judgement and, at worst, complicity in criminal acts, they should be permanently banned from sport. Period. It probably won't happen, but here's hoping.