Sometimes, the coach has to stand up for common decency.

The Oregon coach could have warned the fans he would forfeit the game if the obscene and out-of-bounds jeering didn't stop.

Or, he could have threatened to empty the arena, and played the game before an empty house, despite the loss of revenue.

It's not even a question of authority, it's a moral judgment.

Many of these fans and students forget that these athletes are just like
them: human beings. How would those fans feel if Love made remarks like that towards something they love to do? Sure you can root against the opposing team, but not in such a way that it???s offensive and racial!

What's great about college basketball is that it's emotionally charged. What's wrong with college basketball is that it is emotionally charged.

Kevin Love grew up an U of O fan. His dad Stan starred there. Oregon was a close second in recruiting, but Kevin made a very personal (and also business) decision to attend UCLA. It just was way too personal for the Oregon fans to attack him and his family.

Boo players if you have to...but the personal stuff is out of bounds. In the end, I know Kevin...he couldn't have handled the situation any better. But obscene and homophobic comments should have no place at a "kid friendly" college basketball game.

Marc Isenberg
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Why is the national office staff being used for making "questions of the day"? This is a waste of resources. We already have espn.com.

Jim, perhaps a better question is, why are you wasting our time by posting a non sequitur comment to a question that is as important as this? These questions of the day are intended to make people think and debate the issues impacting intercollegiate athletics. Clearly someone at the National Office understands and appreciates the merit of this conversation.

To the larger point, the comments in Oregon were despicable and should not have been tolerated by anyone present. The world of sports should be one without concern for sexual preference, gender, race or religion. It should be a level playing field where everyone feels welcome. It's time we all stand up and decry homophobia as what it is, hate speech.

Waste of resources asking a question that involves a student athlete, the well being of the student athlete, and a university student body?

For some strange reason, I believe they built an organization to help student athletes, rules, governance, and fair play ??? an organization that looks at these incidents. I forget the acronym for it...

Are we to believe that issues of race, sexuality, sportsmanship, and student athletes should have no place online with the NCAA? Oh yea, that's the acronym I was looking for...

For generating a dialogue with the students and the NCAA membership, the 'question of day' seems to be a valid form of communication, wouldn???t you agree? I mean, I am responding to your off-hand comment. With the majority of the student body of any university becoming more entrenched in online environments, this 'waste of time' has merits in engaging this generation of student athletes.

ESPN.com, si.com, someothersportsnewsoulet.com all have these, but where else can a person engage in a forum where the NCAA national office, its membership, and student athletes congregate and look for answers?

Waste of resources ??? please. If the NCAA wasn???t interested in listening to students and membership about this incident, then there would be a problem.

Mr. Cleveland, your post sounds like an older man yelling at kids to get off his lawn musing about 'the good ol days' when there wasn't the 'internets.'