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Kevin Sumlin (OC Maryland Terrapins)

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Bucky32 said:
In terms of plausability IMO:
1. An Aggie fan actually wrote it - everyone is familiar with that fanbase, right?
2. A fan from another program wrote it
3. Sumlin or someone in his family is lying

I don't really know that much about Sumlin but he seems like an ok dude, and I can't bring myself to believe that he or his wife ginned up a hoax like this. If that makes me naive, so be it.
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I have to believe that Sumlin didn't write it. His buyout is $11M, and such a stunt might give the aggy lawyers some ground to argue termination with cause and get out of the buyout.
 
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OSU_Buckguy said:
if you think black people are sub-human animals, then rooting for blacks playing a sport, especially a violent one, is hardly different from rooting for a rooster in a cockfight or a pitbull in a dog fight. i find very little cognitive dissonance in a white racist rooting for black athletes. blacks exhibiting athletic prowess only enforces this line of thinking from a white racist -- and even moreso when considering that owners, coaches, and quarterbacks are overwhelmingly white.
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Yep. As long as they play the good Mandingo fighter and not get all uppity like Jim Brown or Ali.
 
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Bucky32 said:
In terms of plausability IMO:
1. An Aggie fan actually wrote it - everyone is familiar with that fanbase, right?
2. A fan from another program wrote it
3. Sumlin or someone in his family is lying

I don't really know that much about Sumlin but he seems like an ok dude, and I can't bring myself to believe that he or his wife ginned up a hoax like this. If that makes me naive, so be it.
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OhioState001 said:
Yes this letter contained a racial slur but I'm willing to bet it's pretty common for coaches performing poorly to get death threats and other terrible messages. Don't really see this as particularity noteworthy. Just trying to drive more of the racial division method in this country. One dickhead writing a racist letter isn't really meaningful.
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THIS is a bad opinion.
 
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Reasons that indicate this is a hoax:
1.) Handwriting is likely a female, and an older one since it is in cursive.
2.) If this were an actual racist letter what are the chances the author would put a return address?
3.) The Houston County Club seems to be the perfect return address if someone were trying to frame this letter as being written by a rich white racist person. BTW the address is misspelled
4.) How many fans actually know the coaches home address?
5.) Why is the wife concerned about her kids opening the mail? Do her kids really open letters addressed to Kevin Sumlin? Or is she trying to get some emotional mileage out of this letter?
6.) Wife's twitter profile picture contains her wearing a t-shirt talking about how all races are one human race. Race is obviously a topic that is on her mind a lot.
7.) This seems to be the nicest hate mail ever with a random n-bomb dropped in the middle. "You suck as a coach" and "you can't win" "get lost".
8.) The timing is awfully convenient. Framing the Texas A&M fan base as hating Sumlin because he is black seems to be the only way that he could possibly keep his job at this point.
 
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I'm not saying it's impossible for someone to write a racist letter to Kevin Sumlin but there is enough red flags here that I really can't believe this one. I'm not the only person to notice these things either. Look around the internet
 
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