Larry Cochell - JackAss Of The Week May 1st, 2005 - May 7th, 2005 - May 1st, 2005
For making racial comments about black players, i mean where does this guy get off for doing this! He is a complete jackass and should win it for the year
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The OU baseball team was without its head coach Friday night in an 8-1 loss to No. 5 Nebraska.
Head coach Larry Cochell was absent from L. Dale Mitchell Park due to allegations made by ESPN in its 6 p.m. broadcast of “SportsCenter.”
News came from ESPN to OU officials just two hours before Friday’s game that Cochell made racially insensitive comments in a private meeting with the network’s commentators prior to Tuesday night’s ESPN2/ESPNU televised game at Wichita State.
Cochell gave praise to freshman outfielder Joe Dunigan, a black student-athlete, during a pre-game chat with that night’s play-by-play commentator Gary Thorne, according to Josh Krulewitz, Director of Media Relations for ESPN.
According to an ESPN report, once Dunigan returned to the field, Cochell turned to Thorne and said, “There’s no n----- in him.”
Krulewitz said Thorne didn’t tell anyone until Friday morning when he discovered a similar comment had been made to analyst Kyle Peterson that same night.
According to ESPN, Cochell’s comment to Peterson was, “There are honkies and white people and there are n----- and black people. Dunigan is a good black kid.”
