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Ave Maria University’s men’s basketball coach Ricky Benitez was fired on Tuesday, and the reason he claims he was given for the dismissal was for “the use of profanity in a scrimmage”.
(When asked by PFB for a comment, Allen Iverson said “Practice, man. We talkin’ bout practice.”)
According to the story, one of the players’ parents complained to the administration about Benitez’s language, prompting the university to ask Benitez to resign. Benitez refused to resign, saying, “This is one of the main reasons Catholic people have a bad reputation. They don’t abide by the rules in the bible.”
[He was probably referring to paragraph B of Rule 7.12 in the Book of Esther, which reads, "Thou shalt not fire coaches for swearing in scrimmage games"]
As for the complaining parent, he thinks there’s something else going on here, “It didn’t call for the man to lose his job…Maybe reprimanded, maybe fined or something. There had to be another agenda.”
When he was hired for the job, the administration said of him, “There’s no one else I have spoken with that has had as much head coaching experience and that has the winning percentage he has. I believe he’s a very strong man of faith, which will fit in well at Ave Maria.”
According to the big W, Ave Maria University is a private university with a Roman Catholic character and liturgical tradition in southwest Florida, founded in 2003 by Tom Monaghan, Catholic philanthropist and retired founder of Domino’s Pizza.
Here’s to hoping the Ave Maria basketball team can figure out this mess so their season can avoid the noid.
(h/t: Naples News via Deadpsin.com)
Tags: Catholicism, cussing