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Originally Posted by Reefman
Hey W. Just shows how progressive ULL is compared to other Universities in our area. Good to see minorities and alternative groups have their say whether you agree with them or not. Freedom is our greatest asset.
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Allow me to start this post by stating that I dont agree with celebrating that thug who was killed because he attacked a police officer. Anyone dumb enough to attack a police officer should not be surprised when they feel that hot 9mm round!
However, I do support freedom of speech, when it is peaceful and non-destructive. Not so much what they are doing in Furgeson.
After sifting through all of the uneducated, dumbass, ignorant statements made on this thread I don regret it because I found this great post! USL and now UL has always been the most progressive University in the South as far as equality and human rights geaux!
Anyone on here ever heard of Berryl Shipley?
He was just inducted into the Louisiana Athletics Hall of fame this year.
Not only did he have USL ranked in the top 5 consistently in the late 60's and early 70's, he also recruited the nation's leading scorer Bo Lamar and other great athletes!
However, those are not the greatest accomplishment that Coach Shipley is known for. He went against the grain, the Louisiana Government, the NCAA (or whatever it was called back then) and even the other coaches in his conference by being the first coach in the deep south to recruit and play black athletes in college athletics.
Coach Shipley and the University athletic program were attacked by all of the above for doing thi and punished severely but coach Shipley knew what the right thing to do was and never backed down from the racists who ran college athletics at the time.
You all can start your accusations about how he violated recruiting violations, but unless you have read the book "Slam Dunked" I will not bother to read or acknowledge your comments about Coach Shipley. The man was ahead of his time as far as equality goes and one hell of a basketball coach.
After reading A LOT of different books and articles on this subject I believe that there were some recruiting violations, no worse than what was going on at every other basketball powerhouse in that time, and more than likelt less severe. Shipley was attacked because he continued to recruit and play black players after he was instructed not to by the conference, the league, and the politicians....BOTTOM LINE!