02/08/2004: 
Stuff That Doesn't Suck
U.S. coach says football "sex" parties needed
With just a touch of "Criminally Absurd"
By Keith Coffman, Reuters
BOULDER, Colorado (Reuters) - The head football coach at the University of Colorado has told a former colleague it would be harder to recruit star athletes if the school did not show them a good time and take them to sex parties.
"If recruits aren't being shown these type of activities ... it would be a recruiting disadvantage," Robert Chichester, a former associate athletic director at the university, quoted head coach Gary Barnett as having told him.
"If alcohol happened to be there, Coach Barnett never really voiced an opinion to me that that was objectionable," Chichester said in the deposition released by the university.
I wonder if this extends to other areas of college recruitment? You could have every potential computer science major in the country clammering to get into even the worst of colleges. Nerds everywhere would be dying to get into Kabul Community College (Go, KCC!) if you threw them recruitment sex parties.
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Barnett has denied he condoned such behaviour among his players or that he ignored the allegations when they first came to light. At least two of his football players said in their depositions that Barnett repeatedly warned his players about drinking alcohol.The depositions were taken as part of a lawsuit filed by three women who claim they were raped at or after a December 2001 off-campus recruiting party attended by high school recruits.
Last week Gov. Bill Owens told the university to investigate or he would launch a separate probe.
On Friday, university president Elizabeth Hoffman announced a panel headed by two former state legislators would investigate the recruiting party and report back to the university's board of regents by April 30.
In early 2002, Boulder County District Attorney Mary Keenan declined to file charges over the rape claims at the 2001 party. But this week, Keenan told a Denver newspaper she would reopen the sexual assault investigation to see if any new information gleaned from the depositions could result in the filing of criminal charges.
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Sunday the 8th of February, crazywriterinla noted:
shit, I woulda gone to ITT Tech if they showed me sex parties.
Monday the 9th of February, Abe Froman noted:
I've seen a lot of crazt stuff, but I tend to think that this reporter is being fed a line, here. Are there a lot of sluts in college? Of course. Are kids today engaging in more risky sexual behavior than say in our time? Sure. Is there an ocasional orgy at the local university? Most definitely. But I tend to think that quote-end quote "Sex Parties" are just this reporters fasinatiion. We all like the idea of picturing a half dozen coed's f@%king every guy in the room. But unless your paying them 400 a piece it ain't gonna happen. Its hard enough to get one girl in bed, never mind six. I think it makes for good college folk lore. I think this guy has spent too much time on the internet looking at lightspeed university.
