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   Reminder, three Oklahoma negroes shot an Australian baseball   
   player in the back last summer.  Something needs to be done   
   about these black criminals.   
      
   When will white liberal Democrats get the message and stop   
   sucking black penises to appease animals?   
      
   When Oklahoma State’s Marcus Smart shoved a Texas Tech fan   
   Saturday night, it burst a college basketball bubble.   
      
   Though players routinely hear negative talk from the stands,   
   some of it especially personal, few ever have reacted like Smart.   
      
   Now Smart is suspended for three games, and college basketball   
   coaches across the country have another issue to face.   
      
   “I’m sure that every coach in the country is going to be   
   reminding their team of it today, if they didn’t yesterday,”   
   Indiana coach Tom Crean said during today’s Big Ten   
   teleconference. “Treat the barbs and treat all of that as just   
   faceless and nameless, the better you’re going to be. Again,   
   that’s hard to do. It’s very, very hard to do. It’s very easy to   
   talk about it. It’s a lot harder to actually do it, because you   
   want people to have an incredibly competitive spirit when   
   they’re playing. It doesn’t matter if you’re a coach or you’re a   
   player, it’s very, very hard to turn that off. And if you turn   
   it off too quickly, you don’t win games.”   
      
   There are many hostile environments in the Big Ten. With the   
   exception of Penn State and Northwestern, nearly every Big Ten   
   venue is full and raucous. And even in State College, the   
   student section produces a sheet of paper with personal details   
   about the players for verbal attacks, some which echo off the   
   empty seats.   
      
   But players are consistently reminded to tune out what they hear   
   when they head into certain venues.   
      
   Northwestern coach Chris Collins was a Duke player and a   
   longtime assistant coach and said he remembered “numerous times”   
   that Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski had to tell the Cameron Crazies   
   to back down.   
      
   But on the road, he had less control.   
      
   “We were in a lot of hostile environments and we would always   
   talk to our players about, ‘No matter what is said, no matter   
   what is done, you have to walk away,’” Collins said. “A lot of   
   times, the line is crossed. Things are said about your family,   
   things are said about you, and your initial instinct is to want   
   to (act on) fighting words. When you’re in this position and the   
   limelight the way these athletes are, you’ve got to know that’s   
   part of it.”   
      
   A number of the Big Ten coaches today also cited the rise of   
   social media and the problems that has created.   
      
   “You never get away from it,” Michigan State coach Tom Izzo   
   said. “You go there and you get chewed on, and that’s normal and   
   you can take that. You get on the bus and you’re getting chewed   
   on by their fans or your fans (on social media). Telling a kid   
   not to read his phone is like telling him not to breathe. That’s   
   a whole new problem.”   
      
   Izzo said he reminds his players to be prepared when they go to   
   hostile environments such as Duke, Indiana and Michigan. But   
   those aren’t extreme.   
      
   “I don’t think it’s over and above,” he said. “I think it’s the   
   added pressures that these kids are under now that they never   
   get away from is doing more damage than a fan in the stands.”   
      
   While Smart apparently was set off by a personal comment, it’s   
   difficult to legislate or anticipate what fans will say. So it’s   
   on the players to control their reaction.   
      
   “I’ve been around awhile and I’ve seen a lot of stuff and I’m   
   shocked that this is the first time something like this has   
   happened,” Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said. “Based on what I’ve   
   heard, I’m surprised it hasn’t happened more.”   
      
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