Dallas Morning News is Throwing Lou Holtz Under the Bus for "Hip-Hop" Headline

Charlie Strong has officially become the new head coach of the Texas Longhorns. So like any good newspaper, when a major event like this happens for a relatively local school the Dallas Morning News ran with an article about him.

The article was good, and there was nothing inappropriate about it. The tweet that was used to send it out into the World Wide Web however....

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Here is the tweet:

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The hip hop reference has people up in arms because they are assuming that the paper is referring to him liking hip hop music because he is black.

Oh boy.

Rather than just apoligize and move on the paper decided to throw former coach-turned-commetator Lou Holtz under the bus:

Since many of you asked: If you read the quotes, Lou Holtz is the one quoted referring to charlie Strong as NOT "a hip-hop" coach
— Dallas Morning News (@dallasnews) January 5, 2014

Here's the comment in question:

"...He's great with players ... but he's not a hip-hop coach. He really, truly could have coached for (Ohio State's old-school taskmaster) Woody Hayes with no problem whatsoever."

Yeah, now that doesn't sound too good. To be fair, he could simply be equating hip-hop music with the young kids that make up a college football team, but when he references an old school, rough and tumble kind of guy like Wooody Hayes...

I don't know.

It is not the worst comment out there by far, but it was an ill-advised one for the Dallas Morning News to use.

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