“If that baseball was instead a man, he’d be charged with attempted murder.”

Wow, Miami of Ohio grads are a bit oversensitive about the name of their school.

But unless Ichiro collects 1,277 more major league hits (which, honestly, isn’t as outlandish as it superficially appears to be)

Oh! So you’re saying that it’s *possible* that I was calling Tillman a dick(I wasn’t), so you’ll cover that base in such a way as to imply that I was.

Do you have a larger point you’re trying to make here, or are you just swinging wildly?

“So you think Pat Tillman could be a dick”

Title Whine

“See? This is why women shouldn’t play sports! They cry and quit when a coach is even a little bit hard on them.” - my uncle, probably

Free from criticism is not the same thing as being officially sanctioned by a university for something you said in a private conversation.

Nobody is saying they should be free from criticism. The question raised in the OP is whether it’s the school’s place to adjudicate personal communications among students.

That's a pretty dumb idea of what constitutes private.

This was not a “crowded” place. It was private text messages. A public university is bound by the 1st Amendment.

Don’t promote child sex and don’t escort while being a PR agent for a corporation. Is that so hard?

“If I suck at it, it’s not my fault. I’m not qualified to be President.”

I am promoting your comment, hoping it makes it’s way up above all this nonsense.