I’m glad you lost that game.

You must have missed the joke.

Yeah, I was ready to gnash my teeth and oil the torch, but he was candid and reasonable, here.

The headline suggests that he’s the one that called it a “distraction” but I don’t think this is an example of the usual “coach downplays seriousness of a rape because basketball is more important” thing. The reporter ASKED if it was a distraction, and he basically responded, “Yes it is, but the police’s work in…

This headline, while scrupulously accurate, reads kind of clickbaity to me. I rushed in here ready to unload my spiel about the evils of big time college sports and the assholes who coach it, but in the excerpts here Self comes across pretty well, I think. He answers the distraction question in a way that at least…