McMackin Apolgizes for Mcstake

Hawaii coach takes voluntary pay cut
AP

HONOLULU -- Hawaii coach Greg McMackin was suspended for 30 days without pay and has volunteered to take an additional 7 percent pay cut from his $1.1 million salary for making a derogatory comment while describing Notre Dame's chant before last year's Hawaii Bowl.

In a room full of players, assistant coaches and boosters, a tearful McMackin addressed reporters late Friday after meeting with school officials for several hours.

"I just want to say I made a big mistake. I want to apologize to everyone and anyone that I offended with my remarks," he said. "I'm committed to do whatever I can to use this as a life lesson to learn from my mistake. When we make mistakes, we have to learn from it and make better people of ourselves."



In total, McMackin will lose roughly $169,000 from his salary this year. But the real damage seems to be to his reputation and to the university.

Greg McMackin cried throughout the last half of his press conference and abruptly left after he was finished reading his prepared statement, writes ESPN.com's Graham Watson Blog.

Wiping away tears from his swollen-red eyes, McMackin said he's offended the gay and lesbian community and now he wants to work with them to use the incident as a "teachable moment for me and hopefully others."

"I should've never brought Notre Dame's program up in my interview," McMackin said. "I'm sorry that I said something so hurtful and I'm very remorseful."

Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis on Friday said the Fighting Irish program was offended by the comments but has accepted his apology and will move on.

"Coach McMackin demonstrated poor judgment when, while making comments critical of our football program, he used a derogatory word," Weis said in a statement. "Speaking only for our football program, we were offended by the remarks."

I knew this was probably coming. You can't say something that stupid and not get reprimanded especially considering Hawaii's short leash with the gay community. When Hawaii dropped the Rainbow Warriors to just Warriors there were many offended gays.

What does piss me off about this is Charlie Weis having to insert himself into the story and make it about Notre Dame. This is between McMackin, Hawaii football and the gay community. He didn't make fun of fat people so Charlie Weis can just take a chill pill or have a botched gastric bypass surgery or something. I hate him but it is a nice segway for our next LSUFreek video. Here it is.