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"It is enough for our purposes to say that what a word means is the missing
\nparts of the contexts from which it draws its delegated efficacy" (Richards 35). <\/p>\n

I promise this won’t become a basketball driveller’s weblog.  But it’s
\ntournament time; the television’s noise is turning a beat in my head, and it
\nwon’t quiet until I attempt this entry.  I saw Keith Dambrot’s name scroll
\non the
\nticker Wednesday night<\/a>, and I had to take it up.  Why should Keith Dambrot matter to me?  I hadn’t had a thought about him in years.  He
\nwas in his first year as the hoops coach at Central Michigan U. when I was a
\nfreshman in 1992.  I tried out as walk-on.  Didn’t make the cut. 
\nActually, nobody did.  He didn’t take one player from the tryout to add
\ndepth to his short bench that season. Just as well.<\/p>\n

After two seasons, Dambrot was dumped (following
\nprotests<\/a>) for tossing around "motivational"
\nracial epithets during a halftime rant at Miami (Ohio), in the midst of a game
\nwhen the Chippewas’ former coach, Charlie Coles and his team were putting a
\nwhoopin’ on CMU (a
\nprovocative entry<\/a> on language control at
\nCritical Mass<\/a>).  Who knows exactly how the talk came together in the
\nlocker room that night? According to what reports came of it, none of the
\nplayers objected. Of course, in such power-loaded arrangements, open democratic
\ndiscourse doesn’t always surface.  The awful terms of Dambrot’s speech were leaked to the media and declared an event<\/i>, a
\nhappening<\/i>. The
\neventual ruling<\/a>–Dambrot’s ill-advised choice of
\nwords could<\/i> cost him his job–rumbled through the academy as if on
\ntsunami of
\nfree speech defense, countered by an undertow of good sense (sure<\/i>,
\nthere’s a lot more to it).  Here I don’t want to dodge the wave or diminish the
\nexigency of free speech in the academy and beyond.  But I do find it
\nincredibly difficult to put faith in Dambrot’s judgment, sensitivity,
\nwherewithal, and suitability to return to such prominent coaching ranks. 
\nIn short, I wouldn’t want my son to play for him, and I guess that’s the measure
\nof my concern at this news. And it’s why I was surprised to see that he was
\npromoted to head coach at the University of Akron after one season–a mediocre
\nseason at that–with the Zips.  It’s got me wondering about how he
\nrecovered esteemed standing and privileged rank.  I know he was incredibly successful as a
\ncoach at Ashland before heading to Mt. Pleasant and CMU, and I know his most
\nrecent stint was as an assistant for the high school program from which LeBron
\nJames turned to the NBA last year.  Others from that high school team are
\nfreshmen at Akron this season.<\/p>\n

I suppose it’s worth noting that I’ve been thinking about Dambrot’s recovery
\nfrom an egregious linguistic past while reading the middle chapters in I.A
\nRichards’ The Philosophy of Rhetoric<\/i>.  It’s the source of the line I
\ndropped to lead this thing off.  Richards is concerned, in places, with
\nwhat he calls
\nUsage Doctrine.  About Usage Doctrine, he says this: "It can say and
\ntruly, for example, that we learn how to use words from responding to them and
\nnoting how other people use them" (54).  From here, Richards sifts
\nsome important distinctions.  One problem of acute conformity (narrow delineations
\nof meaning) is "that it takes the senses of an author’s words to be things we
\nknow before we read him, fixed factors with which he has to build up the meaning
\nof his sentences as a mosaic is put together of discrete independent tesserae. 
\nInstead, [the senses] are resultants which we arrive at only through the
\ninterplay of the interpretive possibilities of the whole utterance" (55). 
\nThis is challenging because, in one sense, we don’t know Dambrot’s "whole utterance." 
\nBut it also applies to the sprawling significations of the utterance we do<\/i> know,
\nits exhausting range of meanings and usages which expose roots in hatred and inhumanity. More from Richards
\n(on interanimation and sentence context, but I’m adapting it another way for the
\nheckuvit): "But in most prose, and more than we ordinarily suppose, the opening
\nwords have to wait for those that follow to settle what they shall mean–if
\nindeed that ever gets settled."  I can’t think of anything profound to
\nwrite,
\nbut I have this: Meaning is conditioned by time and place.  Semiotics and rhetorics
\nbear, among many qualities, spatiality and temporality.  And this, as I see it,
\nundergirds Dambrot’s hirability at Akron.  He has a great local reputation in
\nnortheastern Ohio where his rhetorical legacy in mid-Michigan has been–in these
\nten years since–overhauled by a surprisingly powerful ethos, made over by
\nsocial\/regional heroism, a winning record in well-liked programs (this season at
\nAkron excluded), and access to elite recruiting channels.  And it is
\npossible that he has done a whole lot more to transform his serious flub into a
\nforgivable mistake.  I don’t know much about that, which is why the
\nticker-tape gave me pause.  And which is why I’ll watch with curiosity what
\ndevelops in Akron, Ohio in the years ahead, knowing that I "have to wait for
\nthose that follow to settle what they shall mean–if indeed that ever gets
\nsettled." <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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