The Hamilton Spectator

GM should step aside

- RE: Ticat coaching controvers­y

Remember the stadium debacle? Both sides stating at the beginning that no one wanted to end up back at Ivor Wynne, only to end up back at Ivor Wynne, because Scott Mitchell believed he could blackmail the city with a threat to take his excellent team to greener pastures if he didn’t get his tailgate Valhalla next to a major highway? Remember the almost-Aldershot Ticats?

The same Scott Mitchell whose compassion for bros is so deep he will try to rehabilita­te the career of Art Briles, a self-styled staunch churchgoin­g man of faith who didn’t feel it necessary to report the at-least 52 rapes committed by 31 of his players to authoritie­s, who indeed tried to cover up several cases of rape and assault.

The same Scott Mitchell who felt no awkwardnes­s announcing his act of compassion on a day the Cats held a women’s clinic for female fans. Good job, Scott. Sports Illustrate­d has dubbed the Ticats “apparently the most tone-deaf franchise in the world.”

Scott should show similar compassion to women and to Ticat fans by joining Mr. Briles in Bro-Halla. Owen Mahoney, Dundas

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