Posted on 11/10/2015 10:20:38 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
* Football players boycotted, and essentially forced the tumbling of Mizzou’s power structure
* All across the country, college administrators are taking notice and some are scared
* The power dynamics in a billion dollar industry are changing
COLUMBIA —
The intention, presumably, was to show strength and solidarity.
On the surface, Missouri's two most powerful athletics officials did that in a press conference here on Monday. Gary Pinkel, the football coach, talked of supporting his players. Mack Rhoades, the athletics director, talked of using an extraordinary last few days to improve life on campus.
But underneath all of that is a layer of fear, which is an awkward look for those used to power. The fear is here at the state's flagship university the same as it is growing at Kansas and Kansas State and every other school across the country in the billion dollar business of major college sports.
This is a major moment. College sports, or at least the power dynamics within college sports, will never be quite the same. Coaches and administrators can be divided into two categories: those who adjust the way they deal with athletes, and those who will struggle and even lose their jobs because they refuse....
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
if I was a university administrator and the Athletic department pulled what they pulled. I would call a meeting of the College bored and try and convince them that this has to be faced head on even if it means canceling football for the next couple years. then if I had the bored of directors on my side I would inform all the scholarship players that if they did not show up they would loose there scholarships and any player not showing up for games and practice will be cut permanently no exceptions. I would then have a meeting with the staff and inform the athletic department that if any statement is made to the Media by some one claiming to speak for more then themselves or they will be fired.
Arkansas Razorbacks will play them in 3 weeks. Talk of Fayetteville (2 hours south of Mizzoo) is to run the scores up on them and chase them out of town.
Racist episode one occurs on campus in March...they figure out the punk...charge him...destruction of property in the deal...kicked out.
Racist episode two occurs in October, in a bathroom of a male dorm....nazi swastika drawn on a wall with feces (don’t ask). No suspects this time. This gets traction via social media. Oddly NO Jews complain....only black population.
Football team members (mostly minority) threatens to sit out practice and not play. Coach says he agrees.
President of university quits. Everyone is happy. Nazi swastika in feces episode is finished now. Obviously will never find the guy (or gal), and it doesn’t matter anymore.
Big game on 21 Nov with Tenn at local stadium....expect Tenn fans to show up and chant the n-phrase (the German word), and get everyone hyped up for riots (again with no Jews). It’s a comical soap opera now.
Note, NCAA has said nothing, but if heck happens at the 21 Nov game....expect them to cancel team’s season at that point.
This is freaky beyond belief. First of all, most of the black and other people getting hysterical about this can’t even identify what they’re upset about, and secondly, the only reason these barely literate football players - most of whom probably shouldn’t even be in college - have any leverage is because there will be a $1 million dollar fine levied on the university if they don’t play their game.
So that was the price on the head of the administrator, who in the opinion of the “activists” didn’t respond quickly enough to a couple of odd events: a swastika drawn on a dorm wall (I’m not even sure it was a black dorm), and a student who supposedly left a racist rant open on a computer. I’m not sure why the first one was considered anti-black, and the details on the second “offense” are a little murky. While the administration said the usual things, apparently they didn’t do enough...but what “enough” wouldn’t been, I can’t imagine. Maybe haul out all the white students and faculty and shoot them?
It was a major mistake, in my opinion, for the university to do this.
I don’t know all the issues. But apparently if your football team gets a wild hair and decides you aren’t doing enough for minorities, they can boycott. That shuts down the football program, costing the schools major funds. And the school’s boards will throw you under the bus if that happens.
That sums it up nicely.
The colleges are reaping what they have sown.
"admit white privledge" - Id admit to white work ethic
What parent who strives to raise decent, law abiding children would let their child go to Missouri after this? And those are the folks who pay the bills.
What is wrong with those folks in Missouri? They should close the school if a bunch of thugs (who even knows if they're primarily students) set policy.
I love it!
How do I boycott them? I don’t currently attend any or watch them on TV. I guess that means that I am on the leading edge of the “boycott college sports” movement.
Once the donors and alumni start leaving, it is over. First thing that will go is Division 1 football. That’s several million dollars down the drain. Next thing to go is white students. No point on being there if there is blatant discrimination against you. Not at 50k per year. Finally, tuition and fees will skyrocket because you need more teachers to teach more minority tolerant liberal arts classes and not enough paying students to support it.
In the end, like everything else libs touch, it will fall apart under its own weight, with the blame going to Republicans. Who like everything else libs break had nothing to do with this.
Schools need to de-link their funding from the football team. Otherwise their fate is in the hands of 105 jocks who up until now didn’t know how much power they can wield.
Yep....when the natives were doing their native dance after the President resigned, it looked like the Zulu warriors dancing after the Battle of Isandlwana
Missouri REALLY screwed the pooch with this ordeal. BLM smells blood in the water and a few more white scalps is what they want.....spread across the country.
“You could not pay me to go to a game an cheer on these idiots.”
You hit the nail on the head. By going and cheering for these idiots, by tuning in and watching them with mind numbing rapt attention, by paying outrageous prices for tickets and on and on, people who have nothing to offer but athletic prowess and not much else are being empowered to influence far beyond their knowledge, value or credibility.
Being a good athlete or actor does not make one a paragon of social order or much of anything else. Most of these people are extremely lucky because if they didn’t get paid huge sums for doing what they do they would be digging ditches or some other menial task requiring more brawn than brains or waiting tables something that requires more personality than ability.
What are we for paying attention these people, for fawning over them FOOLS? Hell yes.
I wanna see them hand out straight jackets.
I don’t know what the gist of the article was about. Sudden turmoil in the colleges from radicalized students? Well that’s just history repeating itself .. again. There are a plethora of great colleges with crappy sports teams who couldn’t pull something like this off.
These Colleges that want to promote socialistic values and political correctness? Well lets just pool all the revenue college football brings in and split that revenue evenly between all the colleges with sports teams.
I hope the new administration of the college does a top down scrub down review of the academic records of every football player and cut them appropriately.
For the life of me I can’t figure out the specifics of what it was that the President did? Did he have a black maid or driver like “Driving Miss Daisy”? Is there a threshold and objective level for this PC stuff?
Because of a deal with the team they are supposed to play next, they would have had to pay $1,000,000 to the opposing college to forfeit the game.
Exactly.
Privilege is earned.
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