Posted on 11/10/2015 10:20:38 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
* Football players boycotted, and essentially forced the tumbling of Mizzouâs 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
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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 ...
My prediction....Mizzou will not win another game this year. Recruiting will be more difficult and soon Pinkel will be gone. Basketball went down the tube and now football. All this is about more than Mizzou, it is about accept or die.
Bur that a pretty boring way of going about it.
I’ve found some online courses to be great, priced right (free) and a good way to cover the subject matter in a short time for someone who has interest in the subject matter. Retention is not as good though as letting it sink in over a semester.
Nobody says going to college actually makes one smart! :-) Whether students or faculty.
Yep, their CHICKENS! .....are coming home....to ROOST!
Why not? They’ve been emboldened by the president’s quick cave in. H3ll, why not go after the governor as well? The state ultimately runs the university system and he’s the top dog in the state.
But they are student athletes! Leaders of the stupid body and paragons of virtue and intellect!
/s
This is nothing but black mail. Emphasis on black.
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College kids just shut down the Green Line ( the "T" in Boston ) ( via the Kuhner Report).
These kids are gonna Fubar the Nation like you read about, Commie Rat *****rds...
Unless, of course, Hitlery wins and makes edgeecation free for all. Now is there ANY parent who would say NO to free government-funded edgeecation?
I guess you can dream.
Sort of like the North Koreans who got executed because they didn't show sufficient grief at the announcement of the death of Kim Jong Mentally Ill.
I wonder . . . would the prima donnas on the football team walked off if they were ranked and maybe looking at a Bowl game?
The answer is a return to scholarship with regard to GPA. That eliminates 99% of the problems, and returns to student-athlete fellowship rather than serving as the minor league for the National Felons League.
i just wish their goose was cooked
“most of whom probably shouldnât even be in college”
Noticing is a firing offense now. Be careful.
I suspect that Obama's Justice Dept was on the phone to the board, telling them that if they fired the athletes, that the following day a DOJ civil rights investigation team would show up and put them all under a microscope.
*No way is BLM operating in a vaccuum.
*That means, this was an planned attempt to restart BLM in what Hillary fantasizes is a swing state
*I might add, anything at all at this point was useful to take away the focus on the feathers covering King and Deray and their disgronified followers (google "Justice Together" lol)
*Remember, these dumbasses had like 7 or 8 "demands". The President of the University resigning was #4!
*By immediately resigning, Wolfe took all the momentum away from BLM (and Hillary, and Soros) ie can you even name another "demand"?
*Mizzou didn't act in a vaccuum, either, guaranteed the SEC told the Board of Chickens to pluck Wolfe to buy the rest of NCAA Division I enough time to build firebreaks/firewalls against anything remotely like this happening again
*And now these kids have pissed off the media, which gives ESPN and all the sports nets cover to bury the story under 10000 lbs of playoff scenarios
Happy the college president whose football team has 0-11 seasons...not too much pressure to cave into demands from the football team there.
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