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 ...
Probably more true than false.
Nail, meet hammer. Pinkel is not only dumb, he’s a coward as well.
Football scholarships are not guaranteed; they are renewed on an annual basis. If Pinkel had anything approaching a spine, he would tell his players to choose between their playing careers, or their activities as young revolutionaries. If they opted for the latter, Pinkel could easily find more African-American athletes to take their place on the roster.
Instead, Pinkel helped the lunatics take control of the asylum, and he’s further along in the guillotine line than he realizes. That group of 30 football players realizes they now run the campus and they will make the most of their new-found power. What happens when one of them gets bumped as a starter? Or when another doesn’t get as much playing time? They will come after Pinkel with the same ferocity they mustered against Tim Wolfe.
I missed the heads-up about the Ferguson machine moving to Columbia, but it makes perfect sense. Ferguson was an opportunity to mobilize and focus their tactics. When Darren Wilson was (rightfully) cleared, there wasn’t much they could do, except protest more and burn down the few stores that were left. Ferguson is a poor community and it wasn’t much of a prize.
On the other hand, the University of Missouri system is a multi-billion dollar enterprise. And the spineless weasels still employed at the top of that pyramid are running scared. They are in the early stages of throwing money and power at the protesters, hoping they will go away. Mark my words, the new president of the Mizzou system will be African-American and they will spend millions more on diversity training, ethnocentric mental health programs and new academic offerings that are an intellectual joke, but aimed at placating the radicalized masses on campus.
Of course, Pinkel has a multi-million dollar buyout in his contract. So when the program hits bottom, Mizzou’s athletic department will have to write him a very large check.
Good! Welcome to the world you’ve created; now live in it!
Columbia, MO...has a been a pit of liberal thought for many years.
The same academic elite who championed Obama now get to reap the whirlwind from the Obama revolutionaries.
Pinkel’s name rang a bell, he was coach at the University of Toledo up the road from ‘91 to 2000. He lodged the UT team in the hotel I worked at several times before big games, guess to keep an eye on them. They didn’t seem very happy...
I wonder if the reason that professor didn’t want pictures taken of protesters, was that she didn’t want non-student Ferguson protesters to be recognised.
what’s wrong with MO? They voted for McCaskill so this is not knew. They sure showed where the US is heading.
Remember 6 years ago when the TX Legislature was debating the Top 10 Ruling on whether to drop it or not? The Top 10 being the top 10% of graduating TX high school students were given automatic admission to the state school of their choice. UT Austin’s president Powers tried to squeeze the Legislature’s ding dongs by claiming he’d have to shut down Longhorn football if they didn’t let UT out of the court ordered ruling. Never mind the ruling was brought about because of UT. OH, NO! NOT LONGHORN FOOTBALL!!!!!!!! Wish the Legislature had told him to pound sand and banned them from playing for the next three seasons. The oxygen tank seat tickets start at a ridiculous $50.
A relative of mine knew Tim Wolfe well before he took the Missouri job. He is not your typical knee jerk liberal. This was his first job in academia. Most of his previous career was as an IT executive. A good guy.
What’s so scary? Simple solution - You don’t play, you lose your full ride scholarship. There are six guys begging to take your place.
Who is John Galt? Where is Galt's Gulch?
I’m glad I missed seeing the victory dance!
That’s exactly the reason I never went into academia. I was a student at CCNY in the late 60s (well before open admissions, when it was still the public equivalent of the Ivies) when the leftist weirdos attacked. They declared a “strike” (these were all the privileged children of the left, btw; most of their parents were attorneys, doctors, bankers, etc.) and literally spit on anyone - such as us poor fools who were just trying to get an education - who went to class. Then they set fire to the President’s house, which was on campus.
The president at that time was a completely unprepared guy from the Middle West. That is, I think he would probably have been fine as president, and when I say unprepared, I don’t mean that he was ignorant; it was simply that neither he nor anybody else could have stood up to these massive attacks by the left and the complete lack of defense from authorities and people who should have been defending him.
I hate the left, regardless of color. They are evil and oppressive.
Mr. GG2’s nephew is a chancellor at the Univ of Arkansas. He told my SIL that if the football team pulls that stuff at UA they will be told to turn in their jerseys and head over to the Registrar’s office to pay their tuition as their scholarships just got cancelled.
Inmates running the assylum. Now more than ever, I am going to point my kids into the trades or technical school. I used to include the military, being a veterans myself, but they have gone beyond PC. I know some that are in now, who are good apples, but even they complain about the weak-kneed-sissy PC pandering military that they are in now.
God bless our soldiers, they need it!
Your comment about pics of non-student Ferguson protesters triggered a reminder of something I think I’ve mentioned before.
In the early 1970s my Dad was a corporate recruiter for a tech company. He did recruitment for engineers at Berkeley.
He’s told me that few if any of the Berzerkly crowd actually WENT to Berkeley. They’d just flocked to the area as it became a center of gravity for the counterculture movement.
I think you make a really excellent point there. Too bad no one had a quadcopter drone with a high-res camera to fly over and photograph the protest encampment.
Well, it has to be the money. The college football business must be very tempting for a college, but this is one of the consequences. Oftentimes, state college football coaches earn more than any other state employee. The tail is now wagging the dog.
And it all began back in 1965 when the college administrators would not crack down on the radicals.
S.W.I.N.E. Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything. (A tip of the hat to Al Capp).
STAGED PHOTO! Enfield rifles shown when back then it was the falling block Martini-Henry!
Oh wait! There are tourists in the background, behind the Zulus.
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