Posted on 11/10/2015 5:24:41 PM PST by Kaslin
My Mizzou gear went in the trash today
Would love to have seen them carry out the threat and lose their scholarships.
Fine with me.
It will be fun to see what they do to make up the lost revenue. Nothing must get between the academic mind and its cushy sinecure.
I would expect that - if football is eliminated - the financial slack will be taken up by some kind of program making undergraduates available for social purposes to wealthy individuals who are willing to make a significant contribution to the University Fund.
The program would be "gender neutral" of course. At least on paper.
I think I’ll hang onto my Mizzou diploma. But this is sickening.
Reminds me of the movie “Revenge of the Nerds”, where the football coach (and team) basically ran the campus. That is until the end when the nerdish College president finally grew a pair.
Will consistently pull against them going forward.
Haven’t watched college football in 30 years. College ball is corrupt and nothing more than a taxpayer/alumni funded farm system for the NFL. Want a “champion” college football team? Supply plenty of women, cars, booze, steroids, and cash. “Student Athletes” my hind end.
Couldn’t care less what they do, how many college administrators they get fired, or how political they get. I don’t watch and I don’t care.
Should be interesting come NFL draft time.
The legacy of Michael Sam.
What will happen if they no longer attended the games?
They can talk all day about how important college football is to the universities, but you still need people in the seats and eyeballs to the televisions.
My prediction is that attendance is going to decline, starting with Saturday's game against BYU. The silent majority is watching the events and taking notice. No parent, who are going to be middle-class and white, are going to risk their lives attending a Mizzou home game.
So did mine!!!
But, uh, I never actually owned any.
Never even been to Missouri.
I was near it once.
Grove, Oklahoma.
That's not too far from the border.
Ok.
I'm done here.
An alumni boycott of the rest of the season would send a message, as would a bunch of people quitting the alumni association.
Haven’t watched college football in 30 years.
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One upmanship:
I’ve watched a total of one foot ball game in my entire 70 years and I watched it only because my ten year old grand son was playing.
Haven’t watched college football in 30 years.
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One upmanship:
I’ve watched a total of one foot ball game in my entire 70 years and I watched it only because my ten year old grand son was playing.
“the financial slack will be taken up by some kind of program making undergraduates available for social purposes to wealthy individuals who are willing to make a significant contribution to the University Fund.”
Private enterprise has already usurped that idea, though the significant contributions go to the entrepreneurs themselves, rather than to the university.
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“Will consistently pull against them going forward.”
ditto.
So did mine. NCAA is dead to me now, for the first time in my life. I don't want to know anything about it.
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