🏈 Black players @ Mizzou strike (UPDATE: Bill proposed in legislature, "you strike, you're out.")

[planomateo]

Just outta curiosity, what if someone said, the Missouri Students Association needed to proportionally reflect the demographics of the students... Would be about as stupid as saying the school leadership should reflect a certain demographic.

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Current executive cabinet.

 

[EdfromT'town]

That's unfair, I only see 2 transgenders in the executive cabinet.

 

[TerryP]

This isn't related to the story in its entirety but I think it's a very important side story to follow. You saw the tweet from Pinkel, right? You want answer to how much weight he carries around that system?

 

[planomateo]

So let me get this straight, a few people (not even sure if they are students), make some racial comments on campus....that's what this thing is all about?

Where are these people at when young women get raped on campus. And we have athletes who are pissed about others being treated unfairly? Athletes get away with more shit than regular students.

shaking my damn head.

 

[planomateo]

Middle aged dumbass adding fuel to the fire, not a student. I wish for a world where stupid people don't exist.

 

[TerryP]

Middle aged dumbass adding fuel to the fire, not a student

Another Gary Parrish, circa 2000?

There's something within this story that hasn't been told, or exposed, yet. At least that's the impression I'm left with after watching this for a couple of days.

 

[TerryP]

This tweet throws a curve here ... makes me look at Pinkel's tweet and wonder just how representative it is about the feelings from the team:

 

[planomateo]

My wife and I were talking about this, she was asking did the rest of the team protest. I said, they really have no choice at this point. They can't take a stand and do what I'd consider the right thing to do and keep focused on what they are suppose to focus on. They have to support the others who are protesting or they'll have a bigger issue on their hand...locker room divided.

This whole thing is a mess.

 

[UAgrad93]

Definitely a situation that is only going to get worse IMO. I imagine that this group got a hold of a few of the younger players and have convinced them to join their cause. This has cause players to take sides in a matter that more than likely hasn't touched them in any way. A lot of scholarship guys live in a vacuum and have no clue to outside distractions. I hate it for their team and Pinkel and his staff. It's bad enough that a team is going through the issues they have on the field, but then throw this in, OH SHIT!!

 

[planomateo]

So what happens if this kid dies, who's gonna get blamed? I know he said he isn't going to eat, but is he drinking water?

 

[BamaFan334]

So what happens if this kid dies, who's gonna get blamed? I know he said he isn't going to eat, but is he drinking water?

Who cares to be honest? If hurting his health till death is the way he chooses to respond. That's solely on him. Not hurting my feelings go one bit what he drives himself to. You really want to prove a point? Then provide facts and a solution, not demand firings and quit eating. Very childish response in the scheme of things.

 

[planomateo]

School president resigned.

 

[BamaFan334]

School president resigned.

Thank the Lord, because now every problem has now been solved. Racism will no longer exist at Missouri.

 

[PhillyGirl]

Saw this comment on a Yahoo! article and thought it was interesting ..

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The football team's protest is a natural outgrowth of social media trends on college campuses. These days it's very popular to protest things that everyone is already opposed to. ("Bro, your micro aggressions against my anti-slavery petition will not stand.") But the protest really takes off when you find a villain and charge him with the root cause of the issues at hand. Enter President Wolfe, an aloof middle-aged white man who is the perfect villain for a campus crusade against racism. Even if, you know, he isn't racist or involved in any of the actions on campus that people are protesting.

So you've got your villain, what comes next?

You demand his firing.

Because it's not a real bona fide campus protest unless someone gets fired. The mob needs a head to parade around. "You know how much we fought racism at Mizzou? We replaced one middle-aged white dude with another middle aged white dude. Eracism, biotch!"

It's not going to cure campus racism if Wolfe steps down. But everyone knows that it's impossible to have political views in our modern social media era unless there's an evil person to blame. The mob rapidly sweeps across campus life until it envelops the football team too. Honestly, the biggest surprise here is that it's taken this long for college athletes to get involved in dumb campus protests.

Mizzou stinks this year, so they're probably going to finish 4-8, but what if a team in the college football playoff went on strike? Or let's pretend that Mizzou's players were on a team that was actually good, what if this was last year and Mizzou refused to take the field for the SEC title game? You talk about nervous television executives.

Again, there are billions of dollars at stake in these games. Put simply, the games must go on.

The schools are obligated to deliver games to the television networks. The schools use those funds to pay for coaches, facilities, and virtually all athletics on college campuses. How many school athletic department budgets could survive without a month of football? What happens if the games can't happen due to player strike?

 

[jlabit]

Well, I guess I see who is running that campus, the students. God, have mercy, on the poor soul who takes the UM President's job.

 

[TerryP]

This whole thing is a mess.

Created by ...

The football team's protest is a natural outgrowth of social media trends on college campuses.

Bullshit. It's the natural outgrowth of the politically correct teachings within the collegiate educational systems now-a-day.

Bit of a side note:

I can't help but think about Ro when he was in Tuscaloosa. About the same thing that happened to him as happened to the student President. Ro, handled things on his own. This guy at Mizzou ... goes in this direction.

 

[planomateo]

I'd agree with that. I still don't understand people who protest in groups. Probably never will.

I've never needed anyone to talk for me, never will.

It also won't surprise me to see these leaders of the protest use this to push them into some form of political office in the future. I have no doubt that they are using this to push their agenda, not the agenda at hand.

 

[Voice-of-Reason]

@planomateo, this country was formed by a group protest. When you have a specific group suffering from the same grievance it give more power for the group to stand together. I wonder how it would have turned out for let's say George Washington for example to sail over to England and tell the King "we in America want our independence, however no else there will stand up or fight for it" . Or let's say the no one would stand behind Martin Luther King during the Selma march. Maybe I should give you something a white guy would understand, let's think about how things would have been if Hitler had no one who followed him. So you see some things are done for the effect and not the cause. That young man who went on the hungry strike, knew that alone would not produce change, but the effect was to get national attention. Some of you people here need to wake the hell up.

 

[BamaFan334]

@planomateo, this country was formed by a group protest. When you have a specific group suffering from the same grievance it give more power for the group to stand together. I wonder how it would have turned out for let's say George Washington for example to sail over to England and tell the King "we in America want our independence, however no else there will stand up or fight for it" . Or let's say the no one would stand behind Martin Luther King during the Selma march. Maybe I should give you something a white guy would understand, let's think about how things would have been if Hitler had no one who followed him. So you see some things are done for the effect and not the cause. That young man who went on the hungry strike, knew that alone would not produce change, but the effect was to get national attention. Some of you people here need to wake the hell up.

Here we go with another know it all commentor. I just love how the left uses Hitler against the right and white race. Classic.

 

[18Champs]

A "Voice-of-Reason" telling people to "wake the hell up."

That's ironic considering they were calling for someone's head who had nothing to do with these two cited instances.