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Meanwhile in Missouri - BostonCard - 11-07-2015

https://twitter.com/Mark_Schlabach/status/663211100402503684

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/25366653/missouris-black-football-players-refusing-to-play-until-president-ousted

BC

Re: Meanwhile in Missouri - OutsiderFan - 11-07-2015

Wow, this is going to be one seriously fascinating story to see play out this week.

Re: Meanwhile in Missouri - Kathy - 11-07-2015

The way Mizzou has been playing, one might have thought the players had been on strike all season. The team has been MIA for several weeks now.


Re: Meanwhile in Missouri - ThePassionOfTheChryst - 11-07-2015

I don't know much about the situation, but I predict that ferrari and stupac will butt heads in this thread.

Re: Meanwhile in Missouri - martyup - 11-07-2015

If they follow through with their protest, next week's game against BYU will be the whitest college football game in decades.  ;D

Re: Meanwhile in Missouri - martyup - 11-07-2015

I've got a feeling that these players are going to learn a hard life's lesson about choosing your battles carefully.

Re: Meanwhile in Missouri - Langdude - 11-07-2015

(11-07-2015, 10:52 PM)martyup link Wrote:If they follow through with their protest, next week's game against BYU will be the whitest college football game in decades.  ;D

Oh my goodness, that made me laugh!

-m.

Re: Meanwhile in Missouri - winflop - 11-08-2015

(11-07-2015, 11:09 PM)martyup link Wrote:I've got a feeling that these players are going to learn a hard life's lesson about choosing your battles carefully.

I think the most the University can do is kick them off the team and revoke their scholarships.  They can then transfer and IIRC in these circumstances they would not have to sit out a season.  If that were the worst thing that could happen to me, and I felt as strongly as these guys appear to feel, I wouldn't hesitate to be right there with them.  I might not be able to play football for or graduate from Missouri, but I'd be confident that I could do both somewhere else.

Re: Meanwhile in Missouri - martyup - 11-08-2015

If they tried to transfer,  what D1 school would offer them a scholarship after they abandoned their team to pursue political activism?

Re: Meanwhile in Missouri - washingtonismoney - 11-08-2015

(11-08-2015, 09:27 AM)martyup link Wrote:If they tried to transfer,  what D1 school would offer them a scholarship after they abandoned their team to pursue political activism?

AIDE: "He was involved in some political activism."

COACH: "Not sure I can afford the distraction."

*A PAUSE*

COACH: "Wait, he runs a 4.4?"

Re: Meanwhile in Missouri - winflop - 11-08-2015

(11-08-2015, 09:27 AM)martyup link Wrote:If they tried to transfer,  what D1 school would offer them a scholarship after they abandoned their team to pursue political activism?

If all you think of this situation is that it's political activism I feel sorry for you.  This is way more than that.  This is equivalent to a hostile work environment with an administration that doesn't appear to be doing anything about it.  If I thought they were worthy of a scholarship based on their on-field performance I'd offer one in a heartbeat.

Re: Meanwhile in Missouri - Hey - 11-08-2015

(11-07-2015, 11:26 PM)Langdude link Wrote:[quote author=martyup link=topic=13558.msg140279#msg140279 date=1446961968]
If they follow through with their protest, next week's game against BYU will be the whitest college football game in decades.  ;D

Oh my goodness, that made me laugh!

-m.
[/quote]
+1.  Funniest post of the season.

What is the chain of events... - Redrum - 11-08-2015

that identifies the feces swastika as coming from on-campus sources?  Any better information not in the linked article?

Re: What is the chain of events... - stupac2 - 11-08-2015

(11-08-2015, 10:06 AM)Redrum link Wrote:that identifies the feces swastika as coming from on-campus sources?  Any better information not in the linked article?

If it was inside a dorm then it was almost certainly either someone affiliated with the university or someone brought in my someone affiliated with the university. Although maybe Mizzou's security is ludicrously lax and anyone can just walk into a dorm at 2AM.

Re: Meanwhile in Missouri - stupac2 - 11-08-2015

(11-08-2015, 10:29 AM)garvin link Wrote:
Quote:If it was inside a dorm then it was almost certainly either someone affiliated with the university or someone brought in my someone affiliated with the university. Although maybe Mizzou's security is ludicrously lax and anyone can just walk into a dorm at 2AM.

See my Asia Kim reference above. I think you seriously misremember the state of dorm security at Stanford.

Sure it's not impossible to get into a dorm, but you have to be let in by someone at some point. Which is doable, but gets hard if no one knows you and it's late at night. Do you think it's anything other than highly unlikely that it was done by someone with no university affiliation?

Re: Meanwhile in Missouri - washingtonismoney - 11-08-2015

(11-08-2015, 10:27 AM)garvin link Wrote:But to allow the football team to hold the school hostage over the political issue de jour sends a terrible, terrible message about the place of athletics on campus. It would be like saying, "Yeah, this stuff didn't matter so much when it was just affecting the peasantry of the student body. But if the football-team royalty is upset, that's different."

Others can talk about the other aspects of the argument, but this doesn't fit the facts. There are multiple students, I believe, holding hunger strikes over this. So it's not as if the football team has unilaterally decided this is a matter of concern and are forcing the university to go along. In fact it appears to be of broad concern to the black community of Mizzou.

Indeed if anything this shows society's somewhat poor weighting of what opinions matter -- fewer people were paying attention before the football team got involved. (Indeed, I didn't know about the whole situation until the football team decided to get involved -- and it appears awareness of the situation in the elite mainstream media is splintered. The Washington Post has written about it but not, say, Vox, who I'd expect to be all over it. Instead the Yale fracas appears to have dominated attention, probably because the situation is more clear-cut.)

Re: Meanwhile in Missouri - martyup - 11-08-2015

I'm not sure why the Jewish community is not more concerned with the Nazi symbol than the black community.  Even if it was a student that placed the Nazi symbol and it was students that used the N word, how could the University President have stopped that?  That's where choosing your battles carefully comes into play.  It's understandable to get involved in political actions to try to change the tone and culture of the University environment.  But to hold hostage the football program until the President is removed seems to be overplaying your cards big time.

Re: Meanwhile in Missouri - BostonCard - 11-08-2015

I don't know enough about this incident beyond what has been written publicly to comment, but when you have a series of racist incidents there are ways that a University President can respond that shows concern for everyone in the student body, and there are ways that show that he (or she) is more interested in hobnobbing with donors and really couldn't be bothered to address the issue.  Though I don't know what Wolfe has or has not done in this case, it is clear that it has left a number of people very upset, not just the football team.

BC

Re: Meanwhile in Missouri - washingtonismoney - 11-08-2015

https://twitter.com/GaryPinkel/status/663410502370856960

Re: Meanwhile in Missouri - winflop - 11-08-2015

Dorm security was absolutely lax in my day, but based on my experience with my son at Marquette, it's not that way today.

At Marquette, every dorm entrance is staffed and you cannot get past there unless you have a student ID or someone with a student ID meets you at the desk.  Maybe that's a function of Marquette being an urban campus, but I think that something that happens inside a dorm room is either done by someone with access or someone deliberately let in by a person with access.