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Black football players at the University of Missouri have joined calls demanding the ouster of the president of the state's four-campus university system over alleged inaction against racism on campus.
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It's not clear what repercussions, if any, could come to the football players if they refuse to play in Missouri's next football game against Brigham Young University on November 14. Some have called for the students to lose their scholarships.
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Ironic- BYU is up next. The situations are completely different though.
This has been a really interesting story to follow.. read yesterday that Pinkel's staff is supporting the players, then read today that an anonymous player said the coaches and some of the players are pissed about halting practice. Slightly conflicting reports.. but quite fascinating. Forcing the president to resign probably won't do much to help this, but they need to fix this most ricky-tick.
Not to get off on politics, because heaven knows that and religion are hot topics with people, but I've read a lot about this and I think they are going about it the wrong way. We live in a hypersensitive time. Protests are more common than employment. Many professing "free speech" and demanding "their voice be heard" are the very ones who get offended when others are doing the same.
Missouri obviously has some issues to work out, but protesting the game really won't prove anything.
MrTitleist wrote:This has been a really interesting story to follow.. read yesterday that Pinkel's staff is supporting the players, then read today that an anonymous player said the coaches and some of the players are pissed about halting practice. Slightly conflicting reports.. but quite fascinating. Forcing the president to resign probably won't do much to help this, but they need to fix this most ricky-tick.
Yeah I read that too. Sounds like half the team is pissed at the other half. Bad situation for Pinkel to be in. I wonder how many lose their scholarships in a very quiet fashion at the end of the year.
Sounds like the guy leading this whole thing is a social justice warrior who spends more time protesting than he does going to class. Here is a good article on the whole thing.
Not trying to take attention away from the underlying issue of whether or not racism existed and whether or not it was dealt with properly, but kudos to the football team for organizing themselves and getting what they want (regardless of the validity of their demands). Like was mentioned above, these kids can have quite a bit of bargaining power. If a portion of a University's football team can get a University President to resign in less than a week, I'm interested to see if there is any strategies created among athletes to push for other things (coaching changes, new equipment, money, etc.). If only a few players on a single team can organize a successful protest, how soon before they coordinate with conference mates to influence the commissioner? Or with other D-1 athletes to influence the NCAA?
Buckle up, folks. This is gonna (potentially) be a wild ride.
I have the same opinion as some others on here. I tried reading up about what is going on at MU but reading one article doesn't really tell the whole story I'm sure so I don't really understand everthing. But if things got bad enough for everything that happened to happen then I applaud the team for taking a stance.The athletes are students first and if they were able to do something to take a stand and help their fellow students then good for them. They have a platform and have the right to use it.
Even more than that I applaud the coaching staff and the rest of the team for supporting them even if they didn't want to as some reports were. Could you imagine the difference in the Black 14 scandal if the coach had supported the players instead of kicking them off.
A little context...I'm faculty here at Mizzou, and the resignations of leadership were about far more than race on campus. There have been a number of issues that have been percolating here in Columbia over the past several months...the racism issue is simply the straw that broke the camels back.
So, for those of you who think this is merely a race issue that the football players got involved in, you are mistaken. However, the football team has interestingly demonstrated just how much power they have over things on a college campus these days.
