OT: Former Illinois player tweets about player mistreatment
Former Illinois OL Simon Cvijanovic has been tweeting all night about player mistreatment and many other accusations. Think anything will come of this?
http://www.si.com/college-football/2015/05/10/illinois-illini-tim-beckm…
Didn't something similar happen with Jerry Kill at Minnesota a while ago? This will probably have the same general response. People care for a little while (or pretend to), then forget about it.
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There are limits to how much one can care about Illinois.
Magnus is right and that number is currently at 12 people, but is quickly dwindling down.
anyone care to post the cliff notes or translate from twitter?
This kid said he committed to Illinois bc of chocolate milk?
Muscle milk isn't really even chocolate milk. That was a pretty strange tweet.
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Only had yoohoo once and wasn't overly impressed. Would rather have the Sealtest Bagged Chocolate Milk I had as a kid.
Same here. I also preferred the bagged milk to the small cartons, mostly because I could never seem to correctly open it. Seemed like I always ended up tearing off a while side somehow.
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What the hell is bagged milk?
Milk in a bag
Slow clap for teacher
It's really that simple. I included it in my post bc it's much more common in Canada than it is in the USA.
In Canada, they drink it directly from the cow's bags (otherwise known as udders to America). 'Milk in a bag' like Canadian calls it. It's part of their culture.
The More You Know...
Not quite.
Haha haven't seen this picture before. Slide that bag into a pitcher, hold top two corners and bang pitcher on counter a couple times to make sure bag goes all the way down. Fucking hate when you start pouring and bag folds over edge of the pitcher and way too much milk is poured and spills. Hate spilt milk.
Milk in a bag, usually served in the cafeteria for elementary schoolers etc.
Stabby stab with the straw n shit.
We had milk in a bag in elementary school because it was supposed to be cheaper for everyone, but the only way to open it was to stab it with a straw to drink. Didn't take long for us to realize if we didn't put our thumb over the top of the straw the milk shot out the top. Lunch time quickly became a geyser show until the school switched back. Good times.
So it is the milk version of a Capri Sun?
Yeah except we buy milk in 1.333L bags.
Something the Bagman brings, which was formally brought by the Milkman.
There were a few years where Ron Zook got some good recruiting classes in Champaign that made the rest of the country stand up and go, "huh?".
I wonder if those players got milk too.
He's been tweeting for over 6 hours now. He's definitely not holding anything back. Sounds a little more than just sour grapes to me, but I doubt any punishment will come down on Beckman unless some more players come forward as well.
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It doesn't seem like this is a kid with an axe to grind over playing time or any other similar kinds of gripes. He was a recognized team leader who played. With all the shit going down around football these days, sounds like the kid just wanted to take a stand on something. Just weird to do it on Twitter.
For this generation twitter is exactly where I would expect this.
Yeah. Would have been better as a long Facebook post or something.
This is the same coaching staff who set up shop at Penn State right after the Sandusky-related NCAA sanctions were imposed. As far as antics go, I wouldn't put anything past Beckman.
He keeps tagging his coach and the university. This is going to get UGLE
...these particular claims. The days of the NCAA serving as their stand-in parents need to end. The NCAA represents too many interest to be a strong advocate for the players. And that's saying nothing of the NCAA's antiquated views on amateurism.
I tried to read through some tweets but gave up. Where is the mistreatment? Beckman is trying (and failing) to turn that program around, and players may not agree with his techniques but unless there is actual physical abuse I'm pretty sure this goes on all over the country.
If these allegations are true, dangling a players scholarship over their head and basically forcing players to play injured sounds a lot like mistreatment to me.
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He quit the team and they kept him on scholarship.
He was throwing a fit earlier acting like they were leaving him out to dry, but when Tim Beckman made a statement saying he's still on scholarship he made an about face.
My favorite tweet of the bunch
The @NCAA doesn't care, the @BigTenNetwork doesn't care, and the @Illinois_Alma doesn't care #followthemoney
— Simon Cvijanović (@IlliniSi) May 10, 2015
What the strange thing to me is why in the world they extended Beckman's contract. The guy is a complete loser and has done nothing, literally nothing, to deserve an extension.
But hey, if Illinois wants to continue to kill their program, go right ahead. Another easy win on the schedule as long as Beckman is there.
Why would they fire him after last season? They had a few decent big ten wins and made a bowl game.
It does seem like Illinois is going nowhere fast with Beckman at the helm. Too bad Michigan only plays them twice in the next 5 years, in 2016 and 2019.
I have no idea when the last time we played Ill was - 2009?
3 years ago, Beckman's first season. If memory serves correctly, Denard and Co. laid an ass whipping to the tune of 45-0.
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There was never much of a program to kill. Illinois has almost always been bad.
My guess is that they just didn't have many better options than Beckman to replace him with, and if they got rid of him, who would do a better job. Any coach worth his salt would be able to go to a far better program than Illinois. But he won't survive another 6-7 type of year.
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A players union? Nah.
but it's got way too much of a "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" vibe
Yeah a handful of tweets in he started to sound more like Alex Jones. Was there neglect by the coaches in regards to his injury? Probably, but every coach asks their players to play through pain. Is Illinois doing something shady? Maybe, but he needs to tone down his accusations and declarations before he loses public credibility and gets swept under the rug as some disgruntled, mentally-troubled former player.
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Also the injury he is complaining about is a torn meniscus. You can perform at full capacity with a torn meniscus. The surgery is just cleaning it up, not repairing it. I played with multiple guys who played whole seasons with meniscus issues. Cmon kid, do you really think you are some exploited victim of athletic department and NCAA greed? It sounds like coaches got fed up with him complaining about an injury that other people play through. If he hated it so much he had the option to leave, plain and simple.
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There are no two words in the Enlish language more harmful than 'good job'.
This is a great movie, while the actual physical abuse is not good the tough love and tough teaching pushed the drummer to be exceptional and that is only way truly great talents can be made. Being coddled will do no one good.
Yup that's why the former student before the protaganist was so great he killed himself
Come on. It's not realistic at all. People don't become great drummers by playing as loud and fast as they can alone in some room hour after hour.
I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't take any life lessons from it.
It's so sad when players like Simon are "mad" because a coach made him work hard at practice or called him a "pussy". Football is a mans sport and if hard work and a coach yelling at you is too much than that is pathetic and you don't deserve to play the game. Grow up and be a damn man. People in our country are truly becoming soft skinned and weaker as the years go by. What's this guy going to do when a boss yells at him for messing something up in the "real" world? Cry and put on a 6 hours bitchfit on Twitter? If I was an employer and heard of this so called man attacking his coach like he has I would never hire him. If you have a problem you sit down face to face with that person and work it out, you don't act like a child and cry to the public on Twitter. Football is not a game for the weak minded people and Simon has proven to be one of those people.
I played football in high school and when I say played I mean practiced, ran sprints, and lifted weights. After the game on Friday even if I didn't play I still showered. Why was that? Because I looked like I played from the diving I did on the ground to get my pants a little dirty.