UT football players allege school and donors coerced (them) into staying for “The Eyes of Texas”
This is pretty rough
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/03/ut-austin-eyes-of-texas-donors/
[Edit @ 8:10 pm] I would prefer to allow this thread to remain open. Let's everyone help to keep this thread alive by discussing thoughts, insight, and ideas rather than attacking others who are partaking in the discussion. Thank you all.
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(PS: I also edited the title, per the OP's request)
“Coerced them”
Fuck my editors for not catching this
Fixed
Thanks!
This is disgusting
For The Greater Good
All, in unison: The Greater Good....T_T
Feel like the pretty obvious solution to this is that the song stays the fight song, is played at games but if any player doesn't want to participate, they don't have to.
So that's the thing it's not the fight song, it's the alma mater, so it's not played during games - they're "cordially required" to stand for it post game
Ah, didn’t know that. I’ve always thought making the players sing the alma mater was weird, most of them clearly don’t want to. It’s more fun for the fans and alumni.
Not a good look but transfer portal is a real thing if they feel that strongly about it.
Exactly. And don't commit to play there.
Some of those donor emails are crazy backwards referring to the players and minority students as “the blacks” lmao. It’s crazy we share a country w/ these morons.
Michigan has its share of people we'd rather not have in the fanbase too.
Yep. Fab Five Doc and Gardner showed us all that.
Navarre got death threats. I am pretty sure Blake O’Neill got some too. I am pretty certain a lot more than these three received hate.
Devin Gardner wasn’t alone in receiving hate.
Wow!
@0970
At any game in the stadium, if Michigan isn't absolutely dominating, there is a fairly notable segment of the fanbase that will absolutely turn on the players. It's awful to hear (particularly if you have kids) and kind of cringe worthy (when the vast majority of those yelling couldn't run to the corner).
The Devin Gardner stuff pisses me off to this day.
Here's a dude who had his career totally fucked up by a bunch of incompetents and the guy never fussed once -- because all he wanted to do in life was bleed Maize and Blue.
Fuck anyone who ever sent him hateful shit.
It's awful to hear (particularly if you have kids)
I coach youth soccer and it's a complete shit show. We've had to go a silent sideline rule and also putting all the parents across the field on one sideline and both teams on the other. It feels a little like hockey with both teams on the same boundary.
It also never ceases to amaze me at the number of parents who say "it's not me" when in fact, they are part of the fucking problem.
So if we cannot even fucking get along at a rec league soccer game, it's no surprise to me this stuff happens at big time sports level. Especially where people think money buys them entitlement.
Kinda irrelevant, but it's actually standard in soccer for both teams to be on the same sideline.
At U 12?
Ummm no.
Ummm, yeah.
it varied...
My kids played in Minnesota and SD and depending on location and tournament it was not consistent.
Personally I like the players on one side and the coaches on the other (we called those college rules) versus having the parents and their kids on one side versus on the other.
The advantage to the latter is that it is easier for the refs to determine which parents are being dumb.
I don’t tolerate that non-sense ever. If someone sitting near me starts talking shit about one of the players I shut their ass down immediately. They are college kids, not pros. They should be treated as such.
As you should.
However, I'm curious as to what happens (as the vast majority of this blog wants) when college "kids" start earning increased monetary compensation?
Entitled fans will always feel entitled, and assholes will always be assholes; but at what dollar amount can a fan watch a college student who is now making bank feel ok to make a decision on whether they are getting their money's worth?
Does it matter how much they make? Whether their classes are challenging or not? Are they even "playing school"?
Food for thought.
Yeah but Texas is stuck with Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey is fucking great for Texas.
I wish we had this kind of a dude at Michigan. If you can find it, check out his 2019 appearance on the Tonight Show in Austin (youtube had a copy but it's currently marked private).
Was this it? If you scroll down there is a class skit and Jimmy plays Eyes of Texas.
I'm referring to the interview which was really awesome. It's blocked.
I remember MM saying the reason why he went to Austin (vis-a-vis Hollywood) was because the culture. And he said it an a matter which was respectful of everyone, right, left, regardless of who they worship, who they love, the color of their skin, or what's between their legs. He did it without name calling, censoring, or introducing politics into the discussion.
Exactly. I'd like to think that all the militia knuckleheads who plotted to kidnap and execute Govenor Whitmer were doing it while wearing MSU paraphernalia, but I have a feeling that probably isn't 100% the case.
well, there's this guy...
There you go, there's plenty of stupid to go around for all fanbases...
"The blacks" is common parlance among a certain class of conservatives who like to maintain plausible deniability. In the long, long ago and (thankfully) very far away, we once had a president who used such language:
https://gawker.com/the-collected-quotes-of-donald-trump-on-the-blacks-1719961925
He’ll be back and sooner than you think.
If you think injecting "Qanonsense" into the discussion is ok or will be ignored, you are wrong, "Michrider41".
I just took a look at your posting history and can tell you this: one more strike and you're banned.
My favorite thing on the blog. Seeing people who will probably be listed in the obituaries.
All he said was Trump might be back, and that warrants a threat of a ban?
But y'all are fine with people wishing death on conservatives, and shitting all over our Former President Trump without repurcussions?
Ridiculous.
Let's keep the politics (to be more specific, your link) out of this please, MGlobules.
I see a clean posting history, so I'm not at all worried about you complying.
If it's so bad, leave.
"Do you regularly browse people's posts and ban threat those who have liberal ideas that align closely with your own?"
The answer is NO.
If it turned out The Victors was a Nazi theme or something horrible I would support changing it as fast as they changed the Amazon icon.
I'll take the bait.
What is racist about a smile?
Ppl thought it looked like a Hitler stache apparently? Lol
I thought you were being sarcastic until I googled it and I'm still struggling to accept this isn't some elaborate practical joke.
I thought it looked more like a male member....but maybe thats just me.
Is that serious? I hadn’t even noticed the logo changed on my app...wtf is this world coming to?
Cancel culture seems like a joke until they get you and it’s too real
Some of the claims are legit, without a doubt. But after googling it and seeing what the issue was, this was pretty lame...Takes away from the legit claims when it goes overboard like this...
This is where I fall also. Stop claiming everything is racist because when something really is, it won’t carry the gravity that it should!
I'm sorry, but who exactly was 'got' in this scenario? The Amazon logo is not a person; it cannot experience the negative consequences of being associated with Hitler. While I can agree with most level-headed people in saying that the Amazon logo absolutely did not look like Hitler, if enough people, also known as customers, don't like Amazon's logo, no matter the reason, then Amazon has the right to change it as they see fit. This is yet another instance of people confusing "cancel culture", which is not really a thing anyways, with the free market working as it should. If a business recognizes that their bottom line is in jeopardy for whatever reason then they will act to ensure their profits are maximized. I'm sorry if you feel really strongly about the Amazon logo; in the future, I would try not to let an immaterial company symbol dictate your feelings.