OT: Black Missouri players threatening to strike from football activities of demands aren't met.

Submitted by SAMgO on
Here's the PDF list of demands that a student group called "Concerned Student 1-9-5-0" at Missouri is making, which 32 black Missouri football players are a part of: http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/columbiatribune.com/content… Judging by the extremity and in some cases probable illegality of their demands, it seems highly unlikely that they will be met, which actually leaves uninvolved onlookers with quite the intriguing situation. Will Mizzou pull the scholarships of all these players? Will they relent and show up to practice tomorrow? I, for one, think it'll be fascinating to see how this plays out.

Farnn

November 8th, 2015 at 12:47 PM ^

It was locked last night because it was midnight on a Saturday and mods didn't want to deal with moderating that thread.  This should stay up as long as people can be reasonable.

State Street

November 8th, 2015 at 12:48 PM ^

It's honestly ridiculous that this can't be discussed here. This is one of the most interesting developments in the players-rights movement and has the ability to significant shift the balance of power in the structure of collegiate athletics.

justingoblue

November 8th, 2015 at 1:02 PM ^

You read that mostly right. This is, or at least has the potential to be, one of the biggest stories of the year even outside of sports, and that's not considering the NCAA/employment issues inadvertently raised.

Still, I don't think you or me or anyone else needs a map to see a bad ending eventually.

wolverine1987

November 8th, 2015 at 1:15 PM ^

At least, according to the typical definition, isn't players rights about getting paid, working conditions, whether there should be a union, etc.? This is about current players joining a campus protest that has nothing to do with football, or how football players are treated. Since football players are students, it's certainly legitimate of them to, as students, join campus protests, but I don't see this as a player or sports issue.

Fenrir the Righteous

November 8th, 2015 at 12:56 PM ^

Yeah, I still suck at embedding tweets, but Mizzou head Coach Pinkel is tweeting his support. That level of involvement makes it a national-media level movement. Has anyone here been following this story prior to this weekend?

SAMgO

November 8th, 2015 at 1:49 PM ^

If they don't play Saturday Pinkel should be let go immediately. You can't have a football team holding hostage the academic leadership of the university. He's obviously in a tough spot, but wedging the entire team into a spot like this is reckless.




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SAMgO

November 8th, 2015 at 1:56 PM ^

They have every right to do so outside of the operations of the football team. Don't be so dense, you know what SEC football means to the community down there. These kids are being provided with an all expenses paid education because of football, and the sport they play shouldn't be a part of their protests.




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SAMgO

November 8th, 2015 at 2:16 PM ^

Then they should be prepared to have their scholarships pulled. Football is, after all, the only reason their school is being paid for, and for many athletes (who knows how many in this group but if it's a normal percentage than it's most of them) the reason they were admitted to the school.




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WorldwideTJRob

November 8th, 2015 at 2:23 PM ^

Then they'll play somewhere else. Mizzou ultimately loses because the repercussions for this will be felt for a long time. Why do people act like pulling scholarships is going to cause these kids major problems. They have the talent to play football, ultimately they will be ok. But good luck trying to recruit African-American kids to play football in the future for Missouri if they don't play this right.

Optimism Attache

November 8th, 2015 at 2:33 PM ^

I can see you're mad they're doing this, but I think these kids know full well their scholarships could be pulled. They also know they have the leverage here because it would look terrible for the school to do that.

Implicit in this is that the athletes provide more value to the school than the school provides them. And the athletes are going to demonstrate that. Sometimes tables turn.

myblueheaven

November 8th, 2015 at 2:36 PM ^

You're perspective evolves around football and not the real reason this issue is even viral. People are being marginalized because of their color in an environment that is supposed to be above unscientific conceptions such as race. If an institution is more concerned about football as opposed to the apprehension behind what is motivating 30 or more student athlethes to risk their education and not play football, then that speaks volumes about the negative culture that may be prevelant throughout the institution.

SalvatoreQuattro

November 8th, 2015 at 2:20 PM ^

there are repercussions for what people do. Frankly, I think Mizzou should suspend the football program. Even if the chancellor deserves to lose his job a football program should not be able to subvert the academic side of the university.

It's their right as Americans to protest, but they don't have a right to subvert the power of the office of chancellor. If they can do it who can't? It's a slippery slope.

Optimism Attache

November 8th, 2015 at 3:14 PM ^

Is it privileged? It's a transactional relationship. "The university" doesn't invite the athletes to go to school there for nothing. They get something, Mizzou gets something.

And I totally agree that the university could definitely take away what it offers in that transaction--well within its rights. But it won't, because it would look very bad and it doesn't want to sabotage an athletic program from which it derives tremendous value.