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Fight racial injustice.... in college sports.... L-O-F-L

Postal91Postal91 Member Posts: 1,885
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https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2020/08/02/report-group-of-pac-12-players-threatens-to-boycott-season-over-virus-social-justice-concerns/

Who are these idiots? If anywhere in America the 'racial injustice' gauge is slammed to the side favoring racists, it's CFB. Unless they want the racial mix in the league to properly reflect the population of the US.

Also, not sure where else in the world a school will bend over and break its own back to get a kid on the team if they have talent.

PS: Just shut it down. Shut it all down. These kids can go to college for an education instead of playing sports, they don't need sports.
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  • Postal91Postal91 Member Posts: 1,885
    I. Health & Safety Protections
    COVID-19 Protections
    1. Allow option not to play during the pandemic without losing athletics eligibility or spot on our team’s roster.
    2. Prohibit/void COVID-19 agreements that waive liability.
    Mandatory Safety Standards, Including COVID-19 Measures
    1. Player-approved health and safety standards enforced by a third party selected by players to address COVID-19, as well as serious injury, abuse and death.

    II. Protect All Sports
    Preserve All Existing Sports by Eliminating Excessive Expenditures
    1. Larry Scott, administrators, and coaches to voluntarily and drastically reduce excessive pay.
    2. End performance/academic bonuses.
    3. End lavish facility expenditures and use some endowment funds to preserve all sports.*
    *As an example, Stanford University should reinstate all sports discontinued by tapping into their $27.7 billion endowment.

    III. End Racial Injustice in College Sports and Society
    1. Form a permanent civic-engagement task force made up of our leaders, experts of our choice, and university and conference administrators to address outstanding issues such as racial injustice in college sports and in society.
    2. In partnership with the Pac-12, 2% of conference revenue would be directed by players to support financial aid for low-income Black students, community initiatives, and development programs for college athletes on each campus.
    3. Form annual Pac-12 Black College Athlete Summit with guaranteed representation of at least three athletes of our choice from every school.
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  • Postal91Postal91 Member Posts: 1,885
    IV. Economic Freedom and Equity
    Guaranteed Medical Expense Coverage
    1. Medical insurance selected by players for sports-related medical conditions, including COVID- 19 illness, to cover six years after college athletics eligibility ends.
    Name, Image, and Likeness Rights & Representation
    1. The freedom to secure representation, receive basic necessities from any third party, and earn money for use of our name, image, and likeness rights.
    Fair Market Pay, Rights, & Freedoms
    1. Distribute 50% of each sport’s total conference revenue evenly among athletes in their respective sports.
    2. Six-year athletic scholarships to foster undergraduate and graduate degree completion.
    3. Elimination of all policies and practices restricting or deterring our freedom of speech, our ability to fully participate in charitable work, and our freedom to participate in campus activities outside of mandatory athletics participation.
    4. Ability of players of all sports to transfer one time without punishment, and additionally in cases of abuse or serious negligence.
    5. Ability to complete eligibility after participating in a pro draft if player goes undrafted and foregoes professional participation within seven days of the draft.
    6. Due process rights
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  • Postal91Postal91 Member Posts: 1,885
    Time for 2-option athletics:
    1. You get a scholarship and waive this BS above
    2. You get no scholarship and are on the above plan, paying for everything out of pocket and contract becomes null-void if injured or unable to pay.
    BLM has killed everything great in this country and is putting us back to days of segregation.
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  • Postal91Postal91 Member Posts: 1,885
    NorthwestFresh said:

    These pampered fucks in all sports are doing their best to chase away a sports junkie like me. I spend my guy trips going to various sporting events around the country, have Duck season tickets for football, and am what you’d call their ideal customer demographic yet my support and enthusiasm is waning like never before.

    I hear you and all my support is about to die on this BLMBS hill. My donations to a club and other funds, my season tickets, and all else that falls in with this. Entitled brats are now winning the war with this BS and it has to stop. I'm exhausted in having a massive fallacy shoved into all things.
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  • WestlinnDuckWestlinnDuck Member Posts: 15,558 Standard Supporter
    Postal91 said:

    Time for 2-option athletics:

    1. You get a scholarship and waive this BS above
    2. You get no scholarship and are on the above plan, paying for everything out of pocket and contract becomes null-void if injured or unable to pay.
    BLM has killed everything great in this country and is putting us back to days of segregation.
    BLM should be a minor virus that gives you the sniffles for an afternoon if you have a healthy immune system. This country has the immune system of a Type II diabetes patient who self-medicates with meth and fentanyl.
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  • Postal91Postal91 Member Posts: 1,885
    A person familiar with the Pac-12 campaign said players from Cal, Oregon, Stanford and UCLA and other schools are involved.
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  • MikeDamoneMikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    JFC. Just shut it all down. Go with the European model where schools educate and competitive sports is done in private leagues and clubs.

    College tuition is free, but not everyone gets to go. Students start getting weeded out in elementary school. Some won't get to get an ethnic studies degree for free, but we will have trained doctors, engineers and business people ready to go.

    Time to get some fucking PERSPECTIVE!
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  • DerekJohnsonDerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 64,072 Founders Club
    MikeDamone said:

    JFC. Just shut it all down. Go with the European model where schools educate and competitive sports is done in private leagues and clubs.

    College tuition is free, but not everyone gets to go. Students start getting weeded out in elementary school. Some won't get to get an ethnic studies degree for free, but we will have trained doctors, engineers and business people ready to go.

    Time to get some fucking PERSPECTIVE!

    I agree, but will add that with logic and science being redefined as products of white privilege, and standards being lowered as we speak, just how properly trained will the doctors and engineers of tomorrow be?
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  • WestlinnDuckWestlinnDuck Member Posts: 15,558 Standard Supporter
    Apparently the golden goose tale is not taught anymore. The teacher's union, government employees, Big 5 colleges all seem to think that we will just take it and pay.
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  • MikeDamoneMikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    DerekJohnson said:

    MikeDamone said:

    JFC. Just shut it all down. Go with the European model where schools educate and competitive sports is done in private leagues and clubs.

    College tuition is free, but not everyone gets to go. Students start getting weeded out in elementary school. Some won't get to get an ethnic studies degree for free, but we will have trained doctors, engineers and business people ready to go.

    Time to get some fucking PERSPECTIVE!

    I agree, but will add that with logic and science being redefined as products of white privilege, and standards being lowered as we speak, just how properly trained will the doctors and engineers of tomorrow be?
    I said use the European model....


    Don't lower standards.
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  • Postal91Postal91 Member Posts: 1,885
    Postal91 said:

    A person familiar with the Pac-12 campaign said players from Cal, Oregon, Stanford and UCLA and other schools are involved.

    Also, what HS did these kids attend together where they were close enough in proximity to band together with this effort? Any autists want to rip this apart?

    Socialism kills, folks.
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  • BendintheriverBendintheriver Member Posts: 6,107 Standard Supporter
    The NFL and NBA need to set up their own developmental leagues for High School Seniors. Let the kids that see the value in a free education, food, clothing, books and the adoration of hundreds of thousands of fans use the scholarships.

    27 athletic departments made money last year. Some articles claim it is in reality as few as 12 schools. This bullshit deal would literally put 100 out of business and we would have a league with maybe 27 schools in it.

    I believe everyone knows who makes up the difference at the schools who don't show a profit and are running in the red. It is the regular students. The ones there to get a degree. Their fees and cost for the education go up.

    If they don't like my ideas, they can let the whole thing die off because this is never going to end until they destroy college sports.

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  • Postal91Postal91 Member Posts: 1,885
    HOLY FREAKING SHEET.... I'm rolling;

    As a Pac-12 athlete on the track/xc team at Cal Berkeley, I’m proud to be a member of the college athlete community — though these injustices must be addressed with systemic reform that benefit all athletes. Until then, I’m opting out of the fall season ✊🏼 #WeAreUnited

    https://twitter.com/RunAndrewCooper/status/1289935253469974534
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  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 44,531 Standard Supporter
    Postal91 said:

    HOLY FREAKING SHEET.... I'm rolling;

    As a Pac-12 athlete on the track/xc team at Cal Berkeley, I’m proud to be a member of the college athlete community — though these injustices must be addressed with systemic reform that benefit all athletes. Until then, I’m opting out of the fall season ✊🏼 #WeAreUnited

    https://twitter.com/RunAndrewCooper/status/1289935253469974534

    Run, Forrest, Run.

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  • BendintheriverBendintheriver Member Posts: 6,107 Standard Supporter
    WestlinnDuck said:

    Bendintheriver said:

    The NFL and NBA need to set up their own developmental leagues for High School Seniors. Let the kids that see the value in a free education, food, clothing, books and the adoration of hundreds of thousands of fans use the scholarships.

    27 athletic departments made money last year. Some articles claim it is in reality as few as 12 schools. This bullshit deal would literally put 100 out of business and we would have a league with maybe 27 schools in it.

    I believe everyone knows who makes up the difference at the schools who don't show a profit and are running in the red. It is the regular students. The ones there to get a degree. Their fees and cost for the education go up.

    If they don't like my ideas, they can let the whole thing die off because this is never going to end until they destroy college sports.

    It runs a lot deeper than the athletic department. The universities leverage off the athletic departments for a ton more than athletics. They get hundreds of millions donated for "education" from alumni who are connected primarily by football. No football, no donations.
    I have been on those calls asking people for donations. I have done it over 2 decades. Bad football then good football. It was a hell of a lot easier to get donations and pledges with good football. The worst was 79, 80 and 81. We were basically calling a bunch of drop acid and drop out hippies who hated the school. In the mid 90's it was much easier when football started to turn around. The Foundation had next to nothing in its coffers in the early 80's. It is flush now and they will be the first to tell you that it was due to athletic improvements. The problem will still be the fact that about 130 schools can't afford to start paying athletes. I keep hearing people from the big 5 stating that they don't care about the schools that would have to drop sports all together. Problem is, the networks aren't going to pay billions for a 40 team league and there are teams in all FBS leagues that are going to drop sports. This latest joke of a Pac 12 wish list wants players to take 50%. LOL! I do wonder how much would be enough? 50K per player? 100K?
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