Posted on 11/10/2015 5:24:41 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Here's Rachel Nichols, by the way. She was also on Anderson Cooper last night, and he said to her, "There are obviously a lot of factors involved here, but it is undeniable the power that this team has. I mean, they bring in tens of millions of dollars to this school every year."
NICHOLS: Within 48 hours of the football team making an announcement that's when we saw these resignations. Look, there are more people who watch football games in this country than go to church. There are more people who watch football games in this country than vote. This is where we have a lot of our national conversations. We've seen LeBron James get active in the Trayvon Martin case. We've seen NFL and NBA players and the "I can't breathe" Eric Garner shirts. We saw the Clippers say they refused to play for their own team owner, Donald Sterling, and now we can count the Missouri football players among those athletes.
CNN’s Rachel Nichols Compares Missouri Football Team to Jackie Robinson
RUSH: Right, and they're so excited. Rachel and her buds in the media are all excited. They've been hoping and praying to be able to get these athletes involved in the political process because they think they're unstoppable. And they think, because of what she just said, more people watch football than go to church, if you worship an athlete and he comes out and says "Vote Obama," that's probably worth 10 million votes, so many people idolize athletes.
Up to now athletes have been reluctant to do that because kids of both parties happen to buy T-shirts or tennis shoes or sneakers or what have you, and athletes have been reluctant to alienate half of the buying public. But that hasn't stopped the Drive-By sports media from trying to lure them in and get them involved in the political process, 'cause of course the Drive-By sports media is as liberal, if not more so, than the standard everyday Drive-By Media.
One last thing. Michael Sam, in a story found at NewsBusters yesterday said that he had personally experienced no racism at all when he played football for Mizzou. Claims to have personally experienced no racism whatsoever. "Michael Sam has a lot to learn about being a radical liberal activist. After University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe resigned on Monday," Sam said (paraphrasing), "I didn't experience any racial issues. It didn't happen. Everything was fine. They gave me awards" and the left-wing activists could not let this stand. I mean, here's this openly gay, award-winning linebacker for Mizzou, African-American, says he didn't experience any racism, and that's the whole reason all this hubbub is going on.
So they got hold of Michael Sam. They took him somewhere and they got his mind right and the next story that came out on Breitbart was: "Michael Sam, the openly gay football player who competed at the University of Missouri from 2009-13, tweeted his delight after Mizzou president Tim Wolfe announced his resignation Monday morning."
Michael Sam said: "If Mizzou is truly a family, then WE all must stand by #ConcernedStudent1950!!!"
"Today was just one more step forward, that it’s true we can still come together in any circumstance."
So yesterday, hey, you know what, I didn't experience any racism. A few short hours later, they'd gotten his mind right, he became victim number one, as he should have always portrayed himself to be and was off on the right path.
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RUSH: By the way, one more thing about Michael Sam. You know what he did? He bombed out in the NFL. Then he went to the CFL and it didn't work out there, so he left. You know where he went? He went back to Mizzou. He went back to this racist, sexist, homophobic institution. He went backward. Nobody feels safe. He went back where there's anger and hatred all over the place. That's where he went back. He wanted to finish his studies. He wanted go to grad school or something, wanted to try to get a degree of some kind. Why would he return to such a racist, filthy, unsafe, dangerous place when he could have gone anywhere else?
My Mizzou gear went in the trash today
Would love to have seen them carry out the threat and lose their scholarships.
Fine with me.
It will be fun to see what they do to make up the lost revenue. Nothing must get between the academic mind and its cushy sinecure.
I would expect that - if football is eliminated - the financial slack will be taken up by some kind of program making undergraduates available for social purposes to wealthy individuals who are willing to make a significant contribution to the University Fund.
The program would be "gender neutral" of course. At least on paper.
I think I’ll hang onto my Mizzou diploma. But this is sickening.
Reminds me of the movie “Revenge of the Nerds”, where the football coach (and team) basically ran the campus. That is until the end when the nerdish College president finally grew a pair.
Will consistently pull against them going forward.
Haven’t watched college football in 30 years. College ball is corrupt and nothing more than a taxpayer/alumni funded farm system for the NFL. Want a “champion” college football team? Supply plenty of women, cars, booze, steroids, and cash. “Student Athletes” my hind end.
Couldn’t care less what they do, how many college administrators they get fired, or how political they get. I don’t watch and I don’t care.
Should be interesting come NFL draft time.
The legacy of Michael Sam.
What will happen if they no longer attended the games?
They can talk all day about how important college football is to the universities, but you still need people in the seats and eyeballs to the televisions.
My prediction is that attendance is going to decline, starting with Saturday's game against BYU. The silent majority is watching the events and taking notice. No parent, who are going to be middle-class and white, are going to risk their lives attending a Mizzou home game.
So did mine!!!
But, uh, I never actually owned any.
Never even been to Missouri.
I was near it once.
Grove, Oklahoma.
That's not too far from the border.
Ok.
I'm done here.
An alumni boycott of the rest of the season would send a message, as would a bunch of people quitting the alumni association.
Haven’t watched college football in 30 years.
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One upmanship:
I’ve watched a total of one foot ball game in my entire 70 years and I watched it only because my ten year old grand son was playing.
Haven’t watched college football in 30 years.
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One upmanship:
I’ve watched a total of one foot ball game in my entire 70 years and I watched it only because my ten year old grand son was playing.
“the financial slack will be taken up by some kind of program making undergraduates available for social purposes to wealthy individuals who are willing to make a significant contribution to the University Fund.”
Private enterprise has already usurped that idea, though the significant contributions go to the entrepreneurs themselves, rather than to the university.
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“Will consistently pull against them going forward.”
ditto.
So did mine. NCAA is dead to me now, for the first time in my life. I don't want to know anything about it.
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