BAKER: … Because we’re a national governing body and we follow federal law.
KENNEDY: That’s what you’re there for. Why don’t you stand up and say in front of God and country, ‘Federal law is wrong, and the NCAA believes in fair competition’? … Why don’t you go to Amazon and buy a spine online and take a stand?
Kennedy isn't wrong. But he isn't right either. It's the federal government making bad decisions. Any organization that goes against federal law is going to be sued. And they will lose. Courts have decided this already -- 5 times!! But Kennedy says the federal government is wrong, and it's up to Baker to fix the federal government by trying to get his organization sued. That's just stupid.
Congress needs to pass a law that will be recognized by the federal courts.
Baker is probably a jerk, and probably should have done more to promote fairness. But the people in congress (like Kennedy) have the big role to play here.
And often organizations that support federal law get sued. Baker knew that when he signed on for the job.
But according to Senator Hawley federal law supports women athletes; and the 5 lower court opinions have not settled the issue except in the minds of liberals who have announced, as they always do, “we won.”
The crazy people have not won at the Supreme Court level and it is unlikely they will based on the court's current makeup.
But you are right too; the Congress should come down on perversion like a ton of bricks.
But because sanity does not have 60 votes in the Senate that will be difficult.
A workaround will be needed. What we don't need is surrender.
You are correct of course. Baker may be a puke but let him go against what is federal law and see what happens. NCAA will be sued to oblivion. This government is dead wrong and stays that way. The mess has been made and it will take moving heaven and earth to ever correct it. The hope we have had is only temporal. I have my doubt how much congress will let Trump actually accomplish. We don’t need a revival. What we need is a freaking revolution. A big one.
NCAA....same filthy organization that under the feckless drip Myles Brand (fired Bobby Knight) forced teams with traditional time hoonored indian team names to drop them. No end to their doucheness.
There ... I said it.
Having women compete in segregated sports leagues is no different than having black people use separate water fountains and bathrooms.
When some federal judge finally gets the spine to come out and say this, then all scholastic sports programs are going to collapse ... because the NCAA is never going to accept a paradigm where every sport has one "gender-neutral" league, and 99.99% of the competitors are men.