Posted on 11/11/2015 7:03:16 PM PST by McB.
In 1969, the proposed use of a parking lot on the South side of the Berkeley campus triggered a confrontation between police, students, and local residents.
How President Reagan dealt with the Berkeley protesters in 1969...watch the video.
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You are right about the problem. If the athletes were paid, they might have something more valuable to take from them. That is one approach. Insurance might be another approach. Or, maybe schools could decide that they prefer to be an educational institution and deemphasize sports. I have a feeling other teams are noticing this case and we should probably expect more cases. Schools need to somehow become less dependent. They cannot turn this much power over to football teams.
Yes, the same people who stirred this up could probably find a way to stir up the same problem almost anywhere they choose to and it would be a big financial problem in a place that is only ancillary to the real mission of the university.
There's only about 15 more months of it left though, only one football season. Maybe some people will learn something about small factions of people holding everyone else hostage with... whatever...
But football? Come on, we all love football, (see screenname), but if you guys (certain football players, not you, Tau) are going to pull this crap you can just go home and we'll eat the financial loss, and you guys can go do whatever instead of experiencing college life for 4 or 5 years, and maybe learning something too.
Then after all this race crap dies down maybe we'll start up a football team again, or maybe not. Life goes on either way.
So yeah, I suppose I see your point. :)
Or for the rest of theirs... which if we are smart, we will shorten as much as possible.
What I am noticing is the reality of the power that these teams apparently have because of this financial dependency that has developed. This particular case concerns claims of racism, etc., but there is every reason to assume that a team could make demands having nothing to do with race. This case has exposed a real weakness on the part of colleges that receive large amounts of revenue from sports. Colleges need to address that weakness. The tail should not be wagging the dog. But, the money is a real issue.
I think it's safe to assume that most of the university presidents who talk to each other at the NCAA are talking now and are putting together a plan to deal with this cancer wherever it (possibly, surely?) pops up next, at least one would hope so.
Worst case, rescind their scholarships and just shut down football at least for a few years, until the kind of people who gin this stuff up are identified.
People can still go to school, and the university hospital will stay open. It would certainly cost some money, but hey, watch this... "You guys just go home."
- Wherever it should happen.
And they were funded and advised by Soviet Communists from Lenin's regime forward.
These were the Commies that McCarthy did such a poor job of exposing and warning us about.
It didn't work out well for them, and likewise here... yes, it's a lot of money, but really only a game...
I don’t think we’ll be seeing Jim Harbaugh throwing UofM under the bus. After all his first act after getting here was to stand up against the students and support the American Sniper film.
UofM is a funny place. Its easily one of the furthest left schools in the nation but has enough fear of the people that they refuse to “divest” from Israel despite endless whining from the students. It helps that they do a lot of research work for Israel.
Likewise the school I'm close to has a head coach who is inclined to remove a cancer from the locker room because he frankly wants a good football team.
We also have a university president who is not to be messed with... former US Senator, chair of the Intelligence Committee, with the persona of Edward G. Robinson when stuff like this happens.
People have learned this lesson the hard way, football coaches among them.
If it should happen here and push come to shove, I think people would support him when he says "Just shut it down."
Maybe that stadium could be used to pay for itself in other ways.
Reagan was the Governor of California.
Puzzling in a way that Michigan should be such a lefty school but hey it just is what it is one would suppose. I assume it has to do wtih the labor/union influence up north.
Once, on a business trip in a previous life I met some recent MSU grads who were really middle of the road, fun loving people and that's about my only experience up there...
“I’ve always been under the impression that it was a student grass roots movement against the establishment.”
I was in high school then and thought the same as you. My teachers in the bay area applauded the students for protesting.
Those young socialists are now old socialists and are in leadership positions throughout our government, education system and every other institution in America. The young commie vermin out there “protesting” today are the future leaders of tomorrow.
The Free Speech movement (Mario Savio?) had inflamed Berkeley in late '65 when I was choosing and it looked like a very strong possibility that Reagan was just going to shut the whole place down--he certainly talked like it. I decided I couldn't and didn't need to take that chance. Because I'm a Southern California city-boy, San Luis Obispo seemed unattractive, so I became a proud Trojan for life.
I was young and naïve back then. What’s that saying,
“youth is wasted on the young.”
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