Posted on 12/18/2024 5:21:18 AM PST by Rev M. Bresciani
It’s safe to say Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and NCAA President Charlie Baker won’t be exchanging Christmas cards any time soon. Baker, the infamous collegiate sports boss who’s allowed female athletes to be tormented by biological men for his entire tenure, flew to D.C. for what he thought would be a congressional hearing about sports betting. Instead, it turned into an explosive takedown of the NCAA’s wildly unpopular trans policy.
From the opening gavel, there was no love lost for Baker, who’s presided over one of the most contentious chapters in college sports history.
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I do believe the House and Senate is made up of actors. They all have their role to play. Lambasters, ridiculers, debaters, antagonists, even a comic are seen just about every day doing nothing but talking. Those same people are then presented to us on Sundays in the talk shows.
We have been and are being played, big time, by these “entertainers”!!
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.
Could not agree more. We don’t have politicians who are committed to destroying the dnc though. They do seem dedicated to destroying us though.
Agreed. IMHO, we're witnessing basically a replay of what the CFA (College Football Association) was created for. That was to give colleges a voice from the NCAA choosing which few college teams get TV air time (read: TV money and publicity). The NCAA was limiting it to just a few times and just a few games, so there were only a few teams making the big bucks.
In 1981, the CFA agreed on a TV contract with CBS guaranteeing 2 TV slots per year to each participating school in the CFA (major conferences except Big 10 and Pac-10). The NCAA fought it all the way to SCOTUS and lost. Now each conference and each school can negotiate TV contracts.
I wouldn't be surprised to see the same play out today with schools avoiding trans freaks. Particularly with schools in red states that have banned it. (i.e. a lot of SEC schools may have no choice but to keep their female teams from playing teams with trans freaks, whether the NCAA likes it or not.)
“ Transgender is the most critical issue of our time.”
It is a sub-set of Queer Theory, which seeks to destroy the entire concept of “normal” from our collective consciousness.
Which, in turn, is part of the effort to destroy the concepts of Good and Evil, of Virtue and Vice.
A culture is defined by what it considers to be virtuous behaviors, and what it regards as contemptible. Destroy its ability to declare things virtuous or contemptible, and you destroy the culture.
Good post.
That is also why the Democrats must be viewed as enemies—at least as much as Russia or China or Iran or North Korea.
The Democrat values are evil—and they are in front of our faces.
Our number one priority must be fighting the Democrats—by finding their weaknesses and crushing them.
If our culture is destroyed there will be nothing worth saving from Russia, China, Iran or North Korea.
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.
You’ll just have to return it.
Get your real spines from Jesus. Cross-mounting spines!
Friend of mine works with the College World Series in Omaha and they were worried that since the city of Omaha built a stadium with a 25 year commitment from the CWS, there were concerns that if the NCAA were to fall, what would they do. This was about 10 years ago but it appears to me, college football is the driver.
“Kudos, Josh Hawley.”
I watch Josh Hawley videos everyday on YouTube. They are fun to watch and he does a great job of exposing leftists for who they really are. I wouldn’t be surprised if he wrote a book about his experiences on the Judiciary committee.
They need to clarify one very important fact in the debate they are not even close to correct in, and that’s the reason they are debating. In the article coming from Kennedy:
“...your job is to promote fairness in collegiate sports...”
No it is not! When you consider the reason for a college education is to train people for employment in the outside world, and that very few athletes ever get the opportunity to compete at the higher level, then is sports fullfilling the premise that it is a training for the future? This isn’t like computer sciences, teaching, construction, or the medical field which offers thousands of jobs annually.
Athletics as in game players is an effort to support the colleges with money earned by attendance and TV contracts to buy test tubes in the chem department and text books while supporting itself. It is big dollars and has very little to do with educating. There are degrees in the Phys ed side but they are in the scientific side of the business based on health and welfare or even organizing a recreational league and not a professional one. But those degrees are also expensive. The starting salary for NCAA President Charlie Baker is $2.8 million a year when the average annual salary for an American is $63,795. And just like congress, they vote their own raises each year.
So the misconception of what amatuer sports in college is remains the mystery of where it has gone and not what it does to get it there. Trangenderism is not a problem, it is a tool to hide the real graft. The art of misdirection.
wy69
Kennedy and Hawley both— islands of truth seeking in the midst of the Senate swamp.
From what I've read, very little if any TV money makes its way into a university's academic general fund. Other than a few top tier athletic departments, most departments need multiple sources of funding
On a secondary note, I could take some verbal abuse if I was making ~$3M a year.
“From what I’ve read, very little if any TV money makes its way into a university’s academic general fund.”
If it isn’t, then the college needs to be questioned on where the money is going. For example, over the next seven years, each university in the Big Ten will make about $72 million per year from an agreement to broadcast football and basketball on CBS, FOX, and NBC.
Schools in the SEC will make a similar amount of money from ABC and ESPN over the next ten years. Big 12 members will each make $31 million over the next six years, a figure that is significantly lower than the Big Ten and the SEC, but still represents the third most valuable TV contract in collegiate sports.
A good article on this is:
https://www.ncaa.org/sports/2016/5/13/where-does-the-money-go.aspx
Horse’s mouth.
wy69
I don’t think a lot of that money made it to lower Div 1 schools. I have a relative who played golf on such a team. It was just a glorified HS golf team. The team only played tournaments that were drivable and hoped the weather wasn’t crappy when they got there. The top tier Div 1 teams fly all over the country and put in more competitive rounds during the semester break than my relative did during an entire school year..
None of the schools I mentioned in my post were small schools. But that’s a major part of the point. The TV contracts are always being expanded and we are seeing lower division bowl games on the tube and that generates money for the schools. We now see college golf competitions on the sports channels some of lower division schools. We see skateboarding and break dancing, pickleball, foot volleyball...the list is endless of “sports” they can get on the air.
The uniforms are used as advertisement along with helmets in football, the ball in basketball, softball and baseball...every little piece of the game has been elevated into a cash cow. And remember, this started out as recreational sports to build fair play and conditioning. Welcome to the world of opportunity.
wy69
I read an article about the Pac 12 breakup. They were late to the game for negotiating TV contracts so, USC and UCLA said adios. Oregon and Washington joined them a bit later.
Each team you mentioned are heading for established conferences, at large division. They won’t lose the money and will probably get more as the further east you go the more network coverage they’ll get. There are more than just NBC, ABC, and CBS out there which includes locals that are paying also.
wy69
And then forbid any tranny's access to that new area. After all, the chief of the NCAA just said that they could do so ....
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