Posted on 08/02/2020 8:29:08 AM PDT by rktman
While professional football, baseball, and basketball players have been opting out of their upcoming seasons by the dozens, less has been heard from the nation’s collegiate athletes.
Well, that’s beginning to change.
According to a report obtained by ESPN, a group of players from several different Pac-12 schools have threatened to sit out preseason and regular season games unless the Pac-12 makes certain concessions. In a text message from the group, the aim is to “obtain a written contract with the Pac-12 that legally ensures we are offered the following protections and benefits.”
The list includes:
— Ensure safe play during COVID-19
— Fight racial injustice
— Secure economic rights and fair compensation
— Protect all sports
— Obtain long-term health insurance
Though, according to the conference, they haven’t heard from this group of players.
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Players on “scholarships” making demands?? Comical.
Pull the scholarship of every player boycotting. Don’t dither. Just do it.
No great loss, let ‘em go. In fact, cancel the season.
I hope all sports are cancelled and these d-bags lose their scholarships.
College/University is supposed to be about education, not professional sports D-league.
I say let them sit out the season and find players who want to play. I bet that can be done easily.
Why not? Just cancel the season now and be done with it. No weekly SJW lectures. Stick the athletes in class and make them pass the damn courses. See what the universities can do without their college football money.
Pac-12 Football is irrelevant now.
Lose your free ride. Go ahead, idiots.
Sit it out guys, no problem.
BTW…(for future reference) I will take fries with that.
Let them do it. There are plenty of others who would gladly take their places. Career ending moves are not smart as they will soon figure out.
Yes and enrollment at Mizzou plummeted.
Just excuses for these pampered pansies to hide away for a while longer.
I wonder if their barely functional brains can comprehend how little I really care.
Maybe we should have a tryout call for JC transfers and walk ons.
The culture of entitlement in the current generation of athletes is stunning. This has happened before in the past. In fact, a similar entitlement attitude is what corrupted and ultimately killed the original Olympics Games. We may just be witnessing the start of the decline of sports in our culture.
Don’t pull the scholarship...but make it taxable income. Heh...heh...heh....
I come from a generation where athletes were more concerned with keeping their positions on the squad and winning games than boycotting the playing season.
Seems times have changed.
Ditto!
“— Fight racial injustice”
It appears to me black athletes are the kings of the roost in universities getting great scholarships and now want to get paid... and oh, I forgot, a lot of them graduate into multi-million dollars pro sports jobs and continue to carp. about racial justice.
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