Discussion for article #243770
Oh, good – Right-to-Play legislation. Why not ban public speech, too?
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Funny how the bill of rights seems to ignore the first and move straight on to the second for these guys.
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coming soon to a public university in your state…
“The Return of the Indentured Servitude”
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This is going to go over like a lead balloon. Although Missouri Rethuglicans are unusually stupid, somebody will likely point out that the student athletes will simply transfer to other schools.
There is no way in hell these yahoos are going to dismantle the state’s athletic programs … and live to tell about it.
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Good, maybe these crybabies will be a little more selective about what they whine about, which professors they target, and what they think is worth a protest.
Maybe dismiss a few administrators when they lack the courage to do their jobs, too.
Football is Much more important than education in Missouri. It’s a bluff.
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Say what?
So when you give a kid a scholarship to play football, and he refuses to play as agreed, take the scholarship away and give it to someone who will actually play. Seems fair.
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Well this is messed up. They apparently can’t pay them because they’re not “professionals who work for the university”, but if they don’t act like “professionals who work for the university” (an make the university oodles of cash), they take away their scholarship.
This goes under the category of “well that’s some f’d up logic there”. Lets see how it holds up in court.
It reminds me of the old saying “the whippings will continue until morale improves” normally employed in pirate ships… and corporate America.
I also wonder how many star athletes would transfer out of Missouri universities within the year if the bill passed (and it won’t). It would be funny in a way due to the obvious end result of Missouri ending up with the absolutely suckiest university sports teams in the nation. Shooting themselves in both feet, really.
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The “Owe Me” State.
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This is going to be so awesome for Mizzou’s recruiting efforts. Every coachs’ head for every sport in that department is about to explode. Lulz.
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You miss the point. You can give a scholarship to any number of students and they will get out there and matriculate like crazy. But for a winning & profitable football program they have to hire and keep star quality talent. Even a Missouri legislator ought to be able to understand the benefits of all those Saturday telecasts.
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All of them. But like you noted, it won’t pass. The legislators are about to get a lesson in strong-arm tactics from every NCAA lobbyist in the country and every coach in Missouri (which the kids pronounce misery).
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I get it is a public university but come off of it. If the athletics department did this than it is one thing, but this is that government overreach thing that they usually go on about for ages. The students do have the right to do something like this and in doing they were endangering their positions anyway. If the University would have axed them the outcry would have been rough.
Showing once again that the GOP does not understand human emotion.
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Football players don’t get paid, and don’t get workman’s comp for their injuries. The one thing they do have, if they are smart enough to use it, is social power. I applaud the Mizzou athletes for effectively using the power they do have to address institutional racism at their institution. And I applaud the coach for supporting them.
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Yes, it’s great. The blue chips will step into the limo provided by Nebraska or Iowa, and after a couple of 1 and 10 seasons the GOP will be a distant memory in Missouri politics.
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and preempt the 13th.
someone whose compensation had that kind of restriction would have a pretty good argument he or she was working a job, no?
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Wow, what a good idea. Are you aware that positions on college football teams are highly sought after? While the top 2-3 might be able to transfer, the remaining 70-80 would have no options.
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