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But Brattin did tell a radio station in Kansas City that “we have a complete train wreck of a university due to their actions.”
Of course, the racist atmosphere and the resulting hunger strike that prompted the players’ proposed strike didn’t bother him at all.
Brattin also did not, apparently, attend college, but he introduced a bill to give equal time to “Creation Theory” in state universities.
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But Brattin did tell a radio station in Kansas City that “we have a complete train wreck of a university due to their actions.”
Son, if you want to see a real train wreck, look no further than your political party, thanks to folks like you.
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Why do the GOP’ers hate free speech so much?
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Looks like someone got a call from the alumni association.
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The Boosters, the SEC, and ESPN all called. He obeyed.
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we have a complete train wreck of a university due to their actions
You must be referring to the previous two university system presidents who, with no academic experience, thought they could run a university system like a business, while treating faculty and staff like peons and ignoring student complaints about the campus climate. Or, maybe you are referring to the legislature, who encouraged the hiring of the previous two presidents, and also thought you can run a university system like a business, and an extension of Right Wing policy by trying to squelch research that doesn’t fit your ideology and ordering the university to revoke admitting privileges to the Planned Parenthood doctors, as a backdoor way of stopping them from performing safe, legal abortions.
Surely you can’t be referring to students, faculty and staff exercising their First Amendment Rights? I mean writing a bill that targets student athletes who want to express themselves in a peaceful, Constitutional manner, and the coach that backed their legal, Constitutional decision would be exceptionally punitive, small and unconstitutional in America. Why the politician that did that might suffer a huge backlash from freedom-loving Americans, including those in his district.
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Here’s a picture of the pretty representative!
https://www.google.com/search?q=Rep.+Rick+Brattin+(R),+photo&rlz=1C1GGGE_enUS631US631&espv=2&biw=1184&bih=530&tbm=isch&imgil=gvURCZFDAgUBuM%3A%3BoPXpha4l4coHnM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.forwardprogressives.com%252Fneed-an-abortion-in-missouri-rep-rick-brattin-wants-you-to-get-permission-first%252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=gvURCZFDAgUBuM%3A%2CoPXpha4l4coHnM%2C_&usg=-V0VDTg0xg8wQwNBKtNT1bSAWpg%3D&ved=0ahUKEwiT-MPrguHJAhUL9mMKHQMVCfIQyjcINQ&ei=D69xVtO0CYvsjwODqqSQDw#imgrc=gvURCZFDAgUBuM%3A&usg=-V0VDTg0xg8wQwNBKtNT1bSAWpg%3D
Exactly. You don’t f*ck with football. You just don’t do it.
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That’s really an awful mess you left there. Here’s a few suggestions about how to avoid that in future:
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Whenever you’re about to link to a picture you’ve found on Google Images, you should try ‘saving to a new tab’, then checking to see if the URL address is really long and out of control like yours is here, or neat and tidy.
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You can always copy the URL address then paste it into a URL shortener such as tiny.cc, which then yields a nice short hyperlink.
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You can use TPM Discussions’ own tools above, in particular the one in the fourth position from the left between I and " that looks like a link in a chain (Get it? A “link”. Copy the URL address of the picture then activate the tool above then paste the URL address into the space provided - you can even give it your own title - and voila, you’ve created a hyperlink.
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You can just “copy image” then paste into a message space here. If you are going to do it this way, tho, you really should take a little time on Google Images to make sure you’ve picked the smallest picture you can justify, or else you’ll freak everyone out.
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…i.e. MO FB would suck even more without the scholarship athletes…
If you could force red-staters make a choice between football and their guns, they would die where they stand, from massive cerebral overload and panic. Someone let this fact lapse from their focus. It won’t happen again.
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Especially not FBS Division 1 football you don’t. I’m sure the Athletic Director and the head coach make several times what this state legislator does, and that football covers a significant part of the university’s costs. Moreover, you start cutting the scholarships of any players who are halfway decent and some other Division 1 university will snap them up before they can clean out their lockers. College football is a dog-eat-dog world.
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Who would have thought Mizzou would fit into the SEC so well?
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You know how much money these kids bring the school and state? LOL. Better butter them the fuck up instead of knock em down if you want your school to stay floating financially. That SEC $$ is no joke!
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Here’s the pic. Looks like he would know how to get a university back on track.
http://www.forwardprogressives.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Rick-Brattin.jpg
Why didn’t the stupid hick just call them “those people.” It’s all “their” fault. What a schmuck.
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Maybe he realized what he was doing was superfluous, because the NCAA is a corrupt organization already set up as a plantation system where the athletes take all the hits and the coaches and school Presidents make millions. The athletes don’t even get guaranteed four year scholarships!
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I always wondered why Mizzou wanted to leave the Big 12. I guess being in a conference with Texas and Oklahoma schools just wasn’t backwards enough. States like OK, Kansas and Iowa never even had slavery. Now they gt to visit Mississippi and Alabama on a regular basis
Now, imagine trying to recruit black athletes when you are the only state with such a law. I’ll bet that lawmaker’s head is still spinning from the backlash.
If MU is set up like most of the big football schools, the football program pays for most of the athletic department expenses, but almost none of the academic side of the school.
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I’m sure someone pointed out that the state doesn’t fund the athletic scholarships. The Tiger Scholarship Fund pays for athletics scholarships.