Hoo, boy. This ought to be something.
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UPDATE: “That’s what makes America great,” Richt said at his weekly news conference, “and I think that he handled it well.”
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UPDATE #2: And now, the players.
The power wielded by Missouri’s football program did not go unnoticed inside Georgia’s practice facility.
“It’s extremely powerful, that athletics, students on the football team, could have that much of an impact,” senior tight end Jay Rome said.
Rome said he’d consider partaking in a football boycott if the situation was important and called for it…
… With the Missouri football team helping campus protesters achieve the ouster of Wolfe and Loftin, Georgia receiver Malcolm Mitchell said it shows the kind of platform that college athletes can have when it comes to taking a stand on an issue.
“I think that opens the door for a lot of teams to come together and rally behind whatever it is they stand for,” Mitchell said. “The football team is its own community on universities – and obviously with a lot of power as we saw in Missouri. I think we’ll see that more often now.”
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Given the distraction for Mizzou’s team and coaches, I expect them to get beat this weekend by the oldest college football team in America, BYU.
Old Man Football, indeed.
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It is called Fascism. Political Correctness run completely nuts. Respect our space or we will kick your ass in our safety zone. How safe does that make you feel?
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Wharrgarbl!
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So Mark Richt has the trains running on time?
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That’s sure as hell not what I read here, Audit.
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+1
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The liberal mind–especially on campus–is closing very quickly. Freedom of speech is no longer valued by many. I bet there are so many professors across the country regretting how much they’ve messed up in the educating of their students. I still think it’s a small minority, but the demands and actions of some of these students over one or two actions among a student body of 35,000 is ridiculous.
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No good can come of this.
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Right here, buddy!
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4 million.
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I’m starving to hear this. As a matter of fact I demand to hear it.
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“That’s what makes America great,”
Where’s my hat?
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Everyone please remember tomorrow and touch base with your local and family vets. Remember, they are still out there and in harm’s way in many instances.
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+1,000,000 or more
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Right on brother! God Bless our veterans!
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So if the majority of Georgia players go on strike and insist that Richt be fired……
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More likely the players back Richt 100% against B-M. Richt is well liked and respected by his players and former players.
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If the majority of players went on strike to insist Richt be fired, then I’m sure he would be. I’m sure most any coach would be.
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Well….what if he gets fired and the players vow to go on strike and not practice or play until he is reinstated? Just askin.’
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Oh snap. I would love to see that happen. Not necessarily because I like Richt (which I do), but because I’d love to see Richt-haters have a conniption.
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The butthurt of those who want a shiny new coach would be epic.
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I’d like to introduce you to Mark Mangino and Jim Leavitt.
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Richt from ABH on Missouri situation:
“Just from what I saw, there was some things that were going on that shouldn’t have been going on,” Richt said. “And sounds like they weren’t being addressed properly. And you know, when that happens, things need to get fixed.”
Like special teams?
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No. ST is always in a suspended state of Committee animation
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Maybe Collin Barber and the punt returner have been on strike all year. In the Florida game, if Davis had been on strike, maybe we would have only lost 7-3.
Would that make Ramsey a scab?
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purgatory, with all the unbaptized babies?
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If Richt were in the same situation, I’d say he’d back the administration 100%
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Yep, and I would say, “what a stoopid comment”. DA.
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The genie is out of the bottle and he ain’t going back in. Once people get a taste of power ( blood ) things don’t go back to the way they were. The first thing they should demand is health ins for football related injuries for the rest of their lives.
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Plus free tuition, room and board for any family member….and cake..or pie. Whichever is less offensive.
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Pie. Vanilla cake is offensive to college kids who haven’t started paying taxes.
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What is the meltdown of which you speak, there, Bluto?
Comments?
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I feel confident that Richt suspects Brice Ramsey of swastipoo art. His shaved head was the giveaway.
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It’s not Swastipoo, it’s Pootika. Everybody knows that.
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“Judean People’s Front!”
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So, his words don’t reflect that position at all but you just thought you would take a contrarian position anyway? Got it….totally shocked. Any some wonder why it’s called the lunatic fringe.
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Mac, who is your comment directed at?
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Sorry, at TN Dawg.
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I don’t get the Meltdown reference.
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it seems out of place since this post isn’t about our special teams.
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Meltdown = A domino effect of college athletes sitting on their hands and not taking the field or court until they get their way, in 3,2,1
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See what I’m sayin’ is if it were a sandwich, ESPN and the Players are the bread, and the university receiving large funds is the meat. Thus a really big sandwich. Except the Universities insist on a low carb diet and as anyone who has ever attempted such a diet knows it only lasts so long. Amirite?
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There’s no need to bring Jared Fogel into this
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this has so many double entendres I don’t know where to begin… lol.
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Jay Rome might have more standing if he were to catch some footballs.
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He’s on strike from catching touchdown passes. #fieldgoalsmatter
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LOL
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We’re we applauding Chris Conley last year for his involvement/athlete representation with the NCAA? But let the 1982 NFL strike bear a lesson…the guy that can hold out the longest, wins. If SA’s get locked out of training facilities, scholarship money, etc. they lose football and an education. The schools would just lose a little $$$, but will be back next season. My guess is we’ll see a strike that goes badly for everyone before this lesson gets learned (again).
How did the players at Grambling fare after their walk-out?
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In a matter of hours every student on campus will be signing some kind of document that will empower the university to deny benefits for cause. The language will surely include provisions to protect the university athletic association against the financial penalties from any kind of strike. They’ll make sure that athletes will lose scholarships if they refuse to honor their contractual obligations.
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I’ve read all the stuff about ncaa and universities not being able to yank scholarships, I am certain that many lawyers are currently wrestling with it, athletic associations are certainly very concerned right now, not to mention conference commissioners and ESPN, etc..
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This university can’t get a contract signed with its most important revenue generating athletic department employee in eleven months. You think they are capable of doing anything in a matter of hours?
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Yeah. All they have to do is order the players to do it and if they don’t–yank their scholarships.
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For the last decade or so I have supported finding a way to compensate players for their play and also they should be able to somehow make money from their names. Autographs etc. I would leave the details to someone more savy and smarter than I. What the Mizzou football team did this weekend was swing the pendulum all the way in the other direction. By getting the president fired they put every program on notice as to who has the power. Make no mistake they may have doubted how much power they had before but not anymore. If they get organized no one knows where this could land. This train could run completely off the rails before it finds it equilibrium. Yikes
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The reason the pendulum has swung the other way is that the players are not paid. There is an asymmetry in risk that is currently in the players favor. The players lose the potential to have a scholarship while the schools have the golden goose at stake. If this situation was like the NFL, where there was something like an NFL salary at risk for the players, they would not wield such power.
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Equilibrium is a subjective term. I’m sure the courts will figure it out. And that’s another reason why elections matter.
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Its simple really, each player has a % of (jersey sales, ads, ticket rev, etc) go into a trust. The money is transferred to the student once he graduates, if he leaves for the pros early, he forfeits that money and it stays with the university.
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John, I think that is quite reasonable, I would also stipulate that if they take it they reimburse the university for their tuition, room and board.
As far as players striking, this feeling of empowerment I am afraid can only end badly. At the very least we already know those players who threatened to strike alienated alot of their teammates and I suspect trust and respect will be in issue in their locker room the rest of this year. Long term if this kind of behavior is not nipped in the bud I think it will lead to the end of college football.
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Beyond the one anonymous player who spoke to ESPN, what else do we “know”?
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And that one anonymous player gave it the typical ‘lots of people feel that way’ comment but wouldn’t say anything definite.
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It was probably Mauk. Lol.
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That dude’s been on strike for most of the season.
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There is no way the team was unanimous in supporting the boycott. Of course some players were pissed about it. There is no way 85 people are going to agree on anything. My group has 20 people in it an you could not get all of us to agree that it is cold at the fucking North Pole. Having said that, I think it is great those guys stood up for what they think is right. Peaceful protest is one of our most sacred rights. The greedy bastards that run CFB ( AD’s, coaches, university presidents, NCAA, etc. ) created this monster. Fuck’em.
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Human nature being what it is, I tend to agree with you. But that’s a long way from “knowing” in the Ellis sense.
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Yes, what else do we “know”? Hmmm……
We know this:
http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/columns/joe-holleman/mizzou-hunger-strike-figure-from-omaha-son-of-top-railroad/article_20630c03-2a68-5e63-9585-edde16fe05f3.html
We know this:
http://www.weaselzippers.us/239165-mizzou-student-body-president-spreads-false-rumor-of-kkk-on-campus-he-was-same-student-who-claimed-racial-slur/
We know this:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paytonhead (Chicago Office of the Mayor, I’m shocked!)
But lets get back to the question what else do we “know”?:
http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/10/was-the-poop-swastika-incident-at-mizzou-a-giant-hoax/
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What does any of that have to do with the football team?
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Sounds like they got scammed, too.
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Yeah, I’m sure they woke up this morning with a huge case of buyer’s remorse.
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Thank you for exposing this obvious ploy for attention and division. Some people only prosper when the rest of us are at each others’ throats. If universities are such racist and horrible places, why are we demanding every child go there?
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Ellis, Pinkel told the press he had the team tweet to him what they wanted to do and it was unanimous. The players backed each other and were backed in turn by Pinkel. He could have remained on the sideline until the team returned, but he probably had feelings of support for their issue in the first place.
So, why haven’t some of you seen the obvious comment; that of Pinkel supporting a strike against his own administration’s bosses? Lordy, the power that football coaches have is as Gee said it was; he was lucky that he wasn’t fired by Tressel. Would think that could match “meltdown” language used by some here that is sarcastically referred to by Bluto.
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Slippery slope indeed, this type of wildcat action is even more dangerous than the Northwestern unionization attempt. The predictions for this getting out of control seem very likely. Wonder if Pinkle acted independently, or approached the AD before speaking out about players’ actions? I can see him expressing strong support for the school to take immediate action to address the issues but approving the “walkout” was reckless.
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According to the AJC, for what it is worth, the athlete in the center of this is a former walk on and PHD candidate who played at UGA as a walk on and received a scholarship.
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He has obviously been oppressed by the man.
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Yes, amazing how they are able to endure such a tough existence.
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And I remember his name being called after hitting guys on kickoffs. He made a few plays while on the team. I recall that he was a damned good Dawg. So now is he viewed as a sorehead for standing up like a man in the face of personal criticism for what he felt was a wrong? He is just as strong in character as any soldier who walks out to do his duty when he knows there are people with guns waiting to shoot at him, except his character is not held in the same esteem as the soldier when he doesn’t receive fire, but instead receives disdain and a smear at his name. And it looks like Faloughi will get a higher degree of learning than over 90% of us posting.
He who steals my purse, steals nothing. He who steals my good name, steals everything. Ben Franklin out of “Poor Richard’s Almanac”.
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Debby, I read that article earlier in the day, now I can’t find it. Do you have a link?
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https://www.dawgnation.com/football/opinion/ex-georgia-player-faloughi-at-center-of-missouri-protests quotes a Jeff Schulz column
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Alabama Football vs. The Machine.
Soak that one up.
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