Missouri Football Players Refusing to Play

[xubrew]

I don't know all of the specifics. I know that African American students are not happy with the university president due to the racial climate on campus. I don't know if they're accusing him of perpetuating the racism, or of just standing idly by and doing nothing to deal with the racism.

Refusing to play a football game is no small thing. For better or worse, athletics are very conspicuous, and if they simply do not play against BYU, it's going to be impossible for anyone to ignore. The coaches and the AD seem to be with the players, which is interesting since they both ultimately work for the president.

And....we do play Mizzou this year. I don't know what the attitude of the basketball team is, but if the football team is refusing to play, it wouldn't surprise me if other teams decided to do the same....

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...esident-ousted

[GoMuskies]

Having seen Mizzou "play" a few times this year, I think it's cool how they actually started this strike in August but didn't publicly announce it until this weekend.

[Juice]

I don't know all of the specifics. I know that African American students are not happy with the university president due to the racial climate on campus. I don't know if they're accusing him of perpetuating the racism, or of just standing idly by and doing nothing to deal with the racism.

Refusing to play a football game is no small thing. For better or worse, athletics are very conspicuous, and if they simply do not play against BYU, it's going to be impossible for anyone to ignore. The coaches and the AD seem to be with the players, which is interesting since they both ultimately work for the president.

And....we do play Mizzou this year. I don't know what the attitude of the basketball team is, but if the football team is refusing to play, it wouldn't surprise me if other teams decided to do the same....

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...esident-ousted

I think they believe that he is perpetuating the problem by sitting by idly. This isn't going to end well. The list of demands from the student organization that is leading this has some really crazy parts to it.

[Juice]

Having seen Mizzou "play" a few times this year, I think it's cool how they actually started this strike in August bud didn't actually announce it until this weekend.

Well a student did start a hunger strike 3-4 days ago.

[GoMuskies]

Well a student did start a hunger strike 3-4 days ago.

Probably to prevent the world from having to watch any more Missouri football this year.

[Juice]

Probably to prevent the world from having to watch any more Missouri football this year.

Back to back reigning champs of the SEC East, which is a dumpster fire of a division

[muskienick]

It is still possible to be crappy football players and have reasonable expectations from the heads of your university at the same time. The one is not mutually exclusive from the other!

[Strange Brew]

It is still possible to be crappy football players and have reasonable expectations from the heads of your university at the same time. The one is not mutually exclusive from the other!

It's fine if they refuse to play however if they're on athletic scholarship the university should promptly send them a bill for their fall semester classes and accommodations.

By the way a poop swastika is kind of ironic as national socialism as well as racial hatred and genocide are rather, well, poopy.

[bobbiemcgee]

I must be missing something here. A poopy swastika would be anti- semitic. What are the racial charges?

[xubrew]

It's fine if they refuse to play however if they're on athletic scholarship the university should promptly send them a bill for their fall semester classes and accommodations.

By the way a poop swastika is kind of ironic as national socialism as well as racial hatred and genocide are rather, well, poopy.

The athletic director and coaches appear to be backing the players, so I seriously doubt they'll be sending them a bill.