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Wildcat strikes...Will they spread to college football?

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I think there'll be pressure for more protests. I wonder if it will affect college sports, whether the players will follow LeBron's and others' lead...
 
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I think to some degree - however, for a lot of these kids school is where they get their meals and shelter from so it might be more complex than a millionaire athlete refusing to play. I also genuinely believe the kids want to play whereas NBA players are fine with sitting out and still getting paid (not to discredit their genuine concern for social issues)
 
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I think to some degree - however, for a lot of these kids school is where they get their meals and shelter from so it might be more complex than a millionaire athlete refusing to play. I also genuinely believe the kids want to play whereas NBA players are fine with sitting out and still getting paid (not to discredit their genuine concern for social issues)
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Good point but the colleges would be under enormous pressure to keep them whole.
 
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ThomasM said:
The most corrupt politicians of our time created the system that incarcerates the poor at a very high level. People simply need to do a little digging to find who was behind that movement. THAT is where you find the disgusting racism.
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Also Post World War II when citizens were getting major loans to become homeowners, blacks were not given the same opportunities hence impoverished black neighborhoods that still stand today but have been the same way for 80 years.
 
I saw "wildcat" and "spread to college football" and thought Tony Sparano might have come back from the dead.
 
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BeachCanes said:
I think to some degree - however, for a lot of these kids school is where they get their meals and shelter from so it might be more complex than a millionaire athlete refusing to play. I also genuinely believe the kids want to play whereas NBA players are fine with sitting out and still getting paid (not to discredit their genuine concern for social issues)
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Exactly.

Flawed as the NCAA system is, it's still not as warped as the delusion that multi-millionaire athletes posses, in regards to what some of those meathead "activists" think they have the power to change.

In case these self-important athletes, like LeHairline, think the world stops and starts with their actions—news flash, boys—NBA ratings are WAY down.

https://slate.com/culture/2020/08/nba-tv-ratings-china-ethan-strauss-athletic.html

Even with people stuck at home since March, with little to do—people aren't on board with the NBA the way they were pre-COVID.

Incredible how athletes don't realize their game is a business—and with a business, sometimes you have to fall in line or hold your tongue, for the sake of the consumer not turning their back on the product you're selling.

I'm not telling these guys to "shut up and play" by any stretch—but there are repercussion for their actions and the boycotting, the names on the back of jerseys, BLM on the court, etc.—that is turning off a large percentage of the fan base (not because black lives don't matter, but the organization itself is misguided and people turn to sports as a distraction from all the bullsh1t going on in the world. They don't want to be preached too there, as well. They want an escape from reality.)

For some reason these athletes believe they are more important than they are—but in time when people are losing jobs, cities are crumbling, essential workers (doctors, nurses, etc.) put their lives on the line every day, kids are suffering due to quarantine and schools being a disaster since March, et al—the American people have their own personal daily problems and aren't taking kindly to multi-millionaire athletes and the fake-*** bubble the live in (LeHairline's net worth around half a billion dollars, yet trying to come off like he's in the same boat as everyone else.)
 
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