Missouri Football Players Go On Strike To Force Removal Of School President

Suberzat1 said:
But you didn't answer it. And it's still a point of getting some quality coaches/equipment not saying all HBCUs coaches are bad but look how Gambling did Doug.
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I said in my very first post that HBCUs are in the same conferences...so why would you ask me what conferences would they play in?
 
The President just resigned. The students and athletes got their first demand answered.

Glad to see them taken seriously.
 
pretty tony said:
Suberzat1 said:
But you didn't answer it. And it's still a point of getting some quality coaches/equipment not saying all HBCUs coaches are bad but look how Gambling did Doug.
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I said in my very first post that HBCUs are in the same conferences...so why would you ask me what conferences would they play in?
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......cause they all won't be playing against each other.
Like I said they would need to figure out a few conferences for majority of them to play in. Why would I still want to play against Alright teams thats not going to get make me better.
 
Suberzat1 said:
......cause they all won't be playing against each other.
Like I said they would need to figure out a few conferences for majority of them to play in. Why would I still want to play against Alright teams thats not going to get make me better.
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Fam...what part of this are you not understanding?

I'm talking about talent being distributed amongst multiple teams in the same two conferences.

Why are you asking me what conference would they be playing in? What do you mean they wouldn't be playing against each other? The teams wouldnt be "alright teams" anymore. Since this is hard for you to understand...They'd essentially be doing the same thing they're already doing...at HBCUs instead.
 
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[h1]University of Missouri president quits after faculty walks out[/h1]
The University of Missouri's president, Tim Wolfe, resigned Monday morning in the face of a walkout by faculty and a strike by football players who said he had done too little to combat racism on campus.

The faculty walkout came as the Missouri Students Association formally called for Wolfe's ouster on Monday.

Before Wolfe's resignation, the faculty group issued a statement: "We, the concerned faculty of the University of Missouri, stand in solidarity with the Mizzou student activists who are advocating for racial justice on our campus and urge all MU faculty to demonstrate their support by walking out on Monday November 9 and Tuesday November 10, 2015  along with other allies such as the Forum on Graduate Rights," organizers of the faculty walkout said in a statement.

The resignation came as the systems Board of Curators were set to hold an emergency meeting on Monday morning in Columbia to discuss the growing crisis on the Columbia, Mo., campus.

Students complaining about racially-fraught campus environment began protests at the university on Sept. 24, but the tense situation on campus has only recently begun to gain national attention.

More than 30 members of Missouri's football team announced Saturday that they would no longer take part in football-related activities while Wolfe was in power. Missouri football coach Gary Pinkel canceled practiced on Sunday and wrote on Twitter that he backed their efforts to force change at the school.

The football players joined the protest after graduate student Jonathan Butler began a hunger strike one week ago. Butler said the strike would either end with Wolfe leaving his post or Butler dying.

"As the Executive Cabinet of the undergraduate student government, representing the 27,000 undergraduates at the University of Missouri's flagship institution, we formally demand the immediate removal of the UM System President Tim Wolfe," the student association wrote in a letter to the Board of Curators, which oversees the University of Missouri's four statewide campuses.

The Concerned Faculty group said late Sunday night that faculty members would stage a "teach in" at Carnahan Quadrangle, the epicenter of a protest and where Wolfe was slated to meet with the Board of Curators Monday morning.

Students pointed to several recent events on campus that underscore a hostile environment for black students.

Student government president Payton Head, who is black, said in September that people in a passing pickup truck shouted racial slurs at him. In early October, members of a black student organization said slurs were hurled at them by an apparently drunken white student. In addition, a swastika drawn in feces was found recently in a dormitory bathroom.

Many of the protests have been led by an organization called Concerned Student 1950, which gets its name from the year the university accepted its first black student.

The movement comes more than a year after a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, spurring a national protest. The St. Louis suburb is about 120 miles from the Columbia campus.

In their letter on Monday, student government leaders pointed to the university officials "silence" in the aftermath of Ferguson as exacerbating tensions on campus.

"In August 2014, the University of Missouri met the shooting of Michael Brown with silence," the student government leaders said in their letter. "In the following months, our students were left stranded, forced to face an increase in tension and inequality with no systemic support. Over the last 16 months, the quality of life for our students has only worsened."

In a statement Sunday, Wolfe didn't mention resigning but said, "It is clear to all of us that change is needed." He said the university administration had been meeting "around the clock" on how to address the campus issues.

http://college.usatoday.com/2015/11...ouri-president-quits-after-faculty-walks-out/
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It'll take a lot of dough to start getting 4/5 star recruits to HBCUs.
Good riddance to Wolfe.
 
pretty tony said:
Suberzat1 said:
......cause they all won't be playing against each other.
Like I said they would need to figure out a few conferences for majority of them to play in. Why would I still want to play against Alright teams thats not going to get make me better.
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Fam...what part of this are you not understanding?

I'm talking about talent being distributed amongst multiple teams in the same two conferences.

Why are you asking me what conference would they be playing in? What do you mean they wouldn't be playing against each other? The teams wouldnt be "alright teams" anymore. Since this is hard for you to understand...They'd essentially be doing the same thing they're already doing...at HBCUs instead.
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We on the same page but you worded your previous post differently then what you are saying. Also I kinda stop read once you posted this

(These schools also mostly play in the same conferences too so the competition level would be SKY HIGH and nobody would give two ***** about watching the ACC, SEC, etc.)

And went to post. My b.

Kinda wish Texas Southern could have done more with their season last year
 
Also believe the coaching staff and universities would have to be prepared for these tier players.
 
Damn football really is serious business :lol: ....nice to see the players take a stand and get something done :pimp:
 
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funny because their offense has been on strike the whole season
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Wolfe let the tension simmer instead of stamping it out when the first incident happened and he's out of a job. Oklahoma set the example on how to do this the right way.
 
thing im most puzzled by is the description of racist events that occurred on campus. If these were lone wolfe(pun) attacks, how does a university counter these type of actions from a policy stand point?

You can of course be proactive, which im sure will be the first result to come out of this. But if something else pops off, where does the accountability fall?

How can the university protect itself and how can the students have expectations met if something else occurs?
 
Ace Rawstein said:
thing im most puzzled by is the description of racist events that occurred on campus. If these were lone wolfe(pun) attacks, how does a university counter these type of actions from a policy stand point?

You can of course be proactive, which im sure will be the first result to come out of this. But if something else pops off, where does the accountability fall?

How can the university protect itself and how can the students have expectations met if something else occurs?
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I don't think all the specifics are out there but from my understanding you had racists actions happening and little to nothing was being done about it. You have students committing hate crimes on campus you need to expell them immediately, especially at a publicly funded institution. Not sit on your hands and hope it goes away. University can't stop the ignorant from being ignorant but they can certainly let it be know what will be tolerated and what wont. I bet you expell a couple kids and the rest will, at the very least, keep their hate to themselves.

I don't think there needs to be a discussion about school policy when it comes to feces swastikas. It should be pretty clear that someone who does that does not belong at any university.
 
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FrankMatthews said:
I don't think all the specifics are out there but from my understanding you had racists actions happening and little to nothing was being done about it. You have students committing hate crimes on campus you need to expell them immediately, especially at a publicly funded institution. Not sit on your hands and hope it goes away. University can't stop the ignorant from being ignorant but they can certainly let it be know what will be tolerated and what wont. I bet you expell a couple kids and the rest will, at the very least, keep their hate to themselves.

I don't think there needs to be a discussion about school policy when it comes to feces swastikas. It should be pretty clear that someone who does that does not belong at any university.
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This. From what I understand the school administration pretty much ignored the issues and it wasn't until the 1950 group started becoming more vocal did they do anything.
 
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