College athletes making a stand (1 Viewer)

[MLU]

UCLA football players have insisted that protocols be put into place to protect them from COVID19 and the school to use a third party to monitor them. They are also asking for whistleblower protection for athletes and staff who want to report violations of guidelines and the ability to make decisions in regard to personal health without consequences in terms of loss of scholarship. The school is listening to them and will meet with the players.

Now, HC Mike Gundy has been spotted wearing an OAN tshirt. Chuba Hubbard responds with a veiled threat to boycott OSU.

IMO, real changes have been held back by players unwilling to stand out. Are we seeing that change now as players start to realize the power they actually hold?

 

[saintmdterps]

It's sad that the players feel they have to take this step to protect themselves, and that they can't trust the university to act in their best interests as opposed to acting in the best (financial) interests of the university.

Concussions and now COVID. Players are starting to realize that in the eyes of the NCAA they are nothing more than straw dogs.

 

[MLU]

After Kylin Hill says he's not going to play football until the MS flag is changed, a contingent of MS coaches and ADs are heading to Jackson, MS to convince people it's time to enter the 20th century. Lane Kiffen is getting the headline, but sounds like Leach, Bianco, etc. both ADs and others are going to make the visit. Perhaps the players at both schools are talking about following Hill and this is a way of trying to hold off a mass exodus of athletes?

 

[Domeination]

My son goes to UT Austin and double majors in physics and astronomy, and they just changed the name of the physics building in part b/c football players were protesting, as it had been named after a physics professor who refused to let black students in his class after the university was integrated, Robert Lee Moore. Well, Robert is no more. It's now the Physics, Math, and Astronomy Building.