Friday, December 16, 2016

It's time to basically shut down college sports.

Let's be blunt about it.

These little boys, in programs all over the nation, are out of fucking control.
  • The University of Minnesota may be thrown out of the Holiday Bowl (AND DAMN WELL SHOULD BE!!!) after the team has threatened a boycott after ten players were suspended earlier this week after a season-long Title IX sexual assault investigation.  It does require an NCAA approval (WHY?  The NCAA doesn't sanction the bowls in the first place!!!), but the replacement school is known (Northern Illinois) and would be able to play if the decision were reached in about the next two days.
Forget the goddamn boycott.  This should already be happening.  The Minnesota Golden Gophers should forfeit all wins from this season because of ineligibility.  This investigation was being discussed on the Big Ten Network's coverage of their game with Oregon State, their first game of the season!!

Hence, none of the wins are valid, and they need to be on the horn with the NCAA (I guess...) and Northern Illinois to make it happen, or there's no game.

Period.

But don't we seem to be getting a lot of this in college sports this fall?

Of course, since most of the teams I am about to list are "lesser teams", they can shut these down easily?
  • Harvard:  Men's Soccer Team gone.  Lewd comments about the women's soccer team.
  • Princeton:  Men's Swimming and Diving Team gone.  Lewd, Misogynistic, and Racist comments found on electronic media.
  • Amherst College (Massachusetts):  Men's Cross-Country Team gone.  Racist, Misogynistic, and Homophobic comments.
  • Columbia University:  Wrestling Team gone.  Racist, Misogynistic, and Homophobic text messages.
And if we're finding out about this much of it, how much more is going on where sports are actually of value?

Is it also of little coincidence that all four of these schools are academic institutions who only very-peripherally have sports programs?

But, especially as the country becomes far more racist, homophobic, misogynistic and Trump-nationalistic, maybe it's just time we take this experiment of college sports and render it to the dustbin of history...

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