re: What Laundry said was not a big deal

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Im sure he thinks the football team should be out there too. I agree with him.

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Have you felt that way for the last 40+ years about the football team or was it such as a passionate issue that you didn’t even realize they weren’t on the field for the anthem until yesterday?

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The sad part is, it actually worked.

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Well I have to say I sat out the last LA Governors election, as an Independent I can't vote in any primary and in the General Election I couldn't vote for the modern DEM party at all (if Truman or JFK type DEM were running against Landry, then I would have voted for that candidate), but at the same time Landry's mindsight is like Atilla the Hun, reactionary nut job. Nothing like the Reagan GOP that I once proudly embraced who while Conservative could sit down with the SOH Tip O'Neil (Union Dem from Boston) and discuss things civilly.

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He didn't take a shot at LSU tho. He just said he thinks players should have to be out there.

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He had his opportunity to have LSU’s back. He didn’t. He went out there like the uninformed idiot he is to do some political grandstanding.

Putting his career first. Par for the course for Jeff Landry

he's virtue signalling to the fudds

I don’t think Landry should have gone as far as he did, but I don’t think he will walk around with a rapist name on his person(ex. Brees with Jacob Blake). He will likely stand on his comments.

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not word for word, but that was the point he was trying to make

Actual quote was

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If they don't want to come out for the anthem they don't have to play the sport"

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He actually said it very explicitly in the tweet that started all of this:

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It is time that all college boards, including Regent, put a policy in place that student athletes be present for the national anthem or risk their athletic scholarship! This is a matter of respect that all collegiate coaches should instill.

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Football team is never out there for the anthem. He’s making a fool of himself

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It’s different sport with different logistics, a lot more people involved to leave and then Come back that quickly, band pre-game followed by the run out, and length of time in locker rooms before the game. I also think both teams aren’t on the field for it.

Some football teams do have the anthem after the teams come out that final time before kick off, but I don’t recall LSU’s history on this or the SEC’s. I can see some coaches wanting to run out and start coin flip and kick off fairly quickly while players are still hyped up.

It is pretty amazing though how often football has been compared to women’s basketball the past several days on The Rant.

The policy should be the same for both teams playing in the game regardless of going to lockers or staying out for the anthem.

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What Laundry said was not a big deal
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not word for word, but that was the point he was trying to make

Actual quote was
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If they don't want to come out for the anthem they don't have to play the sport"

He actually said it very explicitly in the tweet that started all of this:
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It is time that all college boards, including Regent, put a policy in place that student athletes be present for the national anthem or risk their athletic scholarship! This is a matter of respect that all collegiate coaches should instill.

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We are going back to the days of all Let me Help you John McKeithen and Edwin Edwards and Dave Treen as well when the LSU BOS policy was dictated by the Governor, which is actually a problem I would think in State Law and something that Accrediting Bodies look at with disdain

The LSU BOS is constitutionally charged to govern LSU, not Landry, you would think he would know that. He gets to appoint the BOS but the Senate confirms them.

It is not his job to dictate LSU AD Policy, that is Woodward's job.

Clown show.

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That's unconstitutional and damn near fascist

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Calm down.

I don't necessarily agree with him on the scholarship thing. But if an organization like the SEC or NCAA makes it mandatory the players have every right to chose not to play and collect their NIL monies.

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Oh, say, can you see
By the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hail'd
At the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars
Through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watch'd
Were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare
The bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night
That our flag was still there
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free
And the home of the brave?

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There's nothing political about this song.

There was no need for him to stick his foot in his big mouth.