re: Michelle Beadle is done with CFB and the NFL (updated)

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P.S. : And if you turn to college football coaches for some sense of morality then idk what to tell you. You're pretty dumb.


If we keep looking up to celebrities and known sports figures as examples of how to act, then we wont get very far.

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That's not really her point. Her point is top tier football in America has shown that it chooses success over punishing reprehensible behavior.

Had Meyer been an average coach, he would be have been fired and blacklisted from the game, but he's got some championships so we're just going to slap him on the wrist.

Had his assistant been average, Meyer probably would have fired him as well upon finding out the news that he abused his wife. But better to keep a good coach to continue winning and sweep that under the rug.

I'm not going to stop watching the sport and I'm not advocating other people to stop either, but that's easy for me to say as a guy. There are plenty of stories of domestic abuse (and things much worse) in major American sports. I don't blame women for being disgusted with the sport when it has shown that winning is more important than treating women with respect.

Most of this board was all in favor of JoePa getting his shite because he was complicit in letting Sandusky stick around, but Meyer gets a pass? Sure, you could argue that child rape is much more heinous than spousal abuse, but that's just marginalizing it. Whether one is worse or not is irrelevant. There are no circumstances where spousal abuse is alright and we shouldn't be giving people a slap on the wrist when they are complicit in allowing it to continue.