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re: Joe Burrow calling out LSU professor
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:43 pm to Geaux_Tigers_08
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:43 pm to Geaux_Tigers_08
Like most professors, Robert Mann is a woke SJW. Who gives a shite what he thinks?
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Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:44 pm to Geaux_Tigers_08
Robert Mann was communications director for Kathleen Blanco when she was governor. Need I say more?
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:44 pm to Geauxgurt
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That said, it is a sad state of affairs when we spend as much on collegiate athletics as we do in this country. It's not about the money going to education, and moreso just the absurdity of it all.
When millions of people tune in to watch Bob Mann give a shitty mass comm lecture, then he’ll have big time donors looking to pour millions into his facilities. That’s how non-socialist countries work. It’s not absurd at all from a financial standpoint, any more than the fact that cities reroute traffic and build huge concert venues to draw in top performers.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:44 pm to Geauxgurt
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He left tOSU because he athletically wasn't going to be a starter on the football team last year
so what?
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His decision had nothing to do with academics. That's my point.
nice pivot
your original comment
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Burrow is also not the kind of person to use as an example of student athlete. He clearly went to college to play football and not to get an education.
But to your new point, you don't think it was a good decision to go somewhere that provided him with multiple options post-college rather than one? Or should he have just quit football and eliminated one of his options?
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:44 pm to skullhawk
F King has publicly encouraged this sentiment. That’s the difference.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:44 pm to Geauxgurt
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I know that. tOSU has a significantly higher rated business school than LSU.
And?
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He left tOSU because he athletically wasn't going to be a starter on the football team last year. His decision had nothing to do with academics. That's my point.
So had he transferred to Harvard, you would have been okay with it?
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:44 pm to Geauxgurt
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I know that. tOSU has a significantly higher rated business school than LSU.
I told you, all the power to the kid. He left tOSU because he athletically wasn't going to be a starter on the football team last year. His decision had nothing to do with academics. That's my point.
Thats the most retarded thing ive heard in a while.
It had to do with athletics AND football. He made a decision that was informed by both goals. He maximized BOTH opportunities.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:45 pm to lsufball19
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so you picked a guy who graduated in 3 years to make an example of?
Again, his decision to leave tOSU was motivated by football. He went to LSU so he could start at a top tier program. He didn't come to LSU because their of their MBA program.
Again, I am not harping on his reasoning. It's the fact that the student aspect of College sports for football, basketball, and baseball are focused very little on the student part.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:47 pm to lsufball19
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But to your new point, you don't think it was a good decision to go somewhere that provided him with multiple options post-college rather than one? Or should he have just quit football and eliminated one of his options?
I didn't pivot. The nature of a student-athlete in its original intent was not meant to be used as a track to get into professional sports. It was an opportunity for a route to an education. The education is the main goal, not the sport.
So no, I didn't pivot.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:48 pm to Geauxgurt
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's the fact that the student aspect of College sports for football, basketball, and baseball are focused very little on the student part.
Wait....hold up....so a student athlete maximizes his potential as both a student and an athlete and you are poking holes in it. Why cant he make decision that benefit his athletics AFTER he completed his role as a student?
He graduated dude. He got a degree. the rest is gravy.
quote:HE ACHIEVED THAT GOAL YOU STUPID frick.
t was an opportunity for a route to an education. The education is the main goal
This post was edited on 7/22/19 at 4:49 pm
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:48 pm to Geauxgurt
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Again, his decision to leave tOSU was motivated by football
so what? You also said he doesn't care about education. If he didn't care about education, he wouldn't have graduated in three years, which opened up a lot more opportunities for him he wouldn't have had otherwise. Isn't that the purpose of going to school?
What if a band major transferred schools because he wasn't going to have a chance to perform but could somewhere else. What if that same person wanted to pursue a career in music and thought he'd have better opportunities elsewhere? Does that person not care about their education? Or are you just singling out athletes because you hate them?
Burrow is a model student athlete whether you care to accept it or not.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:48 pm to Geauxgurt
You should just quietly duck out this thread and hope no one remembers you from it
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:49 pm to Geauxgurt
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The nature of a student-athlete in its original intent was not meant to be used as a track to get into professional sports. It was an opportunity for a route to an education
So one can't do both like Burrow?
With this line of thinking, no athlete who goes to LSU for anything outside a few select majors take education seriously because there are better academic colleges out there. Yes, sports can create avenues to better things and greater opportunities. That's kind of the point of being a student athlete. Most of these guys never would have had these opportunities without sports. But to pick a guy like Burrow who takes full advantage of his athletic gifts for the betterment of his education as well as his potential as a professional athlete, gtfo
This post was edited on 7/22/19 at 4:54 pm
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:49 pm to Geaux_Tigers_08
I had Mann as a professor in the mid-late 90s.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:50 pm to Geaux_Tigers_08
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Robert Mann @RTMannJr · 17h Meanwhile, across campus, I vacuum my faculty office with a Dust Devil I bought at Walmart.
Sounds like this guy needs a new office.
Maybe at Baton Rouge Community college.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:50 pm to Geaux_Tigers_08
Joe is right and Eric Reid is right.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:51 pm to Geauxgurt
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I didn't pivot. The nature of a student-athlete in its original intent was not meant to be used as a track to get into professional sports. It was an opportunity for a route to an education. The education is the main goal, not the sport.
Correct. Which is why 80+% of the athletes in Football, Baseball, and Basketball from LSU never sniff a professional contract. And why you see so many of them as successful physicians, dentists, media personalities, business-owners, etc.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:51 pm to ZIGG
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Robert Mann is a woke SJW
Pretty much
Scroll through his twitter feed and its like 50+ tweets and retweets of nothing but "Trump is a evil racist Nazi REEEEE"
And that's just the past 2 days
Kinda feel sorry for him actually
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:52 pm to Geauxgurt
Oh frick off.
Posted on 7/22/19 at 4:56 pm to Geaux_Tigers_08
Burrow isn’t alone.
Robert Mann is as big a TPOS as has ever existed.
He’s a lying, intellectually dishonest coward and the fact that he mooches off taxpayers for a living is a disgrace to the state of Louisiana.
Robert Mann is as big a TPOS as has ever existed.
He’s a lying, intellectually dishonest coward and the fact that he mooches off taxpayers for a living is a disgrace to the state of Louisiana.
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