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re: MIZZOU suffers backlash and falling admissions after protests

Posted on 4/26/16 at 6:41 pm to
Posted by Slippy
Across the rivah
Member since Aug 2005
7833 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 6:41 pm to
I work with an ultra-liberal gal, from Missouri, hates Mizzou (calls it a frat boy school), and when I raise this argument, her response is always along the lines of "Poor little snowflakes whose mommies and daddies don't want them to see people protesting....." In other words, she tries to turn the "safe space" argument around on me.

She doesn't get it. This is the market at work. Most middle class folks don't give two shits about the protesters. They simply don't have time for that foolishness and can take their dollars elsewhere. This concept seems lost on my friend.
Posted by 91TIGER
Lafayette
Member since Aug 2006
19630 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 6:41 pm to
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donations to the athletic department were a mere $191,000—down 72% over the same period a year earlier.


Awesome. I hope Pinkel is still in support of this bullshite. He and the administration are getting everything they deserve, and asked for.

Posted by Rockbrc
Attic
Member since Nov 2015
9928 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 6:43 pm to
No other community that I know of has historically supported a university more than Columbia has Mizzou. This has produced an unintended proprietary sense in some students that would not have reaped the same benefits or acceptance elsewhere. The community support is inevitably going to wane now and that is unfortunate for all of the students, not just the idiots responsible for the present mess.
Posted by AUbagman
LA
Member since Jun 2014
11182 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 6:44 pm to
Did they never stop and think how much their degree devalues when negative connotations are attached to it? For the foreseeable future, this is the only thing people will think of when Mizzou is mentioned. I hope the little temper tantrum attention grab was worth it. That school will never be the same.
Posted by JBeam
Guns,Germs & Steel
Member since Jan 2011
68377 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 6:46 pm to
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Awesome. I hope Pinkel is still in support of this bullshite. He and the administration are getting everything they deserve, and asked for.

Did you actually expect an HC to not stand with his players on this issue? Granted, Mizzou's season was already in the shite. But no HC in his right mind would go against his players in this situation.

As far as the admins go. I still think it's stupid that the president resigned over this.
Posted by gmoney504
Member since Apr 2016
384 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 6:46 pm to
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Awesome. I hope Pinkel is still in support of this bull shite. He and the administration are getting everything they deserve, and asked for


He left hey have a new coach
Posted by lsutiger2010
Member since Aug 2008
14790 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 6:50 pm to
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Posted by JBeam
Guns,Germs & Steel
Member since Jan 2011
68377 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 6:50 pm to
As long as TAMU goes with them. I'll sign.
Posted by Bama and Beer
Baldwin Co, AL
Member since Oct 2010
85809 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 6:52 pm to
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How many signatures could we get on a petition to kick Mizzou out the SEC?
1.9 billion
Posted by ugasickem
Allatoona
Member since Nov 2010
12456 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 6:53 pm to
100% not a troll. They need to be kicked out of the SEC. Looks like they are just sucking on the teat after this mess.
Posted by ArkLaTexTiger
Houston
Member since Nov 2009
2572 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 6:54 pm to
Actions have consequences.
Posted by PsychTiger
Member since Jul 2004
110670 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 6:54 pm to
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I've been reading some books on 60's espionage, and there is a surprising amount of discussion about many universities where liberal professors had a lock on jobs - conservatives had no chance.



It's so cute that you thing it is liberal professors when it is clearly aliens.
Posted by bhtigerfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2008
33618 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 6:55 pm to
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This passionate backlash doesn’t appear to have been a bluff. Already,freshman enrollment is down 25%, leaving a $32 million funding gap and forcing the closure of four dorms. The month after the protests, donations to the athletic department were a mere $191,000—down 72% over the same period a year earlier.


Posted by Rougarou4lsu
New Orleans
Member since Oct 2003
3103 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 7:00 pm to
Threaten to boycott another game and the SEC should pull the plug.
Posted by MadtownTiger
Texas
Member since Sep 2010
4428 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 7:01 pm to
Ah that's nice to see. This is what happens when you don't have a backbone, hopefully they get removed from the SEC soon. We don't need this crap in our conference. Hope they go bankrupt and all these shitbirds lose out on their safe space.
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
151554 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 7:05 pm to
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100% not a troll. They need to be kicked out of the SEC. Looks like they are just sucking on the teat after this mess.


You mean like winning the east in '13 and '14.... Poor UGA sucking hind tit behind Mizzou
Posted by Hetfield
Dallas
Member since Jun 2013
10030 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 7:10 pm to
Good. You reap what you sow. I hope the school loses tons of money & students. I knew Pinkel was leaving when he said he supported his idiot players. Please kick these amateurs out of the SEC.
Posted by Duzz
Houston
Member since Feb 2008
10221 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 7:20 pm to
Is it too late to kick them out of the SEC? I thought they were gonna come in and support their own weight but now they will be leeching on us for money because their donation went down. TAMU at least makes money.
Posted by ManBearTiger
BRLA
Member since Jun 2007
22670 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 7:31 pm to
Everyone knows the media will spin this as proof that Mizzou is an awful, racist place right? It's how the media operates- see a small group of malcontents, give them exposure and focus on making them sympathetic figures in the narrative you're spinninng, whip them up into a proper froth until things boil over, and then rush in and say "See, there is a story here!"

They have to spin this as being a fault of the school as an institution, and on a larger scale American society, because otherwise it becomes apparent that the media itself is pretty much creating this racially charged, divisive material for it to report on, rather than actually doing the work of reporting on existing issues and maintaining a seperation and professionalism with regards to their material.
Posted by dagrippa
Saigon
Member since Nov 2004
12171 posts
Posted on 4/26/16 at 7:33 pm to
I'm pissed they are in our conference. I can't imagine actually wanting to go there now.
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