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How will "No Voice - No Play" affect the upcoming College Football Season?

Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:48 pm
Posted by Delupe
Member since Oct 2025
548 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:48 pm
Chat on several message boards indicate a growing possibility that many black college athletes will boycott games during the upcoming football and basketball season as a means to address political gerrymandering occuring in several Southern & Midwestern states. Jury nullification has also been mentioned as a potential tool. Are we headed toward a potential showdown later this summer?
Posted by Witty_Username
Member since Jul 2021
749 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:49 pm to
quote:

"No Voice - No Play"

No Play - No Pay
Posted by NashvilleTider
Your Mom
Member since Jan 2007
15898 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:49 pm to
lol they are such babies
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
132317 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:49 pm to
Lol no they wont

They want their NIL
Posted by TiderTom
Pleasant Grove
Member since Apr 2011
494 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:50 pm to
Haaa haa. We will witness these young….”students” learning who their audience is.
Posted by OldManRiver
Prairieville, LA
Member since Jan 2005
7695 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:51 pm to
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many black college athletes will boycott games during the upcoming football and basketball season as a means to address political gerrymandering occurring in several Southern & Midwestern states

If you honestly believe a large # of black 18-23 men, many of whom are going to school in a different place they live and vote, give a flying frick about district gerrymandering, and would do anything to jeopardize the rev share and NIL money they are getting, I've got 10 bridges to the moon to sell you.
Posted by Delupe
Member since Oct 2025
548 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 4:59 pm to
Whether it occurs is irrelevant...the bigger question is how does the school administration and coaches address and plan for the possibility of a player strike. Just the talk and uncertainty of such an event would be extremely disruptive to a football program.
Posted by Mushroom1968
Shreveport
Member since Jun 2023
6682 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 5:05 pm to
It won’t happen but if it does you kick them off the team and stop paying them.
This post was edited on 5/7/26 at 5:06 pm
Posted by Nosevens
Member since Apr 2019
20112 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 5:06 pm to
Who is going to be our next fake hero and take that career killing stand ? Good luck with that Ballers
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
104910 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 5:06 pm to
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Whether it occurs is irrelevant...the bigger question is how does the school administration and coaches address and plan for the possibility of a player strike. Just the talk and uncertainty of such an event would be extremely disruptive to a football program.


How often does something like this happen anyway?

Only one I am aware of is the Grambling player strike some years back and that was due to the school bouncing them all over the country playing various “classics” on busses.

That was an FCS team in one of the shittiest conferences where the coach had just resigned months earlier due to broken promises. It was also pre-NIL.

I don’t see any major conference FBS team pulling such a stunt. Mid-majors along the lines of MAC, C-USA, or Sun Belt? That may be different.
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
59690 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 5:08 pm to
Most people on here would vote for kamala if their favorite sportsballer told them to



There’s a reason epstein called us cattle
Posted by Boomdaddy65201
BoCoMo
Member since Mar 2020
4722 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 5:08 pm to
quote:

Are we headed toward a potential showdown later this summer?


I’ve been told repeatedly, like screamed from the mountaintops, it’s all about that bag.
Posted by Demonbengal
Ruston
Member since May 2015
5719 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 5:08 pm to
With the exception of Oregon and USC about every other competitive college football program is located in a red state that has either redistricted or is looking at redistricting.
Posted by dcbl
Good guys wear white hats.
Member since Sep 2013
32248 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 5:10 pm to
They get paid - they will play
Posted by Jimbeaux
Member since Sep 2003
21903 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 5:10 pm to
The chances of this happening is nil to none, and nil just left the building.

If somehow this movement got some steam, what would happen is that the handful of players who boycotted would sit out a game and the team would proceed without them. Those players would then return for the next game.
Posted by prplngldtigr
just up da bayou from down
Member since Dec 2004
8303 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 5:10 pm to
Good.

Let it fall apart. NFL can figure it out.

College football has seen the enemy and it is itself.
Posted by RazorBroncs
Possesses the largest
Member since Sep 2013
16410 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 5:12 pm to

"Your $500k NIL agreement will be at risk if you choose to sit out"


"Sit out? Who said that? Naw I was joking"
Posted by chalmetteowl
Chalmette
Member since Jan 2008
55164 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 5:12 pm to
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the bigger question is how does the school administration and coaches address and plan for the possibility of a player strike. Just the talk and uncertainty of such an event would be extremely disruptive to a football program.


Strike? They should be locking these dudes out
Posted by Great Plains Drifter
Flyover, U.S.A.
Member since Jul 2019
10475 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 5:13 pm to
Iowa wins their first Natty.
Posted by lazlodawg
Member since Sep 2017
650 posts
Posted on 5/7/26 at 5:14 pm to
Just a point about your use of the term gerrymandering in the OP. The prior districts were the result of gerrymandering. The new district maps fix that.
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