NCAA to allow messages on jerseys

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bigorangecrush89 said:
Boy, it’s becoming pretty hard to justify supporting these organizations and sports with my time and dollars when they support organizations amd movements that hate people like me.
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What organizations hate you? How dare the players be allowed to express themselves and the causes they believe in. They should be treated like the commodities they are, where we celebrate their athletic ability but don’t care about them at all as individual human beings.
 
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Just to play devil's advocate, what happens if one of the players wants to put "White Lives Matter" or "Cats Lives Matter" or "No Lives Matter"?

Is the NCAA gonna be the arbitrator of what is a "social justice cause" and what is not?

This is seriously dumb, and will not end well.
 
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Vols1891 said:
What organizations hate you?
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I'll jump on this topic and say I WILL NOT watch or support the NBA any longer. I have worked several overtime gigs at the NBA bubble at Disney and its been a 💩 show. I personally had an issue with the Lakers team when their bus arrived for a practice and they refused to get off the bus unless all cops turned their back to them or walked out of sight. They also refused to practice or play if they could see us in the building. Thats just what I personally dealt with, I've heard other crap from some of the other guys too.

Point being, NBA backed them up and wanted to keep their cash cows producing. I know this is NCAA, but they're taking the same line of dividing everyone as the NBA has. Agreed their is social injustice on certain levels, but this division thats being set up by both sides of the issue is making things worse, not better.
 
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Vols1891 said:
What organizations hate you? How dare the players be allowed to express themselves and the causes they believe in. They should be treated like the commodities they are, where we celebrate their athletic ability but don’t care about them at all as individual human beings.
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We will have to see how this plays out...I strongly suspect only certain messages will be allowed which makes will make this become partisan very quickly and, in the blink of an eye, at least one-third of your audience will be turned off - not very smart business.
 
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NATHAN05 said:
I'll jump on this topic and say I WILL NOT watch or support the NBA any longer. I have worked several overtime gigs at the NBA bubble at Disney and its been a 💩 show. I personally had an issue with the Lakers team when their bus arrived for a practice and they refused to get off the bus unless all cops turned their back to them or walked out of sight. They also refused to practice or play if they could see us in the building. Thats just what I personally dealt with, I've heard other crap from some of the other guys too.

Point being, NBA backed them up and wanted to keep their cash cows producing. I know this is NCAA, but they're taking the same line of dividing everyone as the NBA has. Agreed their is social injustice on certain levels, but this division thats being set up by both sides of the issue is making things worse, not better.
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All while they shut-up and dribble for communist China and instantly shed all of their woke virtue signalling for basic human rights
 
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Vols1891 said:
What organizations hate you? How dare the players be allowed to express themselves and the causes they believe in. They should be treated like the commodities they are, where we celebrate their athletic ability but don’t care about them at all as individual human beings.
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If you don’t think BLM and orbiting groups are anti-white then I don’t know what to tell you.
 
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Really asking for trouble in my humble opinion. There will be some things "advertised" by some player that will go against the grain of others. The differences of opinion my not be openly discussed/argued about but they will be there. Things like this can get out of hand real fast. Such as a passed not thrown, a block not made, a play taken off, many small things that may not be noticeable to the untrained eye. You could even seen playing time limited. I know these things won't happen, yeah, in the deep recesses of the mind many things outweigh others and we the person make the decision don't even notice our favor of one over another. This type of "political/social" advertising has no place on the sports field. At least not from the college level down. The pro level, a different story. But even at this level it can be costly. Remember the guys with the raised fists at the Mexico Olympic Games or the more current pro QB not able to get a job for kneeling????
 
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If anyone on VN cared to read the actual decision it specifically states that each athlete’s patch must meet approval of both the school and NCAA. Everyone stop hyperventilating that they might be offended. Sometimes the very people accusing others of being snowflakes are actually the biggest flakes of all
 
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The Original Fade said:
If anyone on VN cared to read the actual decision it specifically states that each athlete’s patch must meet approval of both the school and NCAA. Everyone stop hyperventilating that they might be offended. Sometimes the very people accusing others of being snowflakes are actually the biggest flakes of all
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^Misses the point.

SJ needs to be kept out of amateur sports...period.
 
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Vols1891 said:
What organizations hate you? How dare the players be allowed to express themselves and the causes they believe in. They should be treated like the commodities they are, where we celebrate their athletic ability but don’t care about them at all as individual human beings.
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Most people actually care. Many people get visibly upset when a player gets injured.

Pardon us for wanting sports and politics separate. Sports, for many people, are a way to escape the world. Doing this just drags it into that world.
 
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The Original Fade said:
If anyone on VN cared to read the actual decision it specifically states that each athlete’s patch must meet approval of both the school and NCAA. Everyone stop hyperventilating that they might be offended. Sometimes the very people accusing others of being snowflakes are actually the biggest flakes of all
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But If it’s not approved then they too are subject to different things. Keep it out of sports all together.
 
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Hoosier said:
today's headline - "NCAA to allow uniform patches for social justice causes"

bad idea :rolleyes: --- wonder who will be in charge of censorship? --- will Trump 2020, Q, or RIP Redskins be allowed? How about All Lives Matter? F--- the Police? Free Hong Kong?
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and Id they don’t allow it then they’re oppressing people and being racist. Or whatever in the hell it may be..
 
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MontyPython said:
Just to play devil's advocate, what happens if one of the players wants to put "White Lives Matter" or "Cats Lives Matter" or "No Lives Matter"?

Is the NCAA gonna be the arbitrator of what is a "social justice cause" and what is not?

This is seriously dumb, and will not end well.
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Considering the fact that it can’t be said by any stretch with you being told to leave then no it won’t be.
 
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