re: Mizzou in danger of losing AAU status?

They were protesting over their perceived lack of action regarding the acts, not the acts themselves. You may not agree with their actions and their method of delivery was not done well, but they have the right.

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No one is throwing them in jail for protesting, which is all rights entitle you to

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Seriously?

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That is just one though

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Wolfe took accountability and resigned on his own.

That is correct, you don't need anything concrete to form your idea or agenda. Wolfe did what he thought was best, he was not forced out.

I can't even wrap my head around where you are coming from here.

Yes, he was 100% forced out. That was 100% due to the football boycott. It's undeniable the effect said boycott has had on the university financially. Donations, enrollment, state funding etc.

It's done immense damage with a good chance to do more.

Meh. My daughter still had a class to go to today. I had a wrestling team to follow today. Everyone needs to stop being a chicken little.

Was it a black mark? Sure
Did he resign because of it? Likely
Was he forced to? No. He may have chose to do so because he felt it best but it was still a choice. No one had a gun to his head.

Mizzou will be just fine. I'm more worried about who our next hoops coach will be but I guess my priorities and concerns in life are different

Is the drop in attendance and donations a 1 year blip? Or is it a start of a long term trend?
I tend to believe that if the new permanent President and Chancellor are any good that Mizzou will more than recover from all of this rather quickly.

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Are you asserting the two are unconnected?

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For some it is, for others it isn't. For ones that do think it a factor, some think it is a big deal while others think it is small. Regardless of how they got to the decision, it is their own personal decision. The football team and/or protesters did *not* make the decision for them. Whether to apply or not is their choice. People can rationalize it however they want, but it is not a one size fits all.

Are you asserting that everybody should follow your line of reasoning only?

ETA the word *not* so it would make more sense.

I'm sure this is also reported elsewhere, but per this KMOX story ( LINK) the head of the Mizzou alumni association is encouraging alumni to write their Missouri legislators to push them to keep funding levels up and not rescind the current state statute preventing other state universities from offering professional and graduate degree programs duplicating those at MU. Keeping AAU status is prominently referred to.

Regardless of how rightfully annoyed one may have been about how the old administration handled things last fall, I think most if not all can agree now is not the time to pile on and make a bad situation worse. We're sending letters; encourage others to do so, too.

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Using your same line of reasoning, it couldn't hurt the football team. The coach suspending players for protesting wouldn't force anyone to come or not come. All those football players would make their own decisions. The punishment for "striking" (LOL) therefore couldn't have any causative impact at all.

And that's why your argument blows. Because it's patently false and it's not even consistent with the rest of your statements in this thread.

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Your comparison is way off. I have argued in this thread that the reaction to the act is what causes damage, not the act. So if players do not come, that reaction would damage the team. I would also argue that Odom did not make those people not join the team, and if they did not, it was their decision. People can rationalize it however they want, but it is their decision. Your what if scenario is the exact same situation to what we discussed prior, just the cause of damage is from a different source. I don't believe I ever said there was no causative effect, in fact I even said some applications would be down because of the protest.

Also are you comparing people reacting to punishment for exercising their rights is the same as people reacting to others exercising their rights? That is dumb.

I have tried to make several points in this thread and one is accountability to your own decisions rather than blaming others for "making" you do that. Your first couple of responses lacked any intelligent thought and your last one showed a lack of comprehension to what was being discussed. That's why your argument blows.

I don't guess we'll ever know definitively, but if there were enough players to field a team vs. BYU Pinkel's move should have been to voice support for the "striking" players, not suspend them, and say we're playing the game with the players on hand.

The tap dancing that has to be done to not get labeled a racist (with the all-too predictable faux outrage) has become laughable. Pinkel didn't think it through and it cost him his job and the University dearly.