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Players protest football's termination
Submitted by anthony on Tue, 2009-11-24 19:31
Story here. Excerpt:
'On Monday, those expectations were dashed. Roby announced Northeastern's decision to terminate the 74-year-old football program at his recommendation, effective immediately, at a press conference at Matthews Arena. Although Roby said issues of revenue were "irrelevant" in the decision-making process, he said he did not feel comfortable advising Northeastern to make a multi-million dollar investment necessary to turn the program around.
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But while Roby said Northeastern would help current players make decisions about what to do next in their collegiate and athletic careers, many players said were visibly unhappy. About 30 players and fans gathered outside Cabot Gymnasium at a player-organized protest held three hours after the press conference, where players like Woody Romelus handed out flyers reading "Save NU Football" and questioned Roby's recommendation.
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He referenced players like Kenny McAdow, a freshman linebacker from Ashburn, Va. who walked onto the team without a scholarship. McAdow, who is majoring in physical therapy, said he was told by head coach Rocky Hager that he would receive a scholarship before next season, but will not anymore.
"I just got out of a meeting with the coach because financial aid is a big issue for me, and there’s nothing they can do," McAdow said. "I don’t know if I can pay for school here. ... I don’t know what I’m going to do.”
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Yaroslav Mukha, a sophomore offensive lineman from Philadelphia, said he thinks the money will not be going back into athletics and disagreed with what he saw as dishonesty on behalf of the university.
"Why promise us White Stadium, why promise us we were going to get a stadium on Columbus, why promise the kids that are coming in here as freshmen that they were going to definitely play out their careers here? Why should they treat us like we’re not human beings?" Mukha said. "I feel like the least you could do is be honest with us. If there’s a chance you’re going to drop the program, tell us."'
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Another Title IX casualty
So the team wasn't making anough money, and the Title IX police are looming. Easy enough, just cut the football team.
If the team were making money for the school, no way would they cut it.
If the Title IX police were not looming, no way would they cut it.
You may cry foul and ask why I would stand to defend the team's place given what you know about how I feel about sports team event receipts and other related cash flow sources skewing the priorities of college admins. Let me be clear, I am objecting to the inequitable treatment being meted out to the team and to the cynical motivations of the college administration.
The kids who went to that college expecting to play football throughout their 4 years there and not have to study too hard are now stuck. They were recruited and welcomed not because of their scholarly abilities but because they could play football. They knew that, that is what they were told, and possibly all their lives, that is what they have been valued for. Now that rug was yanked out from under them.
Who wins here? The college, for one. They no longer pay for a team that is not making them money. They also increase the relative number of girls' teams so they get Title IX props. The girls' teams benefit now also since they have a greater %age of the sporting claim and so what money was going to football now goes to them. They too have an interest in seeing that team removed.
Who loses? The players recruited to the college, largely to play ball. Will they get their continuing free rides or near-free rides? Most, probably not. Did they have scholastic abilities sufficient to get them into that college without their athletic prowess? Some, maybe, others, no.
The bulk of those others will be left to tread water and maybe, if they try hard enough, graduate. But now they have fallen into that realm that I have described in other posts: They are not top-10% students. Their athletic prowess no longer matters. They have become what 90% of the male population all around them has been here in this "post-feminist society," but did not include them, at least until now.... they have become "surplus males".