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Moostache

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10. Athletes do not play for the schools any longer...

Mon Mar 31, 2025, 11:54 AM

Mar 31

They play for whoever signs the biggest "N.I.L." deal and will jump from school to school to maximize their income now. They are not idealists or students, they are sellswords and mercanaries. To believe that any student-athlete white or black or anything else has any pwoer to inflict change on this system is out of touch by a good 5-10 years now.

The football players are getting millions in college and some as young as 16 are getting endorsement deals to continue feeding the wealth accumulation machine and entice people to keep seeking the superfluous and inane and not focus on how badly they are being fucked out of their property, their money, their futures and their very lives.

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U of Michigan will end its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives campus wide. [View all] Swede Mar 31 OP

omg Passages Mar 31 #1

As a Michigan grad, I'm ashamed. U of M had always refused to cave kerry-is-my-prez Mar 31 #18

I am so upset. Passages Mar 31 #20

If they would. But they will be told not to. Srkdqltr Mar 31 #2

The University of Minnesota still has a DEI program. Ocelot II Mar 31 #3

The U took down a statement the American Indian Department made about Palestine, as well as an article about Leonard WhiskeyGrinder Mar 31 #4

So they'll just chip away at it rather than abolish it altogether? Ocelot II Mar 31 #6

Looks that way. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 31 #8

Fuck UM, 100% unnecessary uponit7771 Mar 31 #5

Why are universities giving in to this bullshit? Elessar Zappa Mar 31 #7

Federal money. Most big universities rely on federal grants Ocelot II Mar 31 #9

So basically blackmail. Elessar Zappa Mar 31 #16

Extortion, more accurately. Ocelot II Mar 31 #17

Right. Elessar Zappa Mar 31 #22

Athletes do not play for the schools any longer... Moostache Mar 31 #10

Kids are entering the transfer portal during the ncaa tourny. Mosby Mar 31 #13

Terrible Takket Mar 31 #11

Dammit. Universities have to stop bending the knee to this bastard. Nanjeanne Mar 31 #12

All of Ohio's state run universities and colleges did so under SB1. sinkingfeeling Mar 31 #14

Disgusting. sekha68 Mar 31 #15

University of Michigan shutting down diversity, equity, inclusion programs Celerity Mar 31 #19

Fools. Cowards. Solly Mack Mar 31 #21