Update: Missouri President Tim Wolfe has resigned
Written by Joseph Nardone at Bloguin
The Missouri Tiger football program is going to function rather differently than any other program for at least a little bit. What has now been widely reported, covered, and discussed is this: Black Missouri football players are going to boycott team activities as they call for school president Tim Wolfe to be fired or leave on his own.
Unrest has been growing at the campus for some time. Numerous things can be cited in order to explain why a group of athletes, students, and faculty are calling for a form of justice. Whether or not you feel that Wolfe is the root of the problem is just a small piece of a larger puzzle. Wolf might merely be part of a larger issue at hand, or this might be a misguided effort on behalf of otherwise well-meaning protesters. Different people will fall into these different camps, but those aren’t even the most interesting parts of this story.
Here’s what begins to make this the biggest college football story of the year, even as its layers are only now starting to be unpeeled after unrest within the university has been developing for some time.
The first thing which will immediately grab the headlines, at least for sports fans, is the fact that football players are willingly stepping away from the field. Many different people will have many different opinions on the matter.
Some will revert to being upset that athletes are taking up this cause which will alter their Saturday viewing pleasures. Many, but not all, of these people tend to lack empathy for the free-laborers who provide us our entertainment by literally destroying their bodies and minds in a violent sport.
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