Bleedbluefan
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/co...8/grambling-football/?sct=hp_t11_a2&eref=sihp When broken down like this....the entire admin needs to be fired, today.
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TSUalum05
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My co-worker redishirted in Switzer's last year at University of Oklahoma and played 4 years for the next coach said they had players boycott and quit the team before a bowl game because practice was too tough. He said it was national news.
I haven't read all these post in the multiple threads...What are they quitting for?
But Smith and other players say inexperience is not the primary reason for the team’s struggles. They say an erosion of support for the program has made it difficult for players to succeed. They lack adequate weight training equipment, they say, and the staff and materials to treat injuries properly. They don’t even have enough supplements to replenish their bodies after workouts. “We got some Muscle Milk donated but we have to give it to certain people, like who needs it this week and who doesn’t, kinda ration it,” Smith says.
“We knew what we were getting ourselves into when we came to Grambling. We new we weren’t going to have all this and that, the best stuff. We knew we weren’t going to LSU,” Amphy says. “But it could be better, even just a little bit better. Because it is not like we don’t have the athletes to compete, not like we aren’t trying to the best of our ability.”
http://m.si.com/3489358/the-inside-story-of-what-caused-grambling-football-players-to-revolt/
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JayRob
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It could be anybody's homecoming. This will bring more negativity not just to the players, but to the entire school no matter who it is they're playing.
Clip all the damn schollies and start over somewhere else and see how they'll feel once they realize that they threw away a free education over something that could be resolved amicably.
JayRob
TigaPaw
This ain't nowhere near no player uprising, unless it has to do with paying the players cash money.
These guys KNEW they weren't going to win another game and bailed out beforehand.
Take all their schollies and cut all ties.
Lewis
Peabody Warhorses
If I was the administration, if they didn't get on the bus, i understand that, you may be going home, but you damn sure wouldn't be going back to the dorm.
The players have the support of all the students, who also expressed their displeasure with the administration.
bigmanofds
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We would have to start another thread. . .
We would have to go from the school system to ESPN’s “Play of the day†to cover everything.
jsupop33
Loyalty & Respect
Why would you kick a student out of school for not participating in an athletic contest?
JayRob
TigaPaw
Dude, students ain't running nothing. Students didn't give them their schollies either. Most students are immature and don't realize the repercussions either.
JayRob
TigaPaw
Because he violated his contract and placed the school in a negative light. Hell, if they had won a few games, maybe somebody would've listened but they trying to stand without doing jack for the school.
Bighead
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Dude, stop cooning for once...them kids have every right to do what they are doing..sometimes you have to stop chasing the carrot that's in front of you
JayRob
TigaPaw
How so?
jsupop33
Loyalty & Respect
bruh, that is crazy. He violated a contract for an athletic scholarship. He should lose that. However, someone's admission into a school is not dependent upon them playing a sport. College student protest things all the time. Football is not special. Kick them off the team? Sure. Kicking them out of school would be smallminded.
JayRob
TigaPaw
Cooning for who igga? For Black folks? They have every right to be sent home too. Let 'em quit on their school, fans and administration. Hell, why don't you suit up and at least win ONE game, then talk.
Bleedbluefan
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Well gram will have to pay us.... homecoming has been cancelled.
truthteller
The Critic
This will definitely affect Grambling all the way around, as well as our conference. So, is it just the Missouri Classic and the Circle City Classic that the players are complaining about? Have they been missing meals the entire season? Have they not had enough supplements to take the entire season? Hmmmm.... Regardless of the team's performance, they should remember that they are at Grambling to receive an education via scholarship to play football. A contract has been signed. And I think they should be treated like the real world. If you choose to not operate within the terms of the contract or forfeit it's obligations altogether, then the contract is now void. Scholarships should be revoked and cash money should be paid if they wanna finish the semester and get credit for it to transfer out. Just a spoiled, entitled generation if you ask me.
ravel74
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Plenty of people are getting calls and making calls. Even out here in Phoenix.
Oh, so performance on the field determine whether or not the school addresses issues within the program?
Bleedbluefan
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From what I have been reading...alumni need to give money and stop talking. There has been enough talking, time for action.
JayRob
TigaPaw
Is it small-minded when players quit on their fans, alumni and administration? Seems like they've made their case, but it also seems like they don't have a leg to stand on when they haven't won a damn game in two years.
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