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Subject: Re: NAACP Urging Black Athletes to Boycott Southern Universities Author: The Mountain Lion [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 09:42:52 05/20/26 Wed In reply to: An Observer 's message, "NAACP Urging Black Athletes to Boycott Southern Universities" on 15:05:08 05/19/26 Tue The NAACP's proposal for outstanding Black Athletes to boycot Southern Schools like Florida, South Carolina, Alabama and Georgia appears to be very well thought out and will assist greatly major football schools elsewhere in the country such as Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, Syracuse and Boston College, who the NAACP seriously contends have been victimized by the overpayments by Southern Schoools to Blacj Athletes. I cannot see this having much impact on the Ivy League. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> [> Subject: Not sure about Ohio Author: Go Green [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 09:53:50 05/20/26 Wed More like California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, etc... But like the women basketball players, we probably won't be able to tell if the boycott calls are having any impact until a few years from now... [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Not sure about Ohio Author: An Observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:35:42 05/20/26 Wed The winner of the FBS national championship is a narrow, small sample size dollop of data, but it does feel as if the tide has already turned in favor of the Big Ten, away from the SEC. Let's wait for a few more data points, but this bears watching. Many of us simply assumed that the SEC's prior dominance was structural, because geographically they sat on top of where the great African-American athletes were found. Now NIL is shaking up the snow globe and the NAACP wants to further the shift. The NAACP does not need to maintain this so-called boycott for many years. Simply putting their thumb on the scale at this time of tremendous change might still have a long-term effect. We'll see but, as GG says, it may be hard to determine the impact of the NAACP because there are so many moving parts already. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Going to be tough... Author: Go Green [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:49:02 05/20/26 Wed It's not easy to get young people engaged in politics, no matter how much it may affect them down the line.... It's even harder when they have an offer to play football for Alabama or Texas... [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Going to be tough... Author: An Observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 17:59:17 05/20/26 Wed It's not easy to get any people, regardless of age, engaged in politics, no matter what serious constitutional and democratic threats are involved. If there's one thing we seen over the last decade, it's that the average American cannot see past his or her immediate future. If eggs cost $5 a dozen instead of $3, that's an issue, regardless of any bigger and more important issues hanging over the nation's future. We'll see if the same nearsightedness applies when it's gas that cost $5 a gallon, instead of $3. Remember when Americans were outraged and demanded that the President resign because he lied to them? Nixon seems like a happy memory now. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]