Every academic should be raising hell about this; in a better country, the whole faculty there would be on strike until this person was reinstated. I haven’t heard a peep from FIRE or any of the other “academic freedom” people who are constantly freaking out about “conservative representation” on campus.
The Oklahoma University chapter of the American Association of University Professors put out a statement in support of the TA:
Essentially, nothing is new here. OU claims without providing any supporting or specific reasons why Mel Curth was removed. They have claimed in the past in press releases that this was due to supposed and disturbing claims of “religious discrimination” that clash with academic freedom. Is it now? Instead, they hide behind vague statements and essentially assertions of “trust us”. At this point, they need to show us and not tell us. And once again, OU is making an employment decision public, which is inflaming the situation.
I did a post-doc at one of the schools that’s supposed to be both a really good school and a really good football school, and yeah I can confirm that it fucking sucks to work there. Even at an R1, sports comes first for basically all admins (and many students).
I left my previous American university and fled to Europe once history was beginning to be cut and because I’m trans I predicted all this shit happening
The only difference between before and after nil, is that after nil the money is openly going to the players, where before it’s known that some players were getting paid under the table. Not like directly handing them cash (though that did happen), but like they’ll get a new car, their family’s financial situation is given much needed relief, that sort of thing.
Well, and that I guess the amount being thrown around was likely a lot less back then so that the NCAA wouldn’t be too attentive to it.
But really, it was a public secret that all the under the table paying the players was happening before nil came around and made it all get put out in the open.
But the amount thrown around now is in another stratosphere.
All the journalism I’ve seen in the matter is that schools are entering and arms raise where they’re getting billionaire donors and using student money to fund a arms raise of rapidly increasing nil contracts.
It kinda looks like a bubble as schools race to overpay go get records and into the playoffs to get into the SEC or big 10 so they can get TV deals and survive the eventual super conference that will be formed
Every academic should be raising hell about this; in a better country, the whole faculty there would be on strike until this person was reinstated. I haven’t heard a peep from FIRE or any of the other “academic freedom” people who are constantly freaking out about “conservative representation” on campus.
The Oklahoma University chapter of the American Association of University Professors put out a statement in support of the TA:
I live in Europe now, but all my academic friends from back in the states where I’m from fucking hates working for football schools once nil started
They started getting budget cuts and shit instantly
A lot of American schools are going to be killed by private equity trying to turn college football into the NFL
NFL but the athletes don’t get paid.
No they get paid now
Millions
It’s why for instance jmu needs to keep increasing their “athletics fee”
Amerikkkans have no middle ground between basically slavery and this.
This is the economy
But the reality is these kids should have been getting paid before
None of the issues arise from kids getting paid
It’s more so starts in the late 80s when the university of Oklahoma sued the NCAA In supreme court case over university athletics broadcast rights
OU won and since then athletic conferences have been condensing and forming into super leagues trying to rival the NFL
I did a post-doc at one of the schools that’s supposed to be both a really good school and a really good football school, and yeah I can confirm that it fucking sucks to work there. Even at an R1, sports comes first for basically all admins (and many students).
I left my previous American university and fled to Europe once history was beginning to be cut and because I’m trans I predicted all this shit happening
The only difference between before and after nil, is that after nil the money is openly going to the players, where before it’s known that some players were getting paid under the table. Not like directly handing them cash (though that did happen), but like they’ll get a new car, their family’s financial situation is given much needed relief, that sort of thing.
Well, and that I guess the amount being thrown around was likely a lot less back then so that the NCAA wouldn’t be too attentive to it.
But really, it was a public secret that all the under the table paying the players was happening before nil came around and made it all get put out in the open.
Money was thrown around before,
But the amount thrown around now is in another stratosphere.
All the journalism I’ve seen in the matter is that schools are entering and arms raise where they’re getting billionaire donors and using student money to fund a arms raise of rapidly increasing nil contracts.
It kinda looks like a bubble as schools race to overpay go get records and into the playoffs to get into the SEC or big 10 so they can get TV deals and survive the eventual super conference that will be formed