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Long story short<\/a>: University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe resigns after protests over racism are joined by over 30 black members of the school\u2019s football team.<\/span><\/p>\n I have a friend.\u00a0 They are\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0a sports fan.\u00a0 I\u00a0am<\/em>\u00a0a sports fan.\u00a0 This friend and I have had several discussions in the past about how unjust it is that typically, college athletic coaches make millions and millions of dollars in annual salary, whereas even the most tenured, credentialed and celebrated professors won\u2019t even come close to making that kind of money.<\/span><\/p>\n Coaches scream at student-athletes, boss them around, institute rigorous physical training onto them, and more or less work for five, six months tops, out of the year.\u00a0 Professors on the other hand, teach students information, skill, and try to train their brains, so that they can do things once leaving college that don\u2019t involve trying to hit a ball, kick a ball, throw a ball, or move a ball ten yards at a time, as effectively as possible.\u00a0 And they work vastly more months than six out of any given year.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This friend is vehemently on the side of thinking that it is unfair that professors make peanuts compared to college coaches.\u00a0 I do not disagree with opinion.<\/span><\/p>\n However, I happen to like sports, and I\u2019ve seen my share of impacts that a good coach can do to a program, such as Nick Saban turning Alabama into a perennial powerhouse, Steve Spurrier digging South Carolina out from under the mud into an era of respectability, and more recently Urban Meyer turning Ohio State from pretenders back into champions.<\/span><\/p>\n Winning games generates money, and when the day is over, schools are no different than any other organization; they like accumulating money.<\/span><\/p>\n I see both sides to the argument.\u00a0 Professors have the potential to teach students things way more important than the importance of being able to move a ball.\u00a0 But the ability to move balls is a very, very profitable talent.<\/span><\/p>\n And as shitty of a notion it is, money drives everything.<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s how I feel about the whole Missouri situation.\u00a0 In the end, what the students and faculty were protesting about, university president Tim Wolfe, has resigned.\u00a0 Ostensibly, with Wolfe out of power, his supposed veiled racism is also out of power, or so it would like to be believed.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m all for when a protest with a just cause succeeds, but it\u2019s the manner in which this protest succeeded that makes me believe that ultimately, it was a hollow victory, one that doesn\u2019t really count as much of a victory, because I think there\u2019s great reason to believe that the impetus for Wolfe\u2019s resignation has nothing to do with remorse and personal reflection, so much as it has to do with, of course, money.<\/span><\/p>\n According to the\u00a0New York Times<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n Months of student and faculty protests over racial tensions and other issues\u2026<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Months.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Months<\/strong>\u00a0of protesting over racial tensions gets absolutely nowhere.<\/span><\/p>\n On Saturday, November 7th, over 30 black members of the school\u2019s Mizzou Tigers football team declared that they would boycott all football-related activities, including games, until Tim Wolfe was out of power.\u00a0 The coach and all other teammates joined in solidarity.<\/span><\/p>\n On Monday, November 9th, after just\u00a0two days<\/strong>\u00a0of protest from basically, the football team, Tim Wolfe resigns.\u00a0 Ostensibly, the Mizzou Tigers resume all football-related activities effective immediately, and will take the field on November 14th against Brigham Young.<\/span><\/p>\n Does this sound like a victory for civil rights?\u00a0 Or does it sound like a victory for governing body of the University of Missouri at ensuring that the money train known as the Mizzou Tigers continues to flow?<\/span><\/p>\n If you think it\u2019s the former, I\u2019d really like to have a sip of the optimism tea that you\u2019re drinking, because I certainly could stand to better myself to not be so jaded.<\/span><\/p>\n Because it\u2019s no secret that football generates a ton of money, especially a team in the SEC, the most powerful and lucrative football conference in all of college sports.\u00a0 Mizzou simply not playing has gargantuan financial repercussions, and regardless of the money they don\u2019t make by not playing on Saturday, there would undoubtedly be severe penalties and fines to be paid by the NCAA or the BCS or whomever is in charge of everything.\u00a0 Organizations like schools don\u2019t like to lose money.<\/span><\/p>\n Ultimately, everyone wins to some degree; the students and faculty to wanted to see Tim Wolfe removed from power got what they wanted, as does the football team, with Tim Wolfe resigning.\u00a0 Fans and supporters of Mizzou won\u2019t miss their football on Saturday, and will undoubtedly resuming sinking their dollars into their preferred team.<\/span><\/p>\n Unfortunately, the school itself kind of wins too, because with the protest basically over, they will continue to rake in the money that football generates.\u00a0 And if you want the very worst part of this all is that depending on your perspective, Tim Wolfe probably wins too, because this ordeal is now over, and I\u2019d be willing to wager that there\u2019s some sort of payout or monetary gain for him by voluntarily stepping down, because I can\u2019t imagine that if he really didn\u2019t want to resign, he might not have had to.\u00a0 Wolfe leaves because he\u2019s pressured to leave; if his ambivalence towards racial matters makes him a racist, then this whole experience isn\u2019t going to push him towards any sort of reform.<\/span><\/p>\n But because this whole situation required intervention from the football team, as good intentioned as their motives were, at least in my opinion, it really, severely waters down the magnitude of this victory, to where it becomes extremely hollow.<\/span><\/p>\n If there was ever reason to believe that when the day is over, sports hold more influence over the most powerful and influential professors in the world, this is the kind of story that cements it.\u00a0 And if you ask me, that, is kind of sad.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Long story short: University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe resigns after protests over racism are joined by over 30 black members of the school\u2019s football team. I have a friend.\u00a0 They are\u00a0not\u00a0a sports fan.\u00a0 I\u00a0am\u00a0a sports fan.\u00a0 This friend and I have had several discussions in the past about how unjust it is that typically, … Continue reading Is it really victory?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[106,15,89],"class_list":["post-41819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-football","tag-og","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41821,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41819\/revisions\/41821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}