Quote Originally Posted by smootness View Post
Why are people pretending it has been decided that because of the football team, the president will, in fact, resign or be fired?

The football team has said they are boycotting until the president is gone. They are perfectly free to decide not to play and to say whatever they want. We have no idea how this will play out. So let's let it before we jump to conclusions.
The very essence of many of the comments that I have read is that the athletes are not free to decide. The scholarship, housing and food makes them University property. The right to exercise civil disobedience is fundamental to our democracy. To deny this fact says that the minority should have no voice. It's not like they are looting in the streets of Columbia. It appears that many would prefer that the football players resort to such actions. At least this would allow the usual adjectives to be attached to them.