Pac 10 players list demands

[displacedinMN]

This should be good.

A group of Pac-12 football players from multiple schools penned a letter in The Players' Tribune threatening to opt out of fall camp and game participation unless their demands for fair treatment, safety regulations and concerns over racial justice for college athletes are met by the conference.

The letter is signed by Players of the Pac-12 and uses the hashtag #WeAreUnited to explain the group's concerns, saying "NCAA sports exploit college athletes physically, economically and academically, and also disproportionately harm Black college athletes, #WeAreUnited."

According to a source, one of the bigger issues the group wants to address is racial injustice, which is outlined in the letter.

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Pac-12 players threaten to opt out, list demands

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The student-athletes are asking the conference to form a permanent civic-engagement task force to address social injustice issues, as well as an annual Pac-12 Black College Athlete Summit with at least three athletes from every school in the conference.

In addition, the letter says the group wants the conference to direct 2% of conference revenue to support financial aid for low-income Black students, community initiatives and development programs for college athletes on campus.

The athletes within the group leading this charge also say they are being asked to play college sports in a pandemic without transparency and guarantees for their safety, and without the ability to secure representation while being asked to sign documents that could serve as liability waivers.

Among the demands listed in the letter, the group starts by asking for safety protections amid the coronavirus pandemic. Among those demands: allowing student-athletes to opt out of play during the pandemic without losing eligibility or a spot on the team, prohibiting any COVID-19 agreements that waive liability, and player-approved health and safety standards enforced by a third party selected by players to address COVID-19.

"Because we should not be stuck with sports-related medical expenses, including COVID-19 related expenses, #WeAreUnited," the letter reads.

The group is also asking conference commissioner Larry Scott, administrators and coaches to "drastically reduce excessive pay" and end performance bonuses to help preserve all existing sports. In addition to those financial requests, the student-athletes are demanding guaranteed medical expense coverage for six years after college athletics eligibility ends.

The group is asking the conference to distribute 50 percent of each sport's total conference revenue evenly among athletes in their respective sports, six-year athletic scholarships, and the ability to transfer one time with impunity.

The demands were released on Sunday, and as of Saturday, the Pac-12 said in a statement it had yet to hear from the group.

"Neither the Conference nor our university athletics departments have been contacted by this group regarding these topics," a Pac-12 statement said. "We support our student-athletes using their voice and have regular communications with our student-athletes at many different levels on a range of topics. As we have clearly stated with respect to our fall competition plans, we are, and always will be, directed by medical experts, with the health, safety and well being of our student athletes, coaches and staff always the first priority. We have made it clear that any student athlete who chooses not to return to competition for health or safety reasons will have their scholarship protected."

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by dj56dt58

Hand in your scholarships and enjoy your career at McDonald’s

/thread. **** ‘em. I’ll enjoy college ball as much, if not more, without them.

[TomBarndtsTwin]

Yup. Good riddance.

Go get your ‘free ride’ somewhere else (if you can).

Most of us have to go into debt to pay for a 4 year college education.


PAC-12 needs to tell everyone of them to **** off. If they don’t like it, they can transfer elsewhere.

[BigCatDaddy]

WSU just told guys promoting this to clean out their lockers. Welcome to the real world fellas.

[tredadda]

I fully expect all of these demands to be met. This is the PAC 12 after all. Most of these universities are located in bastions of far left ideologies such as Berkeley, Eugene, Seattle, Boulder etc......The schools will give in to avoid being called out by their far left base.

[CasselGotPeedOn]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

WSU just told guys promoting this to clean out their lockers. Welcome to the real world fellas.

Good. **** em.

[BWillie]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Yeah, college athletics is a real oddity of our society. Why are colleges serving as the farm teams for pros? Why are colleges using athletics as a fundraiser when the most successful of them do so at a significant cost to their academic reputations? Go back to concentrating on academics and let's not even have athletics associated with college.

Thats not the NCAAs fault. Who enacts rules to discriminate based on age? It's not the NCAA. The NBA created the one year in college or outside of HS rule to help minimize risk on young talent and the busts that can cripple a franchise. They enacted this rule to gain certainty.

The NFL requires 3 years outside of HS before you can go. These rules are discriminatory and not on the NCAA.

It's still a choice to accept a scholarship, room, board, plus the stipend they get in exchange for playing the sport. Its an offer and if you accept it you abide by the rules of the scholarship. Nobody is making you go to college. Dont want to go? Dont have to go.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy

WSU just told guys promoting this to clean out their lockers. Welcome to the real world fellas.

Is that still Leach?

[Chiefshrink]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

I'm not sure this is a good year to pull this BS, perhaps it's a great year, but it's fun to watch...

It's a perfect time to pull this because all the private sector businesses are cowardly giving in to PC crap and the schools birth this stuff and these student athletes the majority of them are minority with a Civil Rights Lawyer I assure you and they are just in line to get their due. The athletic dept. in no way will stand up to this because the school won't let them especially since Covid rules the day.

[BigCatDaddy]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

Is that still Leach?

No..New guy so he has no ties to the players and has some rope for a bit.

[kcclone]

These guys may find out that only 5-10% of them actually have any market value, especially at a time when revenues are plummeting. The P12 was barely staying afloat as it was before Covid.

[Dayze]

don't worry.....when they end up working at McDonalds or some other job that's not meant to sustain a career; are in a low income bracket, and their lives generally suck...it'll be someone else's fault for oppressing them.


hilarious WSU called their all in bluff then the players were holding a Jack - Two off suit.

BYe.

Too bad they'll be to stupid to treat this as a learning experience...pick your battles and be prepared to live with the consequences (which they aren't)

[Marcellus]

The players listing demands will be the same ones partying and going to bars.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Dayze

don't worry.....when they end up working at McDonalds or some other job that's not meant to sustain a career; are in a low income bracket, and their lives generally suck...it'll be someone else's fault for oppressing them.


hilarious WSU called their all in bluff then the players were holding a Jack - Two off suit.

BYe.

Too bad they'll be to stupid to treat this as a learning experience...pick your battles and be prepared to live with the consequences (which they aren't)

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by Dayze

don't worry.....when they end up working at McDonalds or some other job that's not meant to sustain a career; are in a low income bracket, and their lives generally suck...it'll be someone else's fault for oppressing them.


hilarious WSU called their all in bluff then the players were holding a Jack - Two off suit.

BYe.

Too bad they'll be to stupid to treat this as a learning experience...pick your battles and be prepared to live with the consequences (which they aren't)

Honestly, I think they know that 95%+ of them "won't go pro" (as that one NCAA commercial suggested a couple years back), so I think this, for that group who realize they probably won't go pro and know they're not really smart, is to try and create a nest-egg of sorts while they're in college. I think a huge percentage of them know they'll probably fail at being anything more than a gym coach because they're there to play a game, and few of them take the academic side seriously.

EDIT: Plus, the colleges are making huge bank on their backs, a hell of a lot more than room and board and a few classes (that they probably don't attend anyway), so they want a cut of those huge contracts the schools are getting.

[MahiMike]

It's ok. They can just take their $150K opt out money...