coachk... wrote:
Taking away scholarship? That's crazy. The coaches wanted to free up money and used it as an excuse. It was the product of an odd situation where scholarship was being heavily used on athletes that possibly didn't deserve it (since they essentially had all their 5 years of scholarship concentrated on their 5th year). Wilbourn sees 2 full spots going to mediocre 5th years, and would prefer to use them to recruit higher profile grad transfers. Simple as that. Justifying moving scholarship money around. They weren't completely innocent in hosting that event, but you're misinformed if you can't see they were moreso victim of scholarship manipulation by Reck and Wilbourn.
You made the mistake of focusing on the party and trying to defend it. That played smack into the hands of the demographic who post here. They are paranoid types who rant against participation trophies and anything they can label as soft.
Strength in their eyes is non stop lying and fearful exclusion.
Obviously the party was an excuse, as you described. As I read that article the one aspect I skimmed through completely was the party. It was dwarfed in significance by everything else.
The big picture is that when such a huge percentage of team members have decided to compose, sign and send a letter like that, then something is badly wrong and there is no reasonable expectation of anything except getting worse. Those students would comprise different ages and backgrounds and ethnicities and majors and home regions and ability levels and personalities and future goals.
Yet they all agree heavily on something