Meet your NCAA president, and world's biggest hypocrite, Mark Emmert

[resurrection]

This is the man that gutted PSU, who has typically upheld the standard of the student athlete and balancing academics with athletics better than most schools, for "an erosion of academic values that are replaced by hero worship and winning at all costs."

The same university chancellor who made 2x as much as the average, at a 3rd tier academic school, with his salary funded by a private institution set up for the school's ATHLETIC funds, at the expense of faculty and classroom facilities, essentially for the sole reason of winning football championships

But nah, this is your white knight to come slay the evil Penn St. dragon. Get all the way out, please n thanks

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Business as Usual @ LSU Part Deux

What is ironic in all of this debacle is that the insatiable desire to field a winning football team has spawned much of this corruption and greed. Students of sports history will quickly realize that what is transpiring today in college athletics is exactly what late nineteenth century academicians feared, that athletics would eventually eclipse the larger, principal mission of the college campus--to educate and mold young people. Today, large public colleges are not focused on educating young people.
Instead, thanks to renegade, self-serving chancellors like Mark Emmert at LSU, public universities like LSU have become diploma factories that serve only the administration and its rich and powerful cronies at the expense of the paying customers, the students. By openly promoting the success of the athletic department's many teams, especially the highly-visible football team, Emmert is placating the student body populace. Much like the ancient Roman emperors who advocated the ever-popular bloodsport of the gladiators to keep the rank and file in check, Emmert has a similar "Bread and Circus" agenda. Chancellor Mark Emmert summed up simply the new mission and purpose of LSU in late 1999 when Nick Saban was hired. His words, which will undoubtedly live in infamy in the annals of modern college sports history, were: "Simply put, success in LSU Football is essential for the success of Louisiana State University." Emmert's quip at the time was in response to the objections to Nick Saban's $1.2 million salary as the new LSU head football coach. Today, Nick Saban makes $1.6 million.

Given that the LSU Board of Supervisors and the Tiger Athletic Foundation have violated their own working papers in their clandestine efforts to compensate Mark Emmert for using his office and status to push the football ticket surcharge movement on an unsuspecting and undeserving public, it is time to take a closer look at the books of both the TAF, the Board of Supervisors and most importantly, the LSU Foundation. Quiet machinations notwithstanding, the unreasonable compensation granted to Emmert have had notable impacts to the supplemental pay of faculty members, in addition to taking valuable and much-needed dollars away from the university classroom?where it is sadly most needed. The Legislative Auditor's Office should be charged to conduct a complete, forensic audit of the books of the aforementioned so that any further wrongdoing can be uncovered. Given the many illegalities and the overall related secrecy involving the pay hike, the people of Louisiana need to be reassured that their trust has not been further breached. As previously stated, it is time to clean house at LSU. An administration bent on promoting athletics at the expense of academics is one in need of replacing.

 

[InvictusAeternusEternus]

Meet this one star! PSU apologists make me sick

 

[NYC Rebel]

Where was this passion and outrage for Joe Paterno's lack of action?

I'm sorry...this isn't a good look.

 

[West Coast Avenger]

Come on now bruh......

 

[23Barrettcity]

Paterno psu apologists it's over but the singing . If programs get penalized for getting tattoos and sweatpants but trying to cover for child molesters is ok ? Smh you guys sick

 

[resurrection]

Meet this one star! PSU apologists make me sick

Right, because disagreeing with the NCAA, as many objective folk out there are doing, means I am an apologist for the four people at PSU . responsible for this. You can get all the way out

Where was this passion and outrage for Joe Paterno's lack of action?

I'm sorry...this isn't a good look.

Bruh you haven't heard a word from me since the podcast the same week we all heard about this in November. You don't know how my feelings have changed - I'm done trying to make sense of it all and have accepted that he let us all down. Not that I have to explain myself to you. And now that you're done trying to kill the messenger, are you gonna ignore the hypocrisy of Mark Emmert and the NCAA just because I made the thread?

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

There is really nothin to defend here at Penn State. The people in power placed football over raping boys. That is a fact. As Desmond Howard has said, everyone there now has a choice, the boys did not.

 

[resurrection]

There is really nothin to defend here at Penn State. The people in power placed football over raping boys. That is a fact. As Desmond Howard has said, everyone there now has a choice, the boys did not.

Lemme know when I'm doing that

 

[NYC Rebel]

Bruh you haven't heard a word from me since the podcast the same week we all heard about this in November. You don't know how my feelings have changed - I'm done trying to make sense of it all and have accepted that he let us all down. Not that I have to explain myself to you. And now that you're done trying to kill the messenger, are you gonna ignore the hypocrisy of Mark Emmert and the NCAA just because I made the thread?

I didn't see any posts matching this fury, passion and outrage you have for Mark Emmery for Joe Paterno.

 

[havoc00]

Lets dig Joe Pa Up and shyt on his corpse, fukk him and his supporters

 

[resurrection]

I didn't see any posts matching this fury, passion and outrage you have for Mark Emmery for Joe Paterno.

Because you haven't seen any posts from me about him at all. Why do I need to express my anger toward him when the rest of the world is already doing it? It would add nothing new to the convo except get it out of the way so you can't slap me with the "apologist/defender" label. Nah, I can talk about other things without giving that disclaimer "oh yeah guys I hate Joe Pa too so please take me seriously now". Fact is NCAA regulates competitive advantage. Courts handle criminality, and they are doing it swiftly. The NCAA and Mark Emmert have fostered this culture and profited from it for years, and are now trying to be the good guys smashing innocent players/coaches based on that same culture. Nah, that's not okay in a rational world that isn't run by mob rule and blind rage. Was it worse than tattoos? Of course.. Is it the NCAA's business? Hardly. Did they make it their business to appease an angry public and grab power at the same time knowing there would be no negative kickback for abusing their power since everyone is mad about child abuse? For sure.

 

[NYC Rebel]

Because you haven't seen any posts from me about him at all. Why do I need to express my anger toward him when the rest of the world is already doing it?

Because you don't need to world to stop you from expressing how you genuinely feel.


That's a copout. "they're expressing outrage already so its stopping me from expressing outrage towards Joe!!!"

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Not an apologists and the punishments were rightfully deserved (and anyone with any kind of sense knows there was no punishment that could've been handed down that was not enough or too much) but where my disagreement in how the punishments went down fall pretty much in line with David Zirin's column ( Why the NCAA's Sanctions on Penn State Are Just Dead Wrong | The Nation )....i can't see how some people just go batshyt crazy when Goodell does something like this but Emmert is praised for doing this when it's totally outside of his boundaries as NCAA head...IMO, he just fell victim to the lynch mob wanting anything done so he succumbed to that just to say, "look @ what we just did and will not be tolerated anymore"..

 

[resurrection]

Because you don't need to world to stop you from expressing how you genuinely feel.

First of all, I've already said my genuine feelings on him in this thread. Second of all, even if those weren't my genuine feelings, I don't see why not letting 'the world' dictate my emotions would be a bad thing. At least that would mean I'm not bending to YOU just because.

That's a copout. "they're expressing outrage first" is stopping you from expressing outrage at Joe.

I'm talking about posts on this board, where I rarely post. Those who have bothered to ask have heard that my feelings about him have changed. You never have. And this thread is about the NCAA.

Not an apologists and the punishments were rightfully deserved (and anyone with any kind of sense knows there was no punishment that could've been handed down that was not enough or too much) but where my disagreement in how the punishments went down fall pretty much in line with David Zirin's column ( Why the NCAA's Sanctions on Penn State Are Just Dead Wrong | The Nation )....i can't see how some people just go batshyt crazy when Goodell does something like this but Emmert is praised for doing this when it's totally outside of his boundaries as NCAA head...IMO, he just fell victim to the lynch mob wanting anything done so he succumbed to that just to say, "look @ what we just did and will not be tolerated anymore"..

That is a great column that describes how I feel

Along with these

http://www.indystar.com/article/201...335/?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|IndyStar.com|p

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...-sanctions/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_t11_a1

These three individuals are not PSU apologists

 

[NYC Rebel]

First of all, I've already said my genuine feelings on him in this thread. Second of all, even if those weren't my genuine feelings, I don't see why not letting 'the world' dictate my emotions would be a bad thing. At least that would mean I'm not bending to YOU just because.



I'm talking about posts on this board, where I rarely post. Those who have bothered to ask have heard that my feelings about him have changed. You never have. And this thread is about the NCAA.


That is a great column that describes how I feel

Along with these

http://www.indystar.com/article/20120723/SPORTS15/207230335/?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|IndyStar.com|p

Mark Emmert, NCAA overstepped bounds in hammering Penn State - Stewart Mandel - SI.com

These three individuals are not PSU apologists

Nah...it just looks like you're being selective at who to be 'outraged" at. Can you HONESTLY say you felt this inner anger when finding out about Joe's lack of action?