The Unbearable Entitlement of Dabo Swinney

[L&HH]

“I’ll go do something else because there’s enough entitlement in this world as there is.”

 

[FakeNews]

Dabo lost me when he told Shannon Sharpe and I'm paraphrasing racism was over because we have a black president

I dislike Zirin but that was a good article

 

[jadillac]

What's wrong with cfb is that I don't get another NCAA football from EA

exactly, nobody has an issue that a multiple coaches makes $6 mil a year or more, asst coaches making $1 mil a year. Recruiters making $500K a year.

But let a video game that the players actually enjoy make a few million dollars and now we got a "exploitation" problem.

 

[Warren Moon]

Dabo has a southern slave owner mentality. I make sure I bring this up in any conversation about the guy

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

What's wrong with cfb is that I don't get another NCAA football from EA

exactly, nobody has an issue that a multiple coaches makes $6 mil a year or more, asst coaches making $1 mil a year. Recruiters making $500K a year.

But let a video game that the players actually enjoy make a few million dollars and now we got a "exploitation" problem.

Man, fukk that game.

 

[Easy-E]

Dabo "Black people need to just appreciate how it is now" speech didn't happen that long ago

Let's face it;

This is on the fans (white), administers (white) and the NCAA (white) to change

Or for players just NOT to go to college en masse and that's not happening--and it's not that fair to expect someone to give up a million dollar opportunity for a principle

Messed up situation

All I can do is share stories and not watch

 

[smitty22]

Already covered this ground a long time ago:

http://www.theroot.com/confounding-fathers-paternalism-and-the-sociopathic-na-1790856762

The day before, I watched footage of Dabo Swinney channeling his inner William DeVaughn as he advised blacks to be thankful for what you got. The Clemson coach lamented protests during the national anthem as “creating more divisions”; he accused those concerned about police brutality of painting “with a broad brush”; he pointed to the existence of interracial marriage and “interracial churches” as proof of the realization of Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream. He waxed pseudo-philosophically, “It’s so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin problem.”


But it never has been easy for white Americans to say we have a race problem. A significant portion of white Americans in 2016 are still trying to rationalize the foundational plunder, murder and exploitation that are more American than apple pie, more American even than reflexive fealty to the flag. Contrary to Swinney’s heal-the-world blathering, our churches and communities are still largely segregated, and our black quarterbacks and head coaches are still relatively scarce.

History textbooks—within the past year!—have mislabeled slaves as workers. Armchair social critics are still privileging an ahistorical, racist perspective in which our current societal inequalities in income and crime exist in a context-free vacuum. And dimwitted, paternalistic white patriarchs like Swinney are still leaning on the sanitized symbol of MLK while ignoring the reality of his activism and ideas.


The easy thing, in fact, is to say that we have “a sin problem.” The language of moral relativism is the language of exploitation and racism. It’s the language of a man who opposes paying the black labor on whose backs he has built a fortune “because there’s enough entitlement in this world as there is.” Swinney insists that he “didn’t get into coaching to make money.” This year he will be paid $5 million to coach “amateur” athletes in an “amateur” sport that sees everyone but the (largely black) talent amass troves of money. Call it God’s plan.

:buckeyesalute:

 

[Big Boss]

 

[Rekkapryde]

exactly, nobody has an issue that a multiple coaches makes $6 mil a year or more, asst coaches making $1 mil a year. Recruiters making $500K a year.

But let a video game that the players actually enjoy make a few million dollars and now we got a "exploitation" problem.

So blame the black men that want to get paid from these companies using their likenesses for profit and wanting their cut.

Sounds mighty entitled and cac'ish

 

[Thegospel]

Yep. Hit it right on the head. People want to forget that shyt now because he beat the Evil Empire of NCAAF and he likes doing stupid ass dances to hip-hop music to seem hip. Get his ass outta here.

harbaugh does the same shyt but the militant coli Michigan fans get when it gets addressed. Pick and choose when to get offended ass nikkas

 

[jadillac]

So blame the black men that want to get paid from these companies using their likenesses for profit and wanting their cut.

Sounds mighty entitled and cac'ish

you're talking about ONE black man(O'Bannon) out of thousands of athletes over the years who love playing these games.

And again, 2-3 coaches make more money than the entire sales from these games.

 

[Rekkapryde]

you're talking about ONE black man(O'Bannon) out of thousands of athletes over the years who love playing these games.

And again, 2-3 coaches make more money than the entire sales from these games.

Wasn't just O'Bannon and it still is entitlement and cac'ish breh

 

[Ronnie Lott]

Yep. Hit it right on the head. People want to forget that shyt now because he beat the Evil Empire of NCAAF and he likes doing stupid ass dances to hip-hop music to seem hip. Get his ass outta here.

Facts. Ever since he said that slick shyt about Kaeperick protesting, I've been lookin at him real side eyed

Dabo talking about "America doesn't have a race problem, we have a hate problem"

 

[jadillac]

Wasn't just O'Bannon and it still is entitlement and cac'ish breh

it was pretty much just OBannon as far as black players go...

but talk to me about the coaches salaries tho And the billion dollar TV contracts. And the million dollar stadium gates which are pretty much straight up to where players can turn around and basically see the money they create.

Like I said, I personally knew players who loved these games and never questioned getting paid over it.

Just in general, even pro athletes are not playing Madden or NBA 2K and wondering how much of a cut they get off of it.


But think what you want. You bought the games(as did the players), so why contribute if you feel it's bad?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

@Walt

Already covered this ground a long time ago:

http://www.theroot.com/confounding-fathers-paternalism-and-the-sociopathic-na-1790856762

The day before, I watched footage of Dabo Swinney channeling his inner William DeVaughn as he advised blacks to be thankful for what you got. The Clemson coach lamented protests during the national anthem as “creating more divisions”; he accused those concerned about police brutality of painting “with a broad brush”; he pointed to the existence of interracial marriage and “interracial churches” as proof of the realization of Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream. He waxed pseudo-philosophically, “It’s so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin problem.”


But it never has been easy for white Americans to say we have a race problem. A significant portion of white Americans in 2016 are still trying to rationalize the foundational plunder, murder and exploitation that are more American than apple pie, more American even than reflexive fealty to the flag. Contrary to Swinney’s heal-the-world blathering, our churches and communities are still largely segregated, and our black quarterbacks and head coaches are still relatively scarce.

History textbooks—within the past year!—have mislabeled slaves as workers. Armchair social critics are still privileging an ahistorical, racist perspective in which our current societal inequalities in income and crime exist in a context-free vacuum. And dimwitted, paternalistic white patriarchs like Swinney are still leaning on the sanitized symbol of MLK while ignoring the reality of his activism and ideas.


The easy thing, in fact, is to say that we have “a sin problem.” The language of moral relativism is the language of exploitation and racism. It’s the language of a man who opposes paying the black labor on whose backs he has built a fortune “because there’s enough entitlement in this world as there is.” Swinney insists that he “didn’t get into coaching to make money.” This year he will be paid $5 million to coach “amateur” athletes in an “amateur” sport that sees everyone but the (largely black) talent amass troves of money. Call it God’s plan.

Damn, Walt ahead of the game...