SirShaktus
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Not an attorney or anything but does becoming a football player automatically strip people of their civil rights ie right to assemble/protest?
Nope.
There are certain restrictions players make after signing for a scholarship (i.e., no taking money from professionals or making a certain amount of money via a job per semester of sport participation), but The Constitution is the supreme law.
Like folks said though, if college sports and the NCAA were considered private businesses and the players employees, which they clearly aren't (), then...
I'm sorry, I must have missed something
They're getting scholarships to play football. If they don't play football, then they don't get scholarships....where is the outrage
Mizzou students can protest and get involved politically all they want...just not as football players. Ya'll are acting like playing a sport is equivalent to getting an education at that school. If the football program has rules against protesting, then don't fukking join the football team. The bill is not saying students can't protest.
Stop glorifying athletics.
You kinda contradicted yourself here, breh.
There's a reason every person participating in an NCAA sport is called a "student-athlete."
They're both.
And the thing is, the team (as well as every other school that has college athletics) doesn't have rules against protesting/assembly. Covered by the 1st Amendment.
And playing a sport is the equivalent of getting an education; if most of those athletes had an easier method of paying for college (or in some cases, if college wasn't the only method to get to the pros... ), they'd have taken it.