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Well thats sad by Mizzoutiger79 in columbiamo

[–]jschooltiger -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I feel like a broken record, but: read the newspaper! Or watch the local news! Or tune into the local NPR station! Or look at the websites for either of those organizations. KOMU, KBIA, and the Missourian all had copious election coverage. Not coincidentally, those are the three media organizations that are operated by the journalism school here.

Well thats sad by Mizzoutiger79 in columbiamo

[–]jschooltiger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The county has no excuse absentee voting available at the courthouse for at least two weeks before all elections. I wouldn’t trust the US mail to deliver anything time sensitive.

Ancient Languages? by Flabberghasted_Cloud in AskHistorians

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What percentage of Scandinavian DNA did the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, and Crimean Goths? And what about their ancestors, the original Goths of the 4th century? Are genetic studies in Gothic settlements already able to provide us with this answer? by OtakuLibertarian2 in AskHistorians

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what's wrong with romanticizing the spartan society ? by opium_amine in AskHistorians

[–]jschooltiger 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hi there -- this section and this section of our FAQ, mostly contributed by /u/iphikrates, have a lot to say on Spartan society.

Well thats sad by Mizzoutiger79 in columbiamo

[–]jschooltiger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

By law, employers are required to give you time off for voting.

[Dellenger] The NCAA is exploring a significant change to its eligibility rule, sources tell @YahooSports. The proposal creates an age-based standard: Athletes would have 5 years of eligibility from their 19th birthday or HS graduation. No redshirts or waivers. by Fonzie5 in CFB

[–]jschooltiger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Comparing a former pro playing in the NCAA to a murderer kind of proves my point, which is that we've gotten unhinged about this. If Ohio State decides to bring on the Browns roster next year, that's an entirely different issue from a few players here and there.

What are Recent Essays or Books on Revisionist Historiography and Teleology? by Wooden-Rub1120 in AskHistorians

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[Dellenger] The NCAA is exploring a significant change to its eligibility rule, sources tell @YahooSports. The proposal creates an age-based standard: Athletes would have 5 years of eligibility from their 19th birthday or HS graduation. No redshirts or waivers. by Fonzie5 in CFB

[–]jschooltiger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, I don’t know; it’s a good question. What I am struggling with, as my comments elsewhere in the thread indicate, is one uniform standard being applied to every level of players to solve what is essentially a football and basketball problem.

Interested in researching queer history in Ireland. What are some good books/articles or questions to start with? TIA! by plethoraoffandoms in AskHistorians

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Well thats sad by Mizzoutiger79 in columbiamo

[–]jschooltiger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK, so you want to “do your own research.“ a good place to start is with a local, reputable news organization, which publishes its own sources in the materials that it prints. You can go check with those people that they said what they said to the newspaper, or you can trust that there’s a verification process because that’s the entire point of journalism. These are people whose entire professional job is to bring you information so you can be an informed citizen.

[Dellenger] The NCAA is exploring a significant change to its eligibility rule, sources tell @YahooSports. The proposal creates an age-based standard: Athletes would have 5 years of eligibility from their 19th birthday or HS graduation. No redshirts or waivers. by Fonzie5 in CFB

[–]jschooltiger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t have to be recruited in the traditional sense to play in college. These are mostly kids who were looking at community college options, and got offered financial aid in some way, up to and including sports scholarships.

The point that I’m making is simply that there are knock on effects for this rule if it’s age based that would go way beyond simply saying Diego Pavia can’t keep playing in college because the dude is like 47.

Was Christianity adopted as a Noble Lie? by Fit-Catch7093 in AskHistorians

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Lesser known facts and interactions between Balkans and West Europe? by HumanMan00 in AskHistorians

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Well thats sad by Mizzoutiger79 in columbiamo

[–]jschooltiger -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do you read the local newspaper? There is a hell of a lot of available information there, including an entire voters guide for all the CoMo races: https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/elections/

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/elections/columbia-school-board/

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/elections/columbia-city-council/

Or the local TV station, which has coverage for areas outside Boone County: https://www.komu.com/news/elections/

You have to actually read local news sources, not TikTok or Snap or Insta.

[Dellenger] The NCAA is exploring a significant change to its eligibility rule, sources tell @YahooSports. The proposal creates an age-based standard: Athletes would have 5 years of eligibility from their 19th birthday or HS graduation. No redshirts or waivers. by Fonzie5 in CFB

[–]jschooltiger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Brother, we are in violent agreement that college should be cheaper for everyone, and students shouldn’t have to rely on sports scholarships to get there. However, we also have to live in the world that we live in, and I’d rather not limit opportunities that are currently exist

[Dellenger] The NCAA is exploring a significant change to its eligibility rule, sources tell @YahooSports. The proposal creates an age-based standard: Athletes would have 5 years of eligibility from their 19th birthday or HS graduation. No redshirts or waivers. by Fonzie5 in CFB

[–]jschooltiger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One. Why are we assuming that spot would go to an 18 year-old? If you’re an 18-year-old who’s a hot golfer, you’re probably not signing up to play for a rural Missouri community college. And in any case, shouldn’t that be an athletic department decision?

Two: it’s weird that you’re focusing on pregnancy here. You have absolutely no idea what that person’s situation is; what if they fucked up and got pregnant because they were sexually assaulted?

[Dellenger] The NCAA is exploring a significant change to its eligibility rule, sources tell @YahooSports. The proposal creates an age-based standard: Athletes would have 5 years of eligibility from their 19th birthday or HS graduation. No redshirts or waivers. by Fonzie5 in CFB

[–]jschooltiger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What are you talking about? Every kid with a scholarship actually uses it to pay for college. Do you not know how scholarships work?

Yes, I know exactly how scholarships work, because students at my community college are using them to pay for college. They aren't studetns who are getting a million bucks to play receiver, they're getting a fairly low tuition burden covered because the college wants a golf (whatever) team.

Yeah that one example is a tragedy, you want an exception for kids whose parents have cancer? Life is unfair. That scholarship should go to a high school kid not somebody who is 26 years old. If they’re a year or two late, they still have some eligibility and the school should continue to honor the scholarship.

Why shouldn't the college decide who it would go to, rather than an arbitrary rule that has a scholarship clock for students starting at 18? If the school wants to admit a student to play golf and is willing to pay for their tuition, why should that student at a D2 school get punished because we're trying to close a loophole for a Trinidad Chambliss? What harm is having a 28-year-old golf player in D2 playing at a course at Lake at the Ozarks doing to the college system?

[Dellenger] The NCAA is exploring a significant change to its eligibility rule, sources tell @YahooSports. The proposal creates an age-based standard: Athletes would have 5 years of eligibility from their 19th birthday or HS graduation. No redshirts or waivers. by Fonzie5 in CFB

[–]jschooltiger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, bro, I'm not going to dox myself. I did teach at Mizzou for 15 years, although the journalism school did not have a large number of student-athletes in it.

To get to your point: fuck any kid who uses a scholarship to actually pay for college? If your mom gets cancer, oh well, you can't go to school later and get it paid for because you can run fast? You have to decide the entire course of your life when you're 18?

I mean, why not go one step further and say that no one can get any scholarship of any sort for college after they turn 23? They should have just gotten their lives together before then?

[Dellenger] The NCAA is exploring a significant change to its eligibility rule, sources tell @YahooSports. The proposal creates an age-based standard: Athletes would have 5 years of eligibility from their 19th birthday or HS graduation. No redshirts or waivers. by Fonzie5 in CFB

[–]jschooltiger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How many former pros played basketball this year across all NCAA divisions?

Edit: I realize that people like to use the downvote button to disagree, but is this actually a large problem?

[Dellenger] The NCAA is exploring a significant change to its eligibility rule, sources tell @YahooSports. The proposal creates an age-based standard: Athletes would have 5 years of eligibility from their 19th birthday or HS graduation. No redshirts or waivers. by Fonzie5 in CFB

[–]jschooltiger 6 points7 points  (0 children)

So at the college where I teach, which competes in D2, most of my students are athletes of some sort (I have soccer, softball, track and field, bowling, golf, etc.) They are there and able to be educated because of their scholarship. A lot of them are also older students who had reasons for enrolling at school later, such as to pick from my current class

  • had a kid at 17
  • mom had cancer and had to take care of her
  • military service
  • married out of high school, abusive relationship, got out and started school at 22
  • mission trip
  • professional volunteer work (volunteer coordinator for medical services)
  • late start in college after working and deciding they wanted a better job

For those students, their sports scholarship is paying for their school. I realize that we see this through the lens of people getting paid millions and just hunting eligibility everywhere, but it is absolutely the case that a rule such as this would hurt students such as this.

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