Link: It's getting ugly at Grambling....

[RammerJammer15]

I'm glad to see them stand up for something. Sounds like if they get hurt, Grambling dang sure ain't gonna help them so why even risk getting hurt? Hope they get help out of this. Busing that far to Indy was just crazy!

And if they're that poor, they shouldn't be scheduling games in Indianapolis!

 

[gamersfuel]

i dont have a problem with it. If there is something you think isnt right, you dont just sit there while nothing is done about it. If you truly believe you are being wronged, you make a stand. what anyone else thinks is irrelevant.

 

[Crimson1967]

I'm not normally a fan of just quitting, but if they are having to ride a bus to Indianapolis (while Alcorn State flew) and not getting fed, I'd tell them to go fly a kite.

The SWAC is at the bottom of the FCS so I imagine a lot of them are indeed there because that is the best they could do.

 

[B1GTide]

Sounds like the school president stopped caring about the players, so the players finally decided to stand up for themselves. An example of the absurdity at the school - an excerpt from an ESPN article:

Williams had raised funds through an alumni group and bought sorely needed new mats for the weight room, SI reported. The old mats presented safety hazards, but since the raised money had not gone through the school's foundation, the school president and athletic director ordered the new mats to be stored in another building, according to SI.

So the head coach sees a sefety issue, doesn't get funds to cover it, raises the funds, but the school president won't let them use the mats because of the way that the funds were organized. Then they fired Williams a week later. Yeah, something going on at that school, and it didn't start with the players.

 

[RammerJammer15]

Jackson State's homecoming game against Grambling has been cancelled, instead will be a Scrimmage. Wow.

 

[TommyMac]

Some of y'all evidently think the players are out of line, but geez, how many would stand for their own kid having to go on extended bus trips without even getting fed?

 

[BamaJama17]

I bet there is plenty of money just a lot more fraud.

 

[RammerJammer15]

Some of y'all evidently think the players are out of line, but geez, how many would stand for their own kid having to go on extended bus trips without even getting fed?

Yeah, to call the players selfish is asinine.

 

[JBama_in_PCOLA]

This is the ugliest of ugly!


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[BamaGrad2005]

Sounds like the school president stopped caring about the players, so the players finally decided to stand up for themselves. An example of the absurdity at the school - an excerpt from an ESPN article:

So the head coach sees a sefety issue, doesn't get funds to cover it, raises the funds, but the school president won't let them use the mats because of the way that the funds were organized. Then they fired Williams a week later. Yeah, something going on at that school, and it didn't start with the players.

Good point B1GTide. I read about this story on Twitter an hour ago.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20131018/grambling-football/

To me, the players are doing the only thing they can. As a parent, I would fully support my son boycotting this situation. It sounds like the school administration is the most at fault.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Good point B1GTide. I read about this story on Twitter an hour ago.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20131018/grambling-football/

To me, the players are doing the only thing they can. As a parent, I would fully support my son boycotting this situation. It sounds like the school administration is the most at fault.

This whole thing sounds eerily reminiscent of the City of Birmingham Board of Education.

Wholly unqualified people, staking out self-serving positions, dictating the equally self-serving use of godamighty sums of money that were never theirs in the first place.

Welcome to the future.

 

[RTR91]

Sounds like the school president stopped caring about the players, so the players finally decided to stand up for themselves. An example of the absurdity at the school - an excerpt from an ESPN article:

So the head coach sees a sefety issue, doesn't get funds to cover it, raises the funds, but the school president won't let them use the mats because of the way that the funds were organized. Then they fired Williams a week later. Yeah, something going on at that school, and it didn't start with the players.

That sounds similar to the situation at Alabama State.

 

[RammerJammer15]

That sounds similar to the situation at Alabama State.

As crazy as the stuff going on at ASU, it hasn't seemed to seep down into the Athletic department.

 

[RTR91]

As crazy as the stuff going on at ASU, it hasn't seemed to seep down into the Athletic department.

Ask Stacy Danley about that.


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[CajunCrimson]

80 foot long cold cut combos for $5 ---- $400 ---- and they might even deliver.

I do some consulting work with KFC, they just fed Southern on their trip to Pine Bluff Ark this weekend..... $7/person....

 

[RammerJammer15]

Ask Stacy Danley about that.


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Didn't he say he was fired for trying to fire HC Reggie Barlow?

 

[RTR91]

Didn't he say he was fired for trying to fire HC Reggie Barlow?

His firing was fairly sketchy.

 

[TrampLineman]

Now there is reports of mold and mildew on equipment WITH pics that was sent to the AD. Multiple cases of staph. Getting worse and worse over there.

 

[BamaFlum]

What the real story behind Grambling? With Robinson, they were a great program. Man, how the mighty have fallen.

 

[rgw]

It isn't even about Robinson...it is a change in where black athletes want to go. Heck, some of their fall was on Robinson staying too long like Perterno and Bowden.

Grambling use to get elite athletes due to segregation and it continued into post-segregation because the black communities across the South had animosity towards Southern schools who had prevented them from attending their institutions. The fall of HBUC football is really a good thing because it shows how much we've moved past that black mark on our history down here.