After Twenty Years, It Is Time To Take a Stand
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:47 pmSMU has pretended to want a major sports program in football and backetball for twenty years. For twenty years it has simply gone through the motions--basically lying to all of us that have been foolish enough to beleive that they were sincere. Surely anything can be fixed in twenty years!if you are really trying!
Now comes an issue regarding a player who obviously was wrong in striking another student. This probably goes on every weekend. But, the issue involves another student that has a an orientation that has become vogue for the liberals in our society and faculty.
For twenty years, the faculty have held down the resurgance of SMU athletics, blaming powerfull board members and the penalties handed down by the NCAA, which were unique to any other member.
During the Pye years, they gained a disproportionate "say so" in the running of the school and athletics, to the extent, we have become one of the worst sports programs in the history of the NCAA. Over twenty years, we have failed to have a single season in either football or basketball that has excelled by any measure.
The faculty senate has ruled our admissions and transfer policies to such an extent that even transfers from better accademic institutions were barred (Northwestern University). At the same time they have not performed their own investigation into their own staff and performance, including a number of mediocre departments.
Alumns it is time to get our school back. The situation this past year is an embarassment to the school and all alumns. It is bad enough to be the laughing stock of any college conversation every Monday afternoon in the fall, but when one of our players can't defend himself againt an unwanted intruder, who is trespassing on private property, who the school treats as guilty until proven innocent, by publicly banishing him from the team and making the assumption that it was a hate crime, it is time to stand up and say enough is enough. Our player obviously was wrong in striking the boy, but the boy was trespassing, and refused to leave a private residence. Two wrongs don't make a right, but either does dragging this thing through the papers. If Justin had started Friday, and everyone had waited to either mediate this or let the Dallas police and even the Dallas courts handle this, I wonder if wouldn't have been more acceptable both victims. I also wonder what sanctions have been played on the other party? If it is truely a "hate crime", quite frankly, SMU is out of its juridiction and it is a matter for the Dallas DA.
At least the school can be honest with us, do they or do they not want a sports program? If not, my money, your money and our time can best go elsewhere, like it has for 75% of our fellow alumi.
Now comes an issue regarding a player who obviously was wrong in striking another student. This probably goes on every weekend. But, the issue involves another student that has a an orientation that has become vogue for the liberals in our society and faculty.
For twenty years, the faculty have held down the resurgance of SMU athletics, blaming powerfull board members and the penalties handed down by the NCAA, which were unique to any other member.
During the Pye years, they gained a disproportionate "say so" in the running of the school and athletics, to the extent, we have become one of the worst sports programs in the history of the NCAA. Over twenty years, we have failed to have a single season in either football or basketball that has excelled by any measure.
The faculty senate has ruled our admissions and transfer policies to such an extent that even transfers from better accademic institutions were barred (Northwestern University). At the same time they have not performed their own investigation into their own staff and performance, including a number of mediocre departments.
Alumns it is time to get our school back. The situation this past year is an embarassment to the school and all alumns. It is bad enough to be the laughing stock of any college conversation every Monday afternoon in the fall, but when one of our players can't defend himself againt an unwanted intruder, who is trespassing on private property, who the school treats as guilty until proven innocent, by publicly banishing him from the team and making the assumption that it was a hate crime, it is time to stand up and say enough is enough. Our player obviously was wrong in striking the boy, but the boy was trespassing, and refused to leave a private residence. Two wrongs don't make a right, but either does dragging this thing through the papers. If Justin had started Friday, and everyone had waited to either mediate this or let the Dallas police and even the Dallas courts handle this, I wonder if wouldn't have been more acceptable both victims. I also wonder what sanctions have been played on the other party? If it is truely a "hate crime", quite frankly, SMU is out of its juridiction and it is a matter for the Dallas DA.
At least the school can be honest with us, do they or do they not want a sports program? If not, my money, your money and our time can best go elsewhere, like it has for 75% of our fellow alumi.