{"id":185605,"date":"2014-10-01T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/10\/01\/student-athletes-my-ass-its-legalized-slavery\/"},"modified":"2014-10-01T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T01:47:00","slug":"student-athletes-my-ass-its-legalized-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/10\/01\/student-athletes-my-ass-its-legalized-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Athletes, My Ass.  It&#8217;s Legalized Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of the rout of the University of Michigan football team by the University of Minnesota football team, the coach, Brady Hoke not only declined to pull a student who was clearly concussed, but he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maizenbrew.com\/2014\/9\/28\/6855989\/2014-michigan-wolverines-football-fire-brady-hoke-hot-seat-shane-morris-concussion\">put him back in the game after pulling him<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">But, by the third quarter against Minnesota, things were slipping through Hoke&#8217;s fingers. Once again, Michigan&#8217;s offense was discombobulated, this time with quarterback Shane Morris rather than Devin Gardner, and the Wolverines looked to be in serious trouble when two turnovers in a span of less than two minutes propelled the Gophers to increase their lead from 10-7 to 27-7. At this point, I finally caved and believed that there was little chance for Hoke to save his job, but I still thought he should finish out the season.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">And then <i>this<\/i> happened:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"253\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N1mIcYz-DM8\" width=\"450\"><\/iframe><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b><span 110=\"\"><br \/>2:05 &#8211; 3:58<\/span><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">Morris remains in the game, and then something happens that we never  want to see as college football fans. Morris drops back to pass and  rolls to his left. As Morris flings the football, Minnesota defensive  end Theiren Cockran closes in at full speed, drops his helmet, and  unleashes a dirty and ejectionable helmet-to-helmet hit on Morris.  Morris&#8217; pass is overthrown and incomplete, but, when the ESPN cameras  come back to Morris after the play, we see him walk around dazed for a  few seconds and then&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/N1mIcYz-DM8?t=2m36s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a>:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Morris <i>clearly<\/i> wobbles and tries to prop his head on Ben Braden&#8217;s right arm to remain upright. Braden recognizes this and uses <i>both<\/i>  arms to catch Morris and prevent him from falling to the ground. Braden  then keeps his right arm wrapped around Morris&#8217; back to keep him  standing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/college-football\/players\/206339\/khalid-hill\">Khalid Hill<\/a>  then walks over and says something to Morris, which prompts Morris to  look to the Michigan sideline and wave off a substitution.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But, not only does Morris remain in the game for another snap, Michigan allows him to drop back for a pass, which could lead to him being on the receiving end of another bone-crushing hit delivered by Minnesota&#8217;s pass rush. Absolutely abhorrent. Thankfully, Morris releases his pass before any Gophers can get in the vicinity to do so.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">After the play, the ESPN cameras get a shot of Morris staring at the Michigan sideline, and anyone and everyone with a brain can see that Morris is completely dazed and confused. As Morris drops his head, Hoke and the Michigan staff finally realize that Morris is in no condition to be on a football field and motions for Gardner to replace him.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">One play too late, though.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&nbsp;\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b><span 110=\"\"><br \/>5:05 &#8211; 6:33<\/span><\/b><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">At the end of Gardner&#8217;s third play on the field, during which he  scrambled, his helmet was ripped off by a Minnesota defender.  Accordingly, by rule, Gardner must sit out the following snap unless a  timeout is called by either team.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">The decision here for Hoke should be <i>pretty simple<\/i>: (1) send out third-string quarterback <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/college-football\/players\/134805\/russell-bellomy\">Russell Bellomy<\/a> for the next play; or (2) use one of Michigan&#8217;s remaining two timeouts and keep Gardner in the game.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">But that is not what happens, and what does happen next is a fireable offense.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">As Bellomy removes his headset and begins scrambling to find his  helmet, Morris, who had finally taken off his helmet, starts walking  towards the field of play, puts back on his helmet, and jogs onto the  field. No Michigan coach, including Hoke, or any member of Michigan&#8217;s  training staff stop him. At this point, Bellomy retrieves a helmet &#8212;  one I do not believe is actually his &#8212; and starts to sprint onto the  field before halting when he sees Morris is already in the huddle.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&nbsp;\u2026\u2026\u2026 <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">For starters, Morris <i>never<\/i> should have been in this huddle.  But look at the play clock in the graphic above. THERE ARE A FULL 25  SECONDS ON THE PLAY CLOCK. That is plenty of time for Hoke to either:  (1) call Morris back to the sideline and sub in Bellomy, who now has a  helmet; (2) call a timeout, which still remains an option every second  until the ball is snapped; or (3) PUT IN ANY PLAYER &#8212; WILTON SPEIGHT,  BRIAN CLEARY, ALEX SWIECA, LINEBACKER JAKE RYAN, DEFENSIVE TACKLE WILLIE  HENRY, ETC. &#8212; THAT IS NOT CONCUSSED.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Even&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/N1mIcYz-DM8?t=5m41s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the umpire looks over to Michigan&#8217;s sideline and asks Hoke if he wants to take a timeout<\/a>, to which Hoke declines, before <i>starting<\/i> the play clock.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Disgusting. Reprehensible. Despicable. Atrocious. Disturbing. None of  these adjectives can truly describe just how horrifying it is that Hoke  had absolutely no problem reinserting Morris back into this game. <i>None<\/i>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>all emphasis original<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>People are upset that coach Hoke did this.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m appalled that Hoke, and the athletic director David Brandon, whose tenure as a Domino&#8217;s Pizza CEO and as a Republican political apparatchik (but I repeat myself) presaged his aggressively capitalist management of his &#8220;student athletes&#8221;, have not been fired yet.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a just a failing of U. Mich, it symptomatic of the fundamentally abusive nature of top tier collegiate athletics.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not education, it&#8217;s not athletics, it&#8217;s human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>If it were anything else, everyone involved in this debacle would already be suspended pending termination.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that the QB, Shane Morris, is talking to a lawyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of the rout of the University of Michigan football team by the University of Minnesota football team, the coach, Brady Hoke not only declined to pull a student who was clearly concussed, but he put him back in the game after pulling him: But, by the third quarter against Minnesota, things were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,968,969,1057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-education","category-evil","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}