From what I understand the players are tired of taking long bus trips to away games,think they should be flying.The teams not happy with the firing of Doug Williams,they bring a new coach in,the team thinks hes a snake so he gets shit canned.Mold in some of the players facilities that the players say should have been taken care of a while ago.....Just to name a few problems.
we had a black football coach in high school. he went to grambling. one of the guys on our team was a stud player who was white. he had a few scholarship offers but not from any big name schools. coach told him he should go to grambling...he said, "white kid with your looks, you'd be a god. you'd get all the black bitches you could handle". LOL
he didnt listen though...went to northwestern and played special teams
he didnt listen though...went to northwestern and played special teams
Doug Williams let his team down. If he knew this years team was going to be very bad or didnt put forth the effort himself doesnt really matter plain facts are he quit on them.
When he was dismissed he didnt say a word , he just got up and left. He didnt want to be there. Now the team is faced with losing and not taking it well. They learned to quit from their former Coach and quitting seems easy for them. Why would a 20yr old kid want to spend his weekend riding a bus hundreds of miles back and forth to a game in a city he knows nothing about just to lose in front of fans he doesnt know.
Grambling like most SWAC schools is dead broke. They dont generate a dime, everything they get comes from the Govt. Their facilities are ghetto and nobody cares. They travel all over the country trying to find fans to play in front of. Grambling plays Alcorn in Detroit because if they played at either school they wouldnt draw 3000 people. Its all about the money....The only reason its such a big story around here right now is because the SWAC will lose so much money if they quit for the year.
The kids are being used, their coach was a quitter, their fans dont give a crap about any of it because they basically have no fans. If they played their games on campus like other schools have to do there wouldnt even be a football team, it would have been disbanded 10 years ago.
If it seems like nobody gives a crap about the students its for 1 reason......Nobody gives a crap about the students..
When he was dismissed he didnt say a word , he just got up and left. He didnt want to be there. Now the team is faced with losing and not taking it well. They learned to quit from their former Coach and quitting seems easy for them. Why would a 20yr old kid want to spend his weekend riding a bus hundreds of miles back and forth to a game in a city he knows nothing about just to lose in front of fans he doesnt know.
Grambling like most SWAC schools is dead broke. They dont generate a dime, everything they get comes from the Govt. Their facilities are ghetto and nobody cares. They travel all over the country trying to find fans to play in front of. Grambling plays Alcorn in Detroit because if they played at either school they wouldnt draw 3000 people. Its all about the money....The only reason its such a big story around here right now is because the SWAC will lose so much money if they quit for the year.
The kids are being used, their coach was a quitter, their fans dont give a crap about any of it because they basically have no fans. If they played their games on campus like other schools have to do there wouldnt even be a football team, it would have been disbanded 10 years ago.
If it seems like nobody gives a crap about the students its for 1 reason......Nobody gives a crap about the students..
No wonder they did what they did. Would you play in the conditions listed below. Truly a sad state of affairs there and I am certain at numerous other small universities.
State funding for the school has been cut 57 percent since 2007-08, according to the school's fundraising literature. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and the state legislature have cut $269 million from higher education since 2009, the year Jindal turned down federal stimulus funds. Grambling lost $6 million, causing the school's Office of Finance and Administration to say the school has gone from "state 'funded'" to "state 'assisted.'"
Former coach Doug Williams, a school legend whose firing earlier this season is a big part of what prompted this, found himself caught in a bureaucratic vortex when he got new flooring donated for the team's dilapidated weight room only to have it locked away, unused, because he failed to follow protocol, Sports Illustrated reported. The team has been forced to bus to games in Kansas City and Indianapolis, the latter 15 hours each way and evidently the catalyst for the players' decision to boycott practice Wednesday and Thursday, and ultimately refuse to play against Jackson State.
They have only six full-time coaches, which means some of them have to coach more than one position. Smith told Sports Illustrated the team doesn't receive enough protein drinks for everyone to share. They ration it out, lifeboat-style, to guys who are deemed to need it most. Sophomore defensive back Dwight Amphy told SI the players aren't expecting 40 different uniform combinations and an iPad in every locker. "We knew we weren't going to LSU," he said.
Consider for a moment the logistics of the Tigers' trip to Indianapolis: The bus left Grambling at 6 p.m. Thursday and arrived at 9 a.m. Friday. Is this – 15 hours in a bus between Thursday and Friday, 15 more between Saturday and Sunday – the student-athlete model the NCAA wants to promote? Is this the embodiment of the mission statement that calls for the NCAA "to integrate intercollegiate athletics into higher education so that the educational experience of the student athlete is paramount"?
The school's administration, facing worse cuts next year after already raising tuition, could shrug its shoulders and close down the entire program. Football doesn't make money for Grambling; it ran a deficit of more than $1 million last year. Without the appearance of a huge T. Boone Pickens-type donor, it's fair to ask whether a school like Grambling -- despite its rich history -- can continue to sustain not just football but all athletics under the current constraints.
So that's the fear: no more football. Then again: 30 hours in a bus to lose 48-0; mildewed facilities; borderline dangerous weight-room flooring while new flooring remains locked behind bureaucratic stubbornness.
State funding for the school has been cut 57 percent since 2007-08, according to the school's fundraising literature. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and the state legislature have cut $269 million from higher education since 2009, the year Jindal turned down federal stimulus funds. Grambling lost $6 million, causing the school's Office of Finance and Administration to say the school has gone from "state 'funded'" to "state 'assisted.'"
Former coach Doug Williams, a school legend whose firing earlier this season is a big part of what prompted this, found himself caught in a bureaucratic vortex when he got new flooring donated for the team's dilapidated weight room only to have it locked away, unused, because he failed to follow protocol, Sports Illustrated reported. The team has been forced to bus to games in Kansas City and Indianapolis, the latter 15 hours each way and evidently the catalyst for the players' decision to boycott practice Wednesday and Thursday, and ultimately refuse to play against Jackson State.
They have only six full-time coaches, which means some of them have to coach more than one position. Smith told Sports Illustrated the team doesn't receive enough protein drinks for everyone to share. They ration it out, lifeboat-style, to guys who are deemed to need it most. Sophomore defensive back Dwight Amphy told SI the players aren't expecting 40 different uniform combinations and an iPad in every locker. "We knew we weren't going to LSU," he said.
Consider for a moment the logistics of the Tigers' trip to Indianapolis: The bus left Grambling at 6 p.m. Thursday and arrived at 9 a.m. Friday. Is this – 15 hours in a bus between Thursday and Friday, 15 more between Saturday and Sunday – the student-athlete model the NCAA wants to promote? Is this the embodiment of the mission statement that calls for the NCAA "to integrate intercollegiate athletics into higher education so that the educational experience of the student athlete is paramount"?
The school's administration, facing worse cuts next year after already raising tuition, could shrug its shoulders and close down the entire program. Football doesn't make money for Grambling; it ran a deficit of more than $1 million last year. Without the appearance of a huge T. Boone Pickens-type donor, it's fair to ask whether a school like Grambling -- despite its rich history -- can continue to sustain not just football but all athletics under the current constraints.
So that's the fear: no more football. Then again: 30 hours in a bus to lose 48-0; mildewed facilities; borderline dangerous weight-room flooring while new flooring remains locked behind bureaucratic stubbornness.
