Why Mizzou football players could be a game changer for student activism

[Buzz Clik]

28. Indeed. The sleeping giant.

Keep in mind:

a) The football team generates the revenue that allows every other sport to survive with the single exception of men's basketball. If that revenue is diminished, just about every other sport suffers immeasurably.

b) The University, the entire conference, and the NCAA are bathed in money from the football team. If the Mizzou (or any other school) football team jeopardizes that money, there will be hell to pay. And don't forget the filthy rich sponsors that not only own football, they also own the university.

c) If any group is seen to threaten that amount of money, they will be gone in a flash. Wolfe and Loftin screwed up and stepped down before the money was threatened, but it won't happen again.

d) There are thousands of high school football players every year who are turned away from scholarship opportunities, and they would gleefully step in to replace the entire team if necessary. If these "student"-athletes overplay their hand, they will be gone from the university before you can say "revoked scholarship."

Cue the angry responses to my post

Sorry, but those are the facts.