Ray Lewis is insufferable. During the National Anthem last night most people were standing around looking bored or thinking about the game. Ray Lewis was practically in tears. Then he was rolling around screaming about Jesus after they won. What horrible pre-game show are we going to have this jackass on in the future?
What you seem to be saying is that people can't change. I'm not a Lewis fan or apologist, but I also don't follow the NFL so I don't know much about him. And this idea of change also applies to programs like Stubenville. So many people are tied to that program, financially and emotionally, that it makes change difficult. But, change is possible. If people accept that change is possible.
Well, he went to "the U" which is strike one in my book. He was a party to a murder and through good lawyering, his role was swept under the Astroturf..strike 2. He dances on the field in a "look at me" way which is an embarrassment to every hardass linebacker of yesteryear. A complete douchebag.
First, people have to admit there is a problem, which most of the people from Steubenville I have heard from aren't doing.
Sandusky retired after the 1999 season. Tom Bradley replaced him as defensive coordinator. Sandusky was no longer defensive coordinator when the events witnessed by Calhoun (and later McQueary) took place. When I was on campus, it was difficult to determine where the university ended and where the Second Mile began. Anyway, we should probably move Penn State discussion to the Penn State thread and leave this one for the Steubenville situation.
I like Ray Lewis. He should be a first ballot Hall of Famer. He also got charged with murder, despite not having killed anyone.
Crimes > discovered crimes > reported crimes > recorded crimes http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=dcdetail&iid=245 http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=4393 ... the highest percentages of unreported crime ... household theft (67%) and rape or sexual assault (65%) ... a greater percentage of victimizations perpetrated by someone the victim knew well (62%) went unreported to police, compared to victimizations committed by a stranger (51%).
The military has problems at the top, and at the bottom: http://news.yahoo.com/sex-major-reason-military-commanders-fired-123720150.html http://news.yahoo.com/few-report-sex-assaults-military-academies-195038074.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/06/military-sexual-assault-defense-department_n_1834196.html A little light reading: http://www.sapr.mil/media/pdf/repor..._Report_on_Sexual_Assault_in_the_Military.pdf
It's hard to deny this, but we are talking about amateur (youth level) sports here. The fact that we are comparing that to what might happen in churches and the board rooms of companies is rather telling.
In the US, small towns live and die for their high school football team. If Steubenville was located in Europe, they'd probably have a lower division side. They'd still have a 10,000 seat stadium. Sports just wouldn't be mixed up with the education process.
more about power and sexual assault... http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-lackland-hearing-20130124,0,5798319.story
Especially when the perpetrator (and his organization) were one of Bush 41's Thousand Points of Light.
You need to attend some meetings and view the hierarchy of some American youth-level sports organizations.
I think watching Friday Night High School games on ESPNU should do the trick. He's a smart guy,he'll connect the dots from there.
Of the local sports teams in Steubenville, I prefer Franciscan U. Barons soccer, to any Steubenville Big Red side.
um not exactly a season worth following... http://www.franciscanathletics.com/sports/msoc/2012-13/schedule
I'm reminded of that segment of "sports" fans who love college basketball, love Duke, for example, but won't watch the NBA. When cornered, they tend to profess a love for "fundamental" ball (completely ignorant of the fact that this is athletics and they're making a virtue of the very ordinary) and "fundamental" players (who actually aren't as fundamental as the NBA guys, but look more so because they don't have anything else in the way of skills). Either that or they profess a love for guys who aren't "flashy", whatever that means, or demonstrative in a way that doesn't jibe with a narrow worldview. I'm almost certain you're not in... that category, but why does the U trigger such knee-jerk responses from otherwise politically reasonable people? All I ever saw when I watched Miami was a bunch of talented young men who were maybe rough around the edges. Sure, they were a bit more demonstrative than you'd see at some other places, but I was prouder of them than I've ever been of any of the players of color who suited up for the last seven B(C)S champions. I'll support a Black player who doesn't feel the need to be humble ever day over one who deliberately goes to a program where he needs to "know his role", so to speak.
Hey, they lost to not one but two colleges at which I used to work. I'm surprised Wash & Jeff didn't put a bigger beatdown on them. And D'Youville is not the one team I'd expect them to have beaten. Two of my former students combined for 3 of four goals against them in one of their losses.