Eight Husker Football Players Sue the Big Ten

[knapplc]

Just now, WyoHusker56 said:

I saw someone else point this out elsewhere, but the B1G redacted more than 11 pages of the 13 page bylaws they submitted to the court. I mean can you try harder to make it look like you are hiding something?

 

That's the part that has me intrigued. What are they thinking doing that? And why do they think that they can foist that kind of half-a$$ response - along with the rest of these half-a$$ responses - onto the sports world and they'll just accept it?

 

There are so many self-inflicted wounds in this process. Makes you wonder how many people are going to be losing their jobs over this when all's said & done. 

[WyoHusker56]

16 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

That's the part that has me intrigued. What are they thinking doing that? And why do they think that they can foist that kind of half-a$$ response - along with the rest of these half-a$$ responses - onto the sports world and they'll just accept it?

 

There are so many self-inflicted wounds in this process. Makes you wonder how many people are going to be losing their jobs over this when all's said & done. 

 

The PR people need to reevaluate what they are doing that's for sure. They couldn't make it look like they are hiding something more if they tried.

[knapplc]

4 minutes ago, WyoHusker56 said:

 

The PR people need to reevaluate what they are doing that's for sure. They couldn't make it look like they are hiding something more if they tried.

 

What's going to be the ultimate face-palm is if it turns out they made what they thought was a good decision in the best interests of the greater good, but have just utterly botched anything resembling an explanation for it.

 

Which I can see, with the whole "ivory tower" mentality whereby they're the smartest person in the room and they shouldn't be questioned. The more they are questioned, the more I could see that kind of person digging their heels in, being unable to see the bigger picture of how that looks outside of academia. 

[WyoHusker56]

7 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

What's going to be the ultimate face-palm is if it turns out they made what they thought was a good decision in the best interests of the greater good, but have just utterly botched anything resembling an explanation for it.

 

Which I can see, with the whole "ivory tower" mentality whereby they're the smartest person in the room and they shouldn't be questioned. The more they are questioned, the more I could see that kind of person digging their heels in, being unable to see the bigger picture of how that looks outside of academia. 

 

At the time they made the decision I didn't have a huge problem with it other than don't do it a week after you announce the schedule that's bad optics. However, the more they botch handling it since the more irritated I've become with it. Plus everything now is flying in the face of cancelling, yet they seem to refuse to budge on the decision. HS sports are going off successfully all over, testing has advanced in a major way, college sports are happening successfully and yet they refuse to even address any of this publicly. They're bringing this all on themselves even if their initial decision was correct at the time. It's exactly the whole ivory tower mentality, they can't admit maybe they should reconsider.

[knapplc]

Just now, WyoHusker56 said:

 

At the time they made the decision I didn't have a huge problem with it other than don't do it a week after you announce the schedule that's bad optics. However, the more they botch handling it since the more irritated I've become with it. Plus everything now is flying in the face of cancelling, yet they seem to refuse to budge on the decision. HS sports are going off successfully all over, testing has advanced in a major way, college sports are happening successfully and yet they refuse to even address any of this publicly. They're bringing this all on themselves even if their initial decision was correct at the time. It's exactly the whole ivory tower mentality, they can't admit maybe they should reconsider.

 

Yes. The whole "the decision won't be revisited" line in the letter, especially coming weeks after the spit-test had been made available, was pretty galling. 

 

It seemed more of "Don't question us" than "We're basing our decisions on the best-available science at the time" and that's where my opinion really started changing. 

[admo]

19 minutes ago, WyoHusker56 said:

 

The PR people need to reevaluate what they are doing that's for sure. They couldn't make it look like they are hiding something more if they tried.

 

Disagree.  I think Puerto Ricans are pretty cool.  

[WyoHusker56]

1 minute ago, admo said:

 

Disagree.  I think Puerto Ricans are pretty cool.  

 

Haha, I take it all back.

4 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

Yes. The whole "the decision won't be revisited" line in the letter, especially coming weeks after the spit-test had been made available, was pretty galling. 

 

It seemed more of "Don't question us" than "We're basing our decisions on the best-available science at the time" and that's where my opinion really started changing. 

 

I always thought they'd eat that line.

[Mavric]

 

[krc1995]

On 9/8/2020 at 2:39 PM, knapplc said:

 

That's the part that has me intrigued. What are they thinking doing that? And why do they think that they can foist that kind of half-a$$ response - along with the rest of these half-a$$ responses - onto the sports world and they'll just accept it?

 

There are so many self-inflicted wounds in this process. Makes you wonder how many people are going to be losing their jobs over this when all's said & done. 

Buying time? Hoping Covid goes rampant and the season is killed 

[schriznoeder]

 

[admo]

Tom Mars

 

@tallanmars

FYI, the Big 10 filed its Bylaws in the Nebraska state court with all but the sections shown here blacked out. The rest of the filing was just page after page of nothing but black. ... I’m not kidding.

 

 

 

[84HuskerLaw]

58 minutes ago, schriznoeder said:

 

Hm?   How much thicker can this plot get?   lol.  

I had the same experience with finding the by laws via google before a few days later I could not.  I was starting to wonder if had been secretly drinking heavily in my sleep as I dont drink at all when awake!    

[flatwaterfan]

Why would they blacken out sections of the bylaws?   There should be nothing that is confidential.   This is nuts.

[WyoHusker56]

1 hour ago, flatwaterfan said:

Why would they blacken out sections of the bylaws?   There should be nothing that is confidential.   This is nuts.

 

I've seen speculation that they don't actually need the 9 vote super majority, but instead a simple majority (8) to reinstate the season and they don't want that out. A lot of lawyers are jumping on this now though and all of them agree you only do that if something in there hurts your case and you don't want it out.

[knapplc]

4 minutes ago, WyoHusker56 said:

 

I've seen speculation that they don't actually need the 9 vote super majority, but instead a simple majority (8) to reinstate the season and they don't want that out. A lot of lawyers are jumping on this now though and all of them agree you only do that if something in there hurts your case and you don't want it out.

 

 

The Big Ten members who voted for No Football are probably furiously rewriting the redacted sections of the bylaws as we speak.