UNCs White House visit ...
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They did make this perfectly clear.
Really? There are some already insinuating it's a political statement by UNC and RW, both known for their leftwarrd leaning!
Please let's not let UNC bball become a leftist perversion too!!!
UNC should alter it's very own schedule to get to the White House, just to show equality, solidarity!
Believe me, the left is going to make us look terrible for this. ... Please go to the White House!!!!
"The team and Coach [Roy] Williams wanted to go, but we couldn't find a date that worked for everyone," North Carolina spokesman Steve Kirschner told ESPN on Saturday afternoon.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...not-visit-white-house-due-scheduling-conflict
Maybe you should pull for dook. I believe The rat's political views are much more to your liking.
This has to be some sort of parody account
My opinion and my opinion only:
Roy Williams and the players should have tried harder to "find a date that works for everyone" and should've visited the White House. It's one day out of your lives. It reflects poorly on the university, and by extension, its alumni, when the team declines to attend. The optics of this look bad because Williams/UNC used the same reasoning not to attend the Bush White House in 2005, but were able to find the time to squeeze in a visit to the Obama White House in 2009. Some things are bigger than politics.
Others will disagree, and you're fine to do so. Go Heels
Roy Williams and the players should have tried harder to "find a date that works for everyone" and should've visited the White House. It's one day out of your lives. It reflects poorly on the university, and by extension, its alumni, when the team declines to attend. The optics of this look bad because Williams/UNC used the same reasoning not to attend the Bush White House in 2005, but were able to find the time to squeeze in a visit to the Obama White House in 2009. Some things are bigger than politics.
Others will disagree, and you're fine to do so. Go Heels
I present this purely as a comparative metric:
Clemson's football team is attending (already attended?) the Trump White House.
Clemson's football team is attending (already attended?) the Trump White House.
I'd be willing to bet that it's a lot of political preference. Dabo loves Trump
Roy doesn't like Bush or Trump. What a shock. And, I realize politics shouldn't play a role in it. But, nowadays, politics is playing a role in everything.
Yeah, that tends to happen when the POTUS calls a group of athletes SOB's. The same dude that years ago said the president shouldn't tell NFL owners what to do. Weird, huh?
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It wasn't Dabo's decision. The team decided it. Team leader and future NFL star Christian Wilkins (he's black) spoke eloquently about why they decided to do it. They saw it as an honor, even though many on the team disagreed with the president's politics.
But yes, agreed, politics shouldn't play a role in it. It's purely an honorary thing. It's not political at all. It offends me that Roy and his team did not go in 2005 and aren't going now. I am just one person and I do not expect anyone to feel sorry that it offends me. But it does offend me as a Carolina alumnus and as an American.
He means well. He just has a much different social perspective than most people. Even most presidents, for that matter. You look at the presidents throughout recent times who have come from privilege... not many. Kennedy, Bush Jr., and Trump. I'd say Kennedy had the best ability to become "average guy." Dubya pretended to be average guy. Trump has no fvcking clue what that is, and he's been a celebrity most of his adult life. And, not a political celebrity either. I kinda feel for him once he leaves office. All of those sports and entertainment celebs that he used to love and buddy-up with won't want to have anything to do with him. He'll be like OJ... persona-non-grata in his old circles.
I just told you the team decided. Don't let that fact get in the way of your cool argument though.
Just no. Y'all all need to stop taking heelswin's poasts seriously. I'm kinda surprised.
Hell no! Swinney has got his pick for perpetuity. Or, until Venables leaves.
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If they decided not to go for their own personal or political reasons I bet it was more the players than Roy. Normally, I would say go no matter who is in the WH but when he basically is calling athletes names the way he did I can't really blame them.
It was tounge-in-cheek. I'm not believing a freaking thing that dude poasts.
I don't recall when all these White House visits started but It's just kinda played out to me. Personally I don't care if they go or not, no matter who the potus is.
It started with Forrest Gump and Kennedy.
Done with the NFL unless the league starts enforcing its own rules regarding the flag and national anthem. I think that better happen soon or they will lose millions of fans, perhaps permanently. The TV remote and the pocket book are powerful weapons of mass destruction, and the league better get that straight in their thick skulls.
No coincidence that in 2005 and 2017 GOP occupied the WH and Roy couldn't or wouldn't work it out with WH to honor his players. While I'm sure this move earns the approval of liberals in academia and media and plays well with liberal politicians it doesn't play well with millions of Tar Heel fans like me. The TV remote and the fan's pocket books are powerful weapons of mass destruction.
No coincidence that in 2005 and 2017 GOP occupied the WH and Roy couldn't or wouldn't work it out with WH to honor his players. While I'm sure this move earns the approval of liberals in academia and media and plays well with liberal politicians it doesn't play well with millions of Tar Heel fans like me. The TV remote and the fan's pocket books are powerful weapons of mass destruction.
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I assume Roy cares more about what his players feel than a few fans who won't support the team because they need to feel good about some arbitrary stance they need to make to themselves. I'm thankful for that.
Assume whatever you want. WRT UNC and the WH visit, I will just leave it at this: Whatever Roy and UNC think they can afford.
Smacks of politics by a left leaning institution and coach.
You need separation, Bubba, Roy, Dr. Folt!!!
I love this guy!
I didnt vote for trump but i was willing to give him benefit of the doubt. Partly cause i have no choice but also because i respect the office as being bigger than one man. Unfortunately though trump has turned it into his personal litter box. Its a shit show. We’re divided over statues and the anthem. I originally thought they should attend if invited but not now.
Don't get me wrong .... I love me some Coach Roy and the Heels, even if they have a different slant than l. Dean did too but l dearly loved him, just not his politics!!!
The fact that athletes even go to the White House is part of the whole problem. Do we want Washington to be a place of business or celebrity? Because it's tough to have both.
However, it's been pretty obvious since 2008 that this country prefers celebrity.
However, it's been pretty obvious since 2008 that this country prefers celebrity.
