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09-13-2021, 09:06 AM | #1 |
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I'm completely shocked we didn't hear a peep from LGTBQ advocates this time around.
Many people thought that was the primary reason we didn't get in in 2016, and that reason is, of course, still lingering. I saw a CNBC video about cancelling over social justice. In order for a business to be cancel somebody (pull their endorsements out), they need to believe that not doing so will hurt their profits. That would mean the Big 12 would have to fear (1) getting their ESPN money cancelled, and/or (2) get hurt at the gate for taking BYU. Given the ESPN's longstanding working relationship with BYU, (1) is unlikely. (2) is also unlikely because the SW is conservative, even if the student body isn't. Doesn't make our admittance to the conference any less surprising.
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09-14-2021, 03:47 AM | #2 |
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I am betting behind the scenes BYU took steps to assure the other schools that they would be stepping more in line. For example, the invitation to the Big 12 came not long after BYU announced their new inclusion office (whatever Mormon-PC name they called it). Which happened to be the same time as the "muskets" LGBT talk. I think the politics of the Mormon hierarchy is more complicated than we think. That's what I took away from the David O. McKay biography, among other things.
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09-14-2021, 01:11 PM | #3 |
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Cool. If all it takes is an inclusion office, I was tripping about nothing.
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09-15-2021, 02:55 AM | #4 |
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