The state of South Carolina can continue to fly the Confederacy's Battle Flag at the foot of the steps of the State House.
Or
Clemson and South Carolina can host NCAA Baseball play-off tournaments.
The Black Coaches Association is putting pressure of the NCAA to expand is current boycott of the state to include ALL NCAA events. This would appear to include soccer tournament games, and the baseball playoffs.
It is a safe bet that this request will be approved. This NAACP inspired boycott has been in place since 2000. The NCAA has a partial sanction in place against the state, but the lack of any effort in resolving the NAACP complaint makes the escalation of the existing sanctions very predictable.
Flag supporters claim that the NAACP is refusing to honor it's agreement that removed the flag from the top of the state house. The NAACP claims that the flag supporters violated the agreement by placing the flag in to prominent of a position, that was more visible than the one it was removed from.
Both sides are right. This assures that when the NCAA does act, the talks that will follow will be very spirited. There is little doubt that this has the potential to become a real time and focus eater. When it does work it's way into the State House, it could end up being the primary focus of a whole session.
If you are a fan of NCAA playoff events, I recommend that you accept the idea that none of them will be back into our state anytime soon.
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One supposes that the remaining option is to sweep the CWS between, the Cocks, Tigers, Bulldogs and maybe Eagles and hoist a confederate battle flag over Omaha.
What if the ACC and the SEC just secede from the NCAA and create our own CNAA - Confederate National Athletic Association? The ACC might have to kick out Boston College, but they could get East Carolina cheap.
There is little doubt that this has the potential to become a real time and focus eater
Which is, of course, the whole point of legislative discussion of the issue. Yammering about the confederate flag is easy. Governing is hard.
Amen rick,
and Tim, what of Maryland, can the ACC keep them? :-D
I think Maryland would stay in the ACC... they consider themselves "southern". Hopefully football season will drown out this as an issue. They really should've pursued this in late June, when there was no other sports news to speak of.
I guess Maryland stays, although speaking of flags, that one they have is god-awful.
it amazes me that groups such as the naacp wish to bring economic harm to a state over this issue. shouldnt they be worrying more about the violent black on black crimes that riddle black communities? or maybe even be concerned about the education problem in the state. i guess the naacp only cares about stirring up divisive issues that will ensure their own self preservation.
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