Perspective: The NCAA wouldn’t pull its Final Fours from Texas, so I’m staying home
I interviewed baseball commissioner Rob Manfred not long after, and he said MLB’s decision was influenced by the threat of a player boycott of the game. Manfred, a member of Augusta National Golf Club, did not attend that year’s Masters after making the decision to move the game.When I asked him whether he avoided the tournament because he was afraid of backlash from his fellow members, he said, “Only the club chairman comments on matters regarding the club.
Translation: “We aren’t messing with the gun activists,” which is as true now as it is when I wrote it then. . Uvalde, however, was a moment to respond directly to a tragedy that should have horrified everyone. No one took any action.taken action, corporations — especially those that advertise on TV during the basketball tournaments and those affected directly by a major event not showing up in their city — might have begun pushing for change because the lack of legislation would cost them in dollars and in marketing.
Of course, it won’t happen. There’s nothing I can do, say or write to turn the NCAA into an organization with moral standards.
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