OT: Former UConn Soccer Player Sues School For Unfair Treatment

[Charliebball]

She got the boot for giving doing something on TV........

Ex-UConn Soccer Player Sues After Losing Scholarship For Giving Finger To TV Camera

 

[Stinger92860]

How dare she be held accountable for her own actions!

 

[noirwestern]

I'm too lazy to dredge through the muck to find dozens, maybe many, many dozens of examples of male players behaving at least as foolishly if not far worse who got a few games suspensions. Or less. Without a list of write ups on her prior to this incident having the scholarship yanked does seem harsh.

 

[vtcwbuff]

I'm too lazy to dredge through the muck to find dozens, maybe many, many dozens of examples of male players behaving at least as foolishly if not far worse who got a few games suspensions. Or less. Without a list of write ups on her prior to this incident having the scholarship yanked does seem harsh.

Or maybe the coach expects more from her players than other coaches.

 

[MilfordHusky]

She got the boot for giving doing something on TV...

Ex-UConn Soccer Player Sues After Losing Scholarship For Giving Finger To TV Camera

Was she saying, "We're #1"?

 

[noirwestern]

Was she saying, "We're #1"?

Or maybe it's Hawaiian for good luck?

 

[TitleTown]

"I did not intend to offend anyone. I was making a celebratory statement that was seriously misinterpreted and misunderstood."

There is a lot of misinterpretation in this world, but I think the meaning of the old 1 finger salute is about as cut and dried as it gets.

 

[noirwestern]

Or maybe the coach expects more from her players than other coaches.

Perhaps she does. It still doesn't make it any less punitive. Might be more to it than what we've heard, there usually is, but to change the course of a young woman's life over a gesture?

 

[UConnNick]

Or maybe the coach expects more from her players than other coaches.

UConn women's soccer coach Len Tsantiris is a him, not a "her".

 

[noirwestern]

This is the end of it for me but if Joe Mixon gets a one year suspension and 100 hours of community service for breaking a woman's jaw, returns to the team, plays, and then heads off into the NF like nothing ever happened, I think, yeah, yanking her scholarship is ridiculous.

 

[HuskyNan]

Perhaps she does. It still doesn't make it any less punitive. Might be more to it than what we've heard, there usually is, but to change the course of a young woman's life over a gesture?

That was my first thought - that perhaps there's some back story that we're not aware of. Tsantiris has been at UConn forever and hasn't pulled a scholarship for misbehavior before, to my knowledge.

 

[stamfordhusky]

This is the end of it for me but if Joe Mixon gets a one year suspension and 100 hours of community service for breaking a woman's jaw, returns to the team, plays, and then heads off into the NF like nothing ever happened, I think, yeah, yanking her scholarship is ridiculous.

No, what's ridiculous is Mixon's punishment. He obviously should have been tossed out of the school.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[sarals24]

The double standard here is ridiculous. A suspension, sitting out some games, etc, would have been appropriate. Pulling her scholarship? That's insane. Unless there is more to the story, but from everything I've read it doesn't appear there is. Pick a school, any school, look at their football team, and I can almost guarantee there is a scandal much, much worse than this that resulted in...nothing.

 

[mdakota]

The double standard here is ridiculous. A suspension, sitting out some games, etc, would have been appropriate. Pulling her scholarship? That's insane. Unless there is more to the story, but from everything I've read it doesn't appear there is. Pick a school, any school, look at their football team, and I can almost guarantee there is a scandal much, much worse than this that resulted in...nothing.

But does this scandal happen on live TV?? or recorded TV or any TV?? Prolly not...

 

[CL82]

Or maybe it's Hawaiian for good luck? View attachment 17800

Lol, how old are dude! (Great reference!)

 

[BroadwayVa]

She got the boot for giving doing something on TV...

Ex-UConn Soccer Player Sues After Losing Scholarship For Giving Finger To TV Camera

I;m a bit confused--did she remove a finger and hand it to a camera --if so what would a camera do with a finger???
Is the school miffed by the manner the finger was removed or the cameras refusal to accept!!/?

Does not appear to be something to sue the school about, does it?? It was her finger to give or keep!!

 

[BroadwayVa]

Lol, how old are dude! (Great reference!)

That may be BUT IN WWII that was the Italian salute--to Adolph!!

 

[CL82]

The irony of calling someone a dumb a** in a meme with a glaring typo.

 

[BroadwayVa]

Perhaps she does. It still doesn't make it any less punitive. Might be more to it than what we've heard, there usually is, but to change the course of a young woman's life over a gesture?

You could ask the same question of the YOUNG WOMANS gesture--and to a camera and thousands of people/fans.
A GROWN Woman should know better and think better. In life, as is being taught here, there are acts---and there are
consequences--you make the choice.

 

[noirwestern]

But does this scandal happen on live TV?? or recorded TV or any TV?? Prolly not...

Not that being filmed should make one damn bit of difference, but

You could ask the same question of the YOUNG WOMANS gesture--and to a camera and thousands of people/fans.
A GROWN Woman should know better and think better. In life, as is being taught here, there are acts---and there are
consequences--you make the choice.

Erm, still doesn't address the issue of fairness. How is what she's doing in any way more severe than say, this?

 

[BroadwayVa]

The double standard here is ridiculous. A suspension, sitting out some games, etc, would have been appropriate. Pulling her scholarship? That's insane. Unless there is more to the story, but from everything I've read it doesn't appear there is. Pick a school, any school, look at their football team, and I can almost guarantee there is a scandal much, much worse than this that resulted in...nothing.

Your choice of words---"there is a scandal much much worse that this"---seems to indicate you think this significant enough to label it a scandal---rather than a stupid (unthinking of consequences) act. May be the reaction of the Administration is Why Uconn has fewer--SCANDALS??

 

[BroadwayVa]

Not that being filmed should make one damn bit of difference, but

Erm, still doesn't address the issue of fairness. How is what she's doing in any way more severe than say, this?
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FAIRNESS IS LIKE PERFECTION SOMETHING TO BE STRIVEN FOR
Learn now---Life is not now or has it ever really been fair.
Even moma and DaDa are not always fair--because Fairness is often in the eyes of the person complaining!
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[BroadwayVa]

Or maybe it's Hawaiian for good luck? View attachment 17800

Did she get locked up taken prisoner like the crew of the pueblo?> Really long stretch to compare POW's to a Soccer player!!!
When bullets were flying at them ---they knew it wasn't a soccer game!!

 

[BroadwayVa]

I'm too lazy to dredge through the muck to find dozens, maybe many, many dozens of examples of male players behaving at least as foolishly if not far worse who got a few games suspensions. Or less. Without a list of write ups on her prior to this incident having the scholarship yanked does seem harsh.

Search ONLY UCONN players or Uconn Soccer players--because they are the only ones that apply. Uconn Admin is only responsible for THEIR actions --other schools have other standards.

Now if you want to argue the Dr Phil argument---She is between 18 and 30 and as such her brain is not fully developed--and is not responsible for her own actions! Normally that is the argument I use in situations like this. It was stupid, in the wrong place at the wrong time---the rest is between her and UConn Admin.
But life is UNFAIR!! When that is fully accepted you are mature. (I haven't matured yet).