Ed Reed
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.Ed Reed spoke his peace. I guess if he wanted a job that bad he shouldāve waited until the contract had the dried ink on it. I donāt think what he said was wrong. I also think that these colleges and universities that were set up for a historically needed reason, and still exist, albeit under different circumstances, have a role in society today. But the underfunding of them from the communities from the government from alumni from those who espouse the ideals that these schools were set up for is very sad. I remember growing up, always hearing the phrase put your money where your mouth is. Thereās a lot of people who just like to run their mouth, but they donāt back it up with actions including dollars. best of success to Ed Reed, wherever he goes next. Hopefully this university can find a coach who is willing to put up with what the school has created.
Best not to have tape on these pure raw emotions. Not sure he isnāt spitting 100% truth but the method hurts more than helps.
My guess...attention is one thing but they did not want that type of attention knowing that it would, in the end, do nothing to bring them more revenue.
I agree and if you are the admins...there is no way you see that and go "Oh, that was awesome of him"
Wow. If this follow-up story is true, Bethune Cookman really shot themselves in the foot. If this story is true, I am guessing a dozen other HBCU will be contacting Ed Reed real fast. Dude uses bad language a lot and seems to really hate the blood sucking powers that be. He also seems to really have the players best interests at heart. It might be interesting to see where this goes.
I loved Ed Reed, the player, for years. But, this really is proof of why BAL and HOU ultimately let him go. Lost his damn mind. What a shame.
They want their guy running it right is my guess. Perhaps they think the exact way Reed thinks. Politically speaking, maybe they don't like the swamp attitude he was talking about in his trash video. They collect money with no interest at all in ever improving the place. In the capitalist world, that is a losing business. Keep throwing money at the kind of biz that keeps losing money. They probably were smart enough to not just throw money at a sinking ship.
*actually this story and Deion telling the exact story about Jackson State is a perfect metaphor for every left run city. They are all the same story. Over and over. Collect tax money with ZERO interest in ever improving the place. Reed and Deion both literally told the exact same story. Eddie George joined in and mentioned how Tennessee used those buildings for training camp and nothing had changed. Disgusting conditions that never improve.
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Letās just hope trev and Rhule are trump supporters so we donāt deal with those messes amirght?
Glad to see that now former coach Reid was not just running his mouth, but putting in the legwork to find some people who would help the institution. I do hope that there are other schools that will contact coach and if nothing else, maybe some of those investors will work with those other schools, no matter if he becomes their football head coach or not. The better the education, usually means the less of the indoctrination of making education worse and therefore those young men and young women and our society as a whole.
Same type of thing going on in Bolder with the coaching grandstanding starting right after the coach says, āOK, you filming this? Iāll startā¦ā
Dont really feel strongly about HBCUs either way, butā¦
If a white man/institution said āsometimes people want to be around their ownā to justify excluding black members to be around āmy peopleā, it would not be racist either, correct?
Or is this another one of those double standard situations weāre all supposed to just accept or else weāre somehow horrible people?
Probably except white people are more than welcome to apply and enroll in HBCU's if they want. Nothing exclusionary there. I think many look at HBCUs as a more welcoming option to PWI's.
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I'm gonna call bullsh*t on this story. The idea of "billionaire investors" is being floated out there, but I'm gonna say it's more likely a few millionaires making promises that they weren't going to keep. Just a couple "has been" pro athletes exaggerating their own importance and influence.
And as for Ed Reed getting fired before he was really hired, he had it coming. Not a lot of employers out there who are going to like getting trashed on social media by a new hire before the contract has even been offered. Ed Reed has no common sense. And he looks like a hobo.
Didnāt he heave his desk phone and it actually hit a reporter or something?
Good timesā¦
Wait...are they protesting about the conditions of a place that they applied to, got accepted to and then picked to attend?
That is ballsy! Haha.
I am gonna go protest my car payment.
With that said...those admins have clearly been abusing the money they get for years now.