… and – look out – he’s at it again, stirring up hornets in Huntington. A local Marshall University basketball booster is outraged that Brozik, a professor there, made a student attend class.
Brozik … wouldn’t give Yous Mbao, a 7-foot-2 senior center on MU’s basketball team, an excused absence to play in the Herd’s 119-77 win over Rio Grande at the Henderson Center.
Had Mbao played, the win might have been 199-77!
[I]nformed sources say Brozik allegedly told Mbao his grade would be dropped two letters if he weren’t in attendance for a group presentation that Tuesday evening.
… What an injustice.
… If his name sounds familiar it’s because Brozik is the same professor that was outspoken in his criticism of Marshall’s financial support of the school’s athletic department. His rhetoric created a controversy and notable media attention.
The unfortunate part is when a few dissidents, such as Brozik, achieve notoriety while the silent majority of Marshall’s faculty is supportive of MU’s athletics.
The faculty at-large deserves better.
It’s also unfortunate that Marshall’s athletic department didn’t stand up to Brozik in Mbao’s behalf. It should have. It’s time to stop the nonsense.
(Yeah, ol’ Dallas outspoke for sure on Marshall University’s sports-fucked finances and general mental debility. We covered this notorious dissidence here.)
Marshall professors deserve to be at a university where coaches tell them when students can and cannot attend class. Why then do they not rise up as one and break their silence? Why should they get the short end of the stick, when professors at plenty of other schools have the right to plead with coaches for permission to have athletes attend class?
The athletics department itself fell down on this one, passively allowing a professor to apply attendance policies to athletes.
The article is clearly a call to arms. Expect professors and coaches to rally at Marshall’s central quad on behalf of their rights.
November 19th, 2013 at 3:14PM
Someone in Marshall’s legion of brain coaches screwed up here. That student ought not to have been enrolled in a class meeting in the evening, as that involves too many conflicts with road games and practices. Scholarship athletes generally get priority registration so as to avoid such conflicts.
November 19th, 2013 at 3:37PM
SK, well and clearly signing up for this guy’s class should have been a red-flag, head’s will roll I’m sure..
November 19th, 2013 at 5:07PM
At my university any student participating in any sanctioned university activity is granted an excused absence for a performance or game. We probably ought to figure out what Marshall’s policy is before engaging in the customary sanctimony. But yeah, the booster seems like a dick.