It's becoming an avalanche in Higher Education.... now Truett McConnell University has severed its ties with Nike over ads

“If the company really has animus toward police officers, or if they’re intentionally disrespecting our flag, our veterans, our national anthem, as part of some mission of the company and using their resources to do it, then why deal with them when there are plenty of other good athletic companies out there,” Jerry Falwell Jr., university president, told the News and Advance. “On the other hand, if they are just trying to make money off the attention that former quarterback Colin Kaepernick has been receiving then we understand that that’s just marketing and we’ll probably overlook it.”

https://www.newsadvance.com/news/local/liberty-university-considering-dropping-nike-contract-due-to-kaepernick-marketing/article_748c903c-b2d1-11e8-a168-3f71cafa9a05.html

Just because they have university in the name does not make them one.

It's nothing more than 13th grade.

??? Those comments are just head scratchers. It has zero to do with the military. Animus toward police brutality, the hundreds of police killings that go on in this country alone year after year, that's the point of kneeling. Kneeling is exactly what religious authorities are always asking their members to do, a very respectful, submissive pose. But if it were marketing, that would be fine?

2:18 wrote:

Just because they have university in the name does not make them one.

It's nothing more than 13th grade.

2 is an avalanche?

I’ve never heard of this school. Their justification doesn’t even make sense.

A bit dramatic eh? wrote:

2 is an avalanche?

2 *schools no one has ever heard of is an avalanche?

Jim Carr, NAIA President and CEO, issued a statement that read in part: “Truett-McConnell shares a dual commitment to academic and athletic excellence defined by the NAIA’s strategic plan…committed to high standards and to the principle that participation in athletics serves as an integral part of the total education process. The NAIA looks forward to working with [Truett-McConnell] to advance character-driven intercollegiate athletics.”

"Higher Education" is being overly generous in describing these 2 institutions.

If this were any other topic the mods would never this with 10 other threads and change the title to: "Two aspiring colleges oppose Nike. Seminary undecided."

Nike’s bigger problem is that they have any business relationship with liberty. Liberty is a predatory institution. They put traditional and online students in great debt and provide them useless degrees. Nike should really look at dumping these schools that prey on students.

Liberty U could be next wrote:

First it was only College of the Ozarks. But not anymore.....

Truett McConnell University said in a statement Friday that they will no longer purchase or carry athletic apparel by Nike, “an athletic company that uses someone to market their products who ‘mocks our troops.’”

“If Nike chooses to apologize to our troops and to our law enforcement officers, then — and only then — will TMU reconsider their brand,” Emir Caner, university president, said in a press release.

Liberty University is considering dropping the brand, but will decide after university officials have had a conversation with Nike about contract termination clauses and “what they’re trying to accomplish” through the kneeler campaign, the News and Advance reported.

https://truett.edu/news/archive/truett-mcconnell-university-drops-nike-apparel-in-protest-over-kaepernick-ad/https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/09/10/another-college-cuts-ties-nike

NIKE goes home DEVASTATED!!! When a piliar of higher education like TMU throws its weight around like this you know it’s the beginning of the end for Nike. Other heavy weight like Devry, ITT tech, Southern New Hampshire, and—yes—even Trump University are likely to follow. If you have stock in Nike you should probably sell now.....so I can buy it.

some fantasy wrote:

"Higher Education" is being overly generous in describing these 2 institutions.

Yes, the title was indeed a quite well-constructed troll job.

What avalanche missus?

Republican hysteria...gotta love it.

And, again, with changing the narrative.

Right-wing Evangelical Christian Colleges toe the Republican party line. And that's news? When will Bob Jones University make the move?

Calling such schools "Higher Education" is a mockery.

Why is Nike even sponsoring universities that no one has ever heard of? Like, seriously, I didn’t even know that College of the Ozarks and Truett McConnell existed before reading these threads on letsrun.

Do some research. Southern New Hampshire wears adidas.

Wake me up when Oregon cuts ties.

Truett McConnell University? Higher Education? A stretch at best.

So, if this is an accurate quote - “an athletic company that uses someone to market their products who ‘mocks our troops”, then they have no understanding of what CK was doing.

No mocking of troops there. A simple protest about race inequality and police brutality in America.

Pretty much just like a Christian college to say something like that.