Suzy Favor Hamilton name dropped from Big 10 award

Why is it not fair to the recipient? Reason.

Baby man wrote:

Why is it not fair to the recipient? Reason.

Why would it be acceptable to the recipient? Reason.

Baby man wrote:

Why is it not fair to the recipient? Reason.

And as I said before, read the post by Confused Briton. No where in that post does he say it's not fair to the recipient.

Ok.. I read the quote that was in your post, and now read Confused Briton..

Now no one assumes her escort services was healthy, perhaps for the Johns, but all kidding aside,no one should presume her doing what she did was that bad as to relinquish her name from current standing. No one was hurt, outside her family and no one was cheated. There is too much concern over the role a former prostitute has in society that one needs to reflect on why this is such a travesty.

If she suddenly became a Nobel prize winner, this issue would never have taken her name from this award. Hypocrites and judgmental types like to create a travesty out of nothing. It seems to me her mistake in the scheme of human integrity and morality is a drip of water. Don't let that drip blind good reason.

Suzie had her name there for a reason and that reason still exists. You moralists need to wake up to the fact that people are inherently flawed and hers wasn't that horrible. If we probe further, perhaps those decision makers need to examine their own warts.

Someone I here actually compared Suzy to Hitler? You guys are a stitch, I swear.

I doubt OJ HAS his Heisman, he sold it( I think) and tried to get it back and is now in jail for that, which is almost hysterical, they could not wait until he did something, now they got him

He does have it still on record and could maybe do video show ups at the NY ceremony every year, I guess? LOL

It is an award for the best college female athlete in the Big Ten. You can't possibly think that any UNIVERSITY would want to give an award to the top female athlete that is associate with Suzy. Come on think before you keep this up.I am sure the decision took about 5 seconds to make.

I am not a moralists and could care less of what she did but what she did is illegal and downright dangerous.Even if you don't think it should be illegal doesn't matter.Bottom line it is still illegal. Once she cross this line the Universities can not ignore this by handing out awards in her name. Got it. It should not take 4 pages for you to realize this was not a hard decision to make.

No problem with the Big Ten taking her name of the award, maybe the decision should been made sooner. I don't like horseshit comparsions to murderers and Hitler.

meant to say "her name off" of the award

So the reason you use is that it was illegal. Would any illegal act she did change this name removal, or is it this act? Say she got arrested for possession of pot or say she got reckless driving for going 90 miles an hour,would these be reasons? Where does one draw the line? Perfection is an impossible thing and one should never be burdened with this expectation. An individuals prostitution is in my opinion not a reason to pan them and remove there name from an honored position. That said, I understand your and others sensibilities may be offended by nature of our collective cultural programing and I respect you have a different point of view, but it is one I do not share.

Fred Gwynne wrote:

It is an award for the best college female athlete in the Big Ten. You can't possibly think that any UNIVERSITY would want to give an award to the top female athlete that is associate with Suzy. Come on think before you keep this up.I am sure the decision took about 5 seconds to make.

I am not a moralists and could care less of what she did but what she did is illegal and downright dangerous.Even if you don't think it should be illegal doesn't matter.Bottom line it is still illegal. Once she cross this line the Universities can not ignore this by handing out awards in her name. Got it. It should not take 4 pages for you to realize this was not a hard decision to make.

Well said.

It would be interesting to take the personal history of the decision makers and take a look at their moral compass. I like Larry Flynt's approach to offering a cash reward to anyone that could offer up info on so called informers in the political circles of hypocrites. It funny how these many of the whistle blowers quieted down with the opportunity that their "perfect" backgrounds could be made public.

Suzy has been on the billboards, in the newspapers, on on every other commercial advertising for the Women’s Life and Fitness Speaker. They did a bio on the news describing her life and how her issues were due to bad meds after a misdiagnosis. Lefties really just like people who lived a worse life than them. Why not get somebody to speak who has lived a clean moral and healthy life? This event is for women and girls. My wife is disgusted by her and I told my daughter about her due to all of the publicity. She is supposed to be the role model for all of the people who will attend.

You bumped a 6 year old thread for that drivel?

You and your wife are full of sh1t.

Who says she's supposed to be a role model for all the people attending? Are you familiar with what "object lesson" means?

And yeah, why revive a six-year-old thread? And why invoke "Lefties?"

Santa is coming to town wrote:

Suzy has been on the billboards, in the newspapers, on on every other commercial advertising for the Women’s Life and Fitness Speaker. They did a bio on the news describing her life and how her issues were due to bad meds after a misdiagnosis. Lefties really just like people who lived a worse life than them. Why not get somebody to speak who has lived a clean moral and healthy life? This event is for women and girls. My wife is disgusted by her and I told my daughter about her due to all of the publicity. She is supposed to be the role model for all of the people who will attend.

You and your wife are awful parents . you're daughter will grow up with many problems , and it is your wife fault.

The WHLF is the only event of its kind in the Quad Cities that focuses entirely on Women's daily health and lifestyle choices and all aspects of daily living, including fashion, fitness, home decorating, health and wellness, financial, food and cooking, entertainment, spiritual and much more.

If the focus is on Women's health and lifestyle choices, Suzy seems to be the furthest thing from those goals.

The thread was to emphasize how a few years ago, she was seen as a bad person so they removed her name from the award. Time passes and she is able to spin it into being some type of a victim which put her in a position to publish a book and get herself back in the limelight. sort of like Smollett being a victim or Michael Jackson being a victim.

Funny, I hear she dropped onto a few big 10's in her time.

Santa is coming to town wrote:

Suzy has been on the billboards, in the newspapers, on on every other commercial advertising for the Women’s Life and Fitness Speaker. They did a bio on the news describing her life and how her issues were due to bad meds after a misdiagnosis. Lefties really just like people who lived a worse life than them. Why not get somebody to speak who has lived a clean moral and healthy life? This event is for women and girls. My wife is disgusted by her and I told my daughter about her due to all of the publicity. She is supposed to be the role model for all of the people who will attend.

"Lefties"?. The idea that "Righties" have some moral superiority is laughable. The first problem of "Righties" is constant judgement of others and demanding that they live up to some moral code that is non existent or easily brushed aside when their side is guilty of some moral debauchery. This is followed by trying to legislate these pseudo moral beliefs while simultaneously being outraged that "Lefties" want to legislate things like LGBT rights.

Here is an idea: Let this group decide who will speak at their convention. If it is unpopular, people won't show up and pay the entry fee. Doesn't this fit the "Rightie" Free Market ideal pretty well? Or is the Free Market is only OK when it works in your favor?