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Tebow, religion, and eyeblack

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I understand your point, Grace. My position is that any such ban should be complete and total and only cover the athletes when they are on the field representing the entire university. If Tebow wants to wear a John 3:16 t-shirt to class, I don't have a single problem with it. If he wants to wear one at a personal interview that he has set up, again no issue.

My discussion regarding any ban on personal statements only goes as far as that period where the athlete is representing the university community at an official university event.

One minor point of clarification concerning the following:

Legislation to ban speech based on the potential victimization of hypothetical offendees offers little gain and as others have stated chips away at te virtues of individual liberty.
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I'm not in favor of having any government authority get involved in this. This should be a matter of team, athletic department or university policy. Universities have plenty of rules regarding student conduct and behavior that are perfectly justified but in now way rise to the level of issues requiring public policy legislation to be enacted. Should some Christian legal advocacy group want to take the university to court over such a ban on constitutional grounds, I'm fine with that and would respect the resulting court decisions.
 
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I think the main difference is like ORD said, the rule hasn't been created by certain coaches or Universities. But that is because we live in a world that normally doesn't act but react. TP, Jon Kitna, etc did things that forced the hands of JT and the NFL. It normally doesn't work the other way. We normally don't see a pre emptive move in the majority of cases. It may stink for some but the majority runs the show and without someone stirring the waters to the point of action, it will stay the same.
 
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A propsed rule change will require all eyeblack to be nothing but solid eyeblack.

SI.com

NCAA proposes tough taunting, concussion rules

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Other topics discussed at the meeting include:​

- Television monitors will be allowed in the press box coaches' booths beginning in 2011. The home team has responsibility for insuring that coaches' booths for both teams have identical television capability.​

- Requiring players who wear "eye black" to use solid black with no words, logos, numbers or other symbols. That will be effective next season.​


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I fully understand the "no taunting" rule. Good for college football.
The eye black issue is ridiculous.
I don't have a problem with Tebow and his beliefs.
I do have a problem with Focus on the Family's extremist views and agenda .
 
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