UAlbany Has Canceled Its Opener Against Duke University Because Of North Carolina’s Anti-LGBT Law
The first major domino has fallen because of North Carolina’s House Bill 2, a controversial anti-LGBT law that is tearing the Tar Heel state apart. Its victim? None other than SUNY Albany’s men’s basketball team, who was supposed to open the season at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C. against Duke.
This is all because New York governor Andrew Cuomo tried to score some style points when this law was in the national spotlight by signing an executive order banning all non-essential publicly-funded travel to North Carolina to protect its citizens. Oh, okay. You showed them.
From The Albany Times-Union:
SUNY spokeswoman Holly Liapis issued the following statement, which was emailed to the Times Union by Karl Luntta, the director of media relations for UAlbany
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“The State University of New York supports Governor Cuomo’s executive order banning all non-essential travel to the state of North Carolina, and we instructed our campuses to immediately review any existing travel plans by faculty and staff. SUNY and its campuses continue to support the Governor on taking this stand.”UAlbany athletic director Mark Benson, when reached late Wednesday afternoon, would only say that UAlbany supported Cuomo’s position.
The SUNY gag order was also put on UAlbany coach Will Brown, who responded to a text message while recruiting in Atlanta on Wednesday.
When asked, via text, if he would comment on losing the Duke game, Brown texted back.
“It’s hot in Atlanta, but not sure you care about that,” Brown wrote.
So there goes a once-in-a-lifetime chance for a bunch of basketball scrubs to play a game in Cameron Indoor Stadium. But hey, playing at Binghamton is fun too, I guess.
And it’s not like Duke University is running around promoting HB2, either. In fact, as a North Carolina native, I can confidently say that the Duke University campus is the least North Carolina place in all of North Carolina. It’s the University of New Jersey/New York at Durham. The state of North Carolina has absolutely zero influence there.
You’re not hurting Duke basketball by doing this. Duke couldn’t give a shit about playing UAlbany. It’s a warm-up game — a sort-of Make-a-Wish moment for a bunch of shitty basketball players to play with the big guys. This move really has no negative effect on anybody except the student-athletes at UAlbany.
So where will the uncorrupted souls of UAlbany travel to play instead of Duke? Penn State. Nice..
[via The Albany Times-Union]
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Because Duke had so much to do with the decision
10 years ago at 5:25 pmExactly. That’s like when those idiots burst into the college library screaming, “Black lives matter!” None of those kids studying had anything to do with police shootings.
10 years ago at 3:33 pmLeave beating the point into them for Syracuse, smart move albany.
10 years ago at 5:25 pmNot to mention boycotting a private university for a state governments action is fuckin just brilliant, makes a lot of sense.
10 years ago at 5:26 pmThe program was probably looking for a way to get out of a fifty-point dismantling. I guess SJW legislation is as good an excuse as any.
10 years ago at 5:34 pmThis has to be a pain in the ass.
10 years ago at 5:55 pmI’m from NC and I can say we honestly don’t give a fuck what the rest of the country thinks about the bill. Don’t agree with it don’t come to our state.
10 years ago at 5:59 pmI just hate the hypocrisy of the issue. A municipal gov’t made a choice and the state gov’t interjected itself and the Dems screamed “gov’t overreach” then the federal gov’t interjected itself and the GOP screamed “gov’t overreach.” And I’m just sitting here thinking “fuck gov’t.”
10 years ago at 7:10 pmI agree with that, but Charlotte wanted to enforce that bathrooms on public and private properties had to allow trannies to choose which one they wanted to use. Personally I don’t give a fuck if they want to use one of the other, but I don’t think a government body should tell a private business owner that they have to allow trannies to use what the want if the owner disagrees with it.
Currently private businesses can choose what they want to do. Leave it like that for fucks sake.
10 years ago at 7:32 pmAnd being a, most likely, white male you never have to worry about getting discriminated by a private business owner. Everybody has the right to an opinion but that doesn’t change the rights of others, no matter your opinion of them
10 years ago at 8:28 pmHey buddy, let me know when you work hard and own a business of your own then maybe I’ll give a shit about you and your race baiting opinions. Until then eat shit you troglodyte.
10 years ago at 8:51 pm“It doesn’t matter that I can’t relate, I know all!”
10 years ago at 9:36 pmIf a store doesn’t like you, don’t give them business. Most likely the place will go out of business for being discriminatory on its own.
10 years ago at 9:53 pmYou condescending lefties think you’re all so damn smart. You are the one who cannot relate. You cannot relate to the business owners because you are a whiny loser who will never own anything worthwhile
10 years ago at 11:35 pmWho do you know here?
10 years ago at 12:23 pm
10 years ago at 9:22 amThe Daly Times (Daily? You dumbfuck) is literally the worst type of person.
10 years ago at 9:34 amI don’t think that is the right interpretation. The issue wasn’t the state government overriding the municipal government so much as it was the municipal government infringing on the rights of private businesses and the state government restoring freedom of choice. I don’t think Federal government intervention is what bothers North Carolinians, as much as the threat of having their freedom infringed upon if that makes sense.
10 years ago at 8:24 amThats what I was trying to convey. You made it clearer than I did.
10 years ago at 8:50 amPunishing it’s students to make a moot point. Another inept collegiate administration at play. They could probably cover their entire athletic department budget by losing to Duke by 30.
10 years ago at 6:10 pmStudent associations probably pressured them into this. Aka geeds.
10 years ago at 6:40 pmUAlbany stood out as the most disgusting school I visited during the college process. It looks like a prison, which makes it students feel right at home, fucking losers.
10 years ago at 6:33 pmTo be fair it is in Albany, which is a fucking awful city. Actually now that I think about it, pretty much all the cities in upstate NY suck.
10 years ago at 6:41 pmIt’s exactly what you’d expect from a school ran by the state of New York. Upstate would be as embarrassing as Staten Island, if anyone actually went there.
10 years ago at 6:46 pmAs someone who’s from New York, there’s a reason why pretty much everyone there goes to school out of state. The SUNY schools are improving (Binghamton and Stony Brook are actually pretty good), but they’re still not that great, even if they are super cheap.
10 years ago at 8:03 pmWell being from westchester, Suny was definitely not an option. Binghamton and Geneseo are great schools. unfortunately I feel like it will get worse before it gets better with Cuomo in office.
10 years ago at 8:44 pmyou sound like spoiled cunts
10 years ago at 5:24 amRandy, aren’t you from Nova Scotia?
10 years ago at 9:30 pmThis is unrelated, but why was the picture of Sager deleted?
10 years ago at 10:08 pmComing from a rival school, fuck Albany
10 years ago at 11:37 pmGreat idea because I bet Duke was probably only going to pay them somewhere around $100k to play the game…but Andy is always right….
10 years ago at 10:33 am