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2020-04-20 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
If colleges cut sports programs, could new models emerge?
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-20 06:28|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ]  Top

#1 New models? No, it is doubtful that will occur.

The raison d'être of 'higher education' shifted many years ago. Along with the shift came the dumbing-down of standards. Causation needs no explanation here. A few exceptions do still exist.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-20 06:44||   2020-04-20 06:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Football is a profit center for the best teams and will remain at UA, tOSU, ND etc
Posted by Lex 2020-04-20 06:48||   2020-04-20 06:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Yes, Geology 101 (Rocks for Jocks) is here to stay.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-20 06:53||   2020-04-20 06:53|| Front Page Top

#4 "My job is to ensure parking for the faculty, sex for the students, and football for the alumni"
- Clark Kerr, then-president of UC-Berkeley
Posted by Lex 2020-04-20 06:57||   2020-04-20 06:57|| Front Page Top

#5 And if you end mandatory indoctrination classes for departments that would draw near zero elective attendance, you probably could save even more money (especially from law suits from academic culturally prosecuted student victims of those you credentialed and then employed cause they can't get jobs on that paper anyway).
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-20 07:07||   2020-04-20 07:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Strange, very strange. It took a deadly pandemic to expose a deadly pandemic.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-20 07:09||   2020-04-20 07:09|| Front Page Top

#7 End the taxpayer's subsidy and all sorts of beneficial things will occur.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-04-20 07:23||   2020-04-20 07:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Not to mention inflated tuitions thanks to guaranteed student loans.
Posted by Clem 2020-04-20 07:42||   2020-04-20 07:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Every campus has one...

Turning a Tennis Stadium Into a Hospital, and Thinking About What Sports Can Do Now
Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-20 09:46||   2020-04-20 09:46|| Front Page Top

#10 Probably been looking for a reason for a while; them's dollars for pensions.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-20 10:39||   2020-04-20 10:39|| Front Page Top

#11 #2 What Lex said. There's a lot of money in big time university sport's programs.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-04-20 11:01||   2020-04-20 11:01|| Front Page Top

#12 It's disgusting. My old university used eminent domain to scarf up property (and a family friend's business) to build a sport complex years ago. It is now pretty much a white elephant. Pathetic.

Even more pathetic is when they would send their alumni requests for money. I was so angry I called them and told them to take me off of their mailing list forever.
Posted by Clem 2020-04-20 11:27||   2020-04-20 11:27|| Front Page Top

#13 A university can use Eminent domain?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-20 11:32||   2020-04-20 11:32|| Front Page Top

#14 State university. Whatever the f it was, trust me, they did it.
Posted by Clem 2020-04-20 11:34||   2020-04-20 11:34|| Front Page Top

#15 Grom makes a hand washing hand gesture.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-20 11:38||   2020-04-20 11:38|| Front Page Top

#16 It;s a little, a lot, more nuanced than the sports programs being vampires.

Originally the Athletic Departments were told that they had to be self funded. Then the television money started pouring in and the major college administrators developed a massive desire to share the wealth™. Much of the Amateur facilities, such as free volleyball, tennis and other facilities for the normal everyday students is paid for largely from this revenue stream.

Is it corrupt? Are these *cough* student athletes *cough* largely mercenaries and not students? Yet it is what it is --- some good and some bad.
Posted by magpie 2020-04-20 12:31||   2020-04-20 12:31|| Front Page Top

#17 A university can use Eminent domain?

Does a governor want those votes and that sweet alumni donation?

Some years back, University of Kansas approached then Governor Sebelius requestion some $10million for 'bathroom renovations' some 8 bathrooms. Next year, the football stadium had new lights. KU football makes its attendance by how many of the visiting team's fans show up.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-20 13:34||   2020-04-20 13:34|| Front Page Top

#18 could new models emerge?

No the VS angels are shut down.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-04-20 20:15||   2020-04-20 20:15|| Front Page Top

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