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Since when it has become acceptable that the goal of academic institute is/should be dirty ROI? And then why just football? Start funding cabaret, rave parties
by tmptmp 10y ago
Since when it has become acceptable that the goal of academic institute is/should be dirty ROI?
And then why just football? Start funding cabaret, rave parties and poll-dance events as they surely will have more ROI.
Sports has been the undoing of US education in schools [1] earlier and now it seems even in higher ed.
The sooner they get rid of sports from educational institutes the better for them.
[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/10/the-case-against-high-school-sports/309447/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/10/the-case...
- niels_olson 10y agoI was on staff at a small science and engineering school with a top 25 football team, and I was the faculty rep for the cycling team. I had no love for football, and I say that as someone who played in highschool. Until I saw the finances and realized they funded the entire sports program. As much as it pained me, I had a hard time complaining after that.
- gohrt 10y agoHigh school is not the same as college. Also, The Atlantic is not a reliable source. It prints garbage like this: "Football at Premont cost about $1,300 a player. Math, by contrast, cost just $618 a student." even though everyone at the school takes math, very few play football, and not everyone involved in football is a player.
- tmptmp 10y ago>>Also, The Atlantic is not a reliable source. It prints garbage like this: Atlantic may or may not be a reliable source. What about this? A coach is given a whooping $7,004,000 salary. Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh is in his first year with the Wolverines and sits behind Saban with a $7,004,000 total pay. [1] [1] http://www.si.com/college-football/2015/10/08/highest-paid-college-football-coaches-salaries-list-nick-saban-jim-harbaugh http://www.si.com/college-football/2015/10/08/highest-paid-c...