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You don't pay the director of a university's drama department millions of dollars per year. Successful football and basketball coaches get paid those kind of su

by tuna74 1y ago

You don't pay the director of a university's drama department millions of dollars per year. Successful football and basketball coaches get paid those kind of sums.

slg 1y ago
What specifically is the problem with that? Do you think a "director of a university's drama department" brings the same value to a university as "Successful football and basketball coaches"?
- Uvix 1y ago
  No, I think the director of the drama department brings more value.
  - slg 1y ago
    And is this opinion supported by anything beyond a distaste for sports? Because it is objectively wrong at the extremes.[1] [1] - https://www.al.com/news/2024/01/what-economic-impact-has-nick-saban-had-on-alabama-he-was-worth-more-than-1-billion.html https://www.al.com/news/2024/01/what-economic-impact-has-nic...
    - nradov 1y ago
      There seems to be a large segment of HN users with an irrational distaste for sports. I suspect it's because they lacked the work ethic and pain tolerance to ever become good at any sport. So they denigrate sports in general as a mental coping mechanism.
    - lordnacho 1y ago
      Mainstream economics operates with a subjective idea of value. The previous poster can think whatever he wants about the drama vs sports, there's no objective right or wrong. What does exist is an outcome about who gets paid.
  - Zigurd 1y ago
    CMU for example, is known for the school of computer science, and the arts, especially drama, though some people might know it better for Andy Warhol having been an alum. That's how an elite university should operate. Sport is fine. It's healthy. But warping the educational mission to feed the maw of an exploitative sports economy is something no university should be involved in. What next? MMA as a college sport? It's a free country: beat each other's brains out. But to pretend that US college sports is anything but a grotesque distortion is disingenuous.

by tuna74 1y ago

You don't pay the director of a university's drama department millions of dollars per year. Successful football and basketball coaches get paid those kind of sums.

slg 1y ago

What specifically is the problem with that? Do you think a "director of a university's drama department" brings the same value to a university as "Successful football and basketball coaches"?

Uvix 1y ago
No, I think the director of the drama department brings more value.
- slg 1y ago
  And is this opinion supported by anything beyond a distaste for sports? Because it is objectively wrong at the extremes.[1] [1] - https://www.al.com/news/2024/01/what-economic-impact-has-nick-saban-had-on-alabama-he-was-worth-more-than-1-billion.html https://www.al.com/news/2024/01/what-economic-impact-has-nic...
  - nradov 1y ago
    There seems to be a large segment of HN users with an irrational distaste for sports. I suspect it's because they lacked the work ethic and pain tolerance to ever become good at any sport. So they denigrate sports in general as a mental coping mechanism.
  - lordnacho 1y ago
    Mainstream economics operates with a subjective idea of value. The previous poster can think whatever he wants about the drama vs sports, there's no objective right or wrong. What does exist is an outcome about who gets paid.
- Zigurd 1y ago
  CMU for example, is known for the school of computer science, and the arts, especially drama, though some people might know it better for Andy Warhol having been an alum. That's how an elite university should operate. Sport is fine. It's healthy. But warping the educational mission to feed the maw of an exploitative sports economy is something no university should be involved in. What next? MMA as a college sport? It's a free country: beat each other's brains out. But to pretend that US college sports is anything but a grotesque distortion is disingenuous.