Seriously, no one becomes tenured at a university by teaching a lot of classes. Not only is that not the "track" to become tenured (the way to do that is to get

Seriously, no one becomes tenured at a university by teaching a lot of classes. Not only is that not the "track" to become tenured (the way to do that is to get a tenure-track gig, see how that works?), it will likely detract from your chances because: 1. the longer you do it the more tarnished you'll become; 2. the more you rack up teaching gig after teaching gig, the harder it is to establish a research record, for various reasons: if you're adjuncting, it takes tons of time; if you aren't (if you have lots of visiting assistant professorships, for instance) you still potentially have to deal with annual moves, lots of class prep (you won't have much say over what you teach so you won't necessarily get to repeat classes), and less institutional support than your tenure-track colleagues. I sincerely hope none of the people who were blogged about actually harbors the hope attributed to them, because if they do they were badly misinformed.