Posted on 08/12/2020 6:30:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Nebraska, Clemson, FSU and Miami to the SEC? Makes a lot of sense from a football perspective. Some dominoes are about to fall. I don’t think the blue state schools have wargamed this out. Could be the NCAA loses college football and a new organization is formed to govern it.
COVID panic is the new Puritanism where we must stay locked in our basements fearing the almighty wrath of the virus and are prohibited from any enjoyment.
The ACC is wobbly. Like the Big 10 they have a number of schools in states controlled by Lockdown Nazis (Pitt, Virginia, VA Tech, NC State, etc.)
Isn't the purpose college or university supposed to to be to get an education? Granted, many fail at even that purpose.
Most people are talking about the revenue from sports, but I think there will be a shift in enrollment. There are people who think sports are part of the college “experience” and if the teams aren’t there at the flagship, why go?
In many of these states, the smaller campuses that are closer to home will pick up some enrollment and the flagship with the big time football time will lose some. If a student has all classes on-line and it’s recommended they do not live in the dorm and can’t go to parties/games, why not take the classes from the school whose library they can at least get to within 30 minutes from home?
I can’t disagree with your post, but why visit a library at all when you have the internet and university resources at your fingertips?
That is the purpose, actually most student athletes get their degree....
We only pay attention to the major sports like football and basketball and many of those athletes don’t but a ton of other sports have athletes that do graduate and they depend on football to survive...
***He said that only three colleges in the country make a profit on their sports programs.***
Which three? I know I should be able to guess.
If it damages blue state megaversities such as Rutgers it is a good day.
I don’t think they are worried about their players getting CoVid19 and dying.
We're going to see nothing but pro-BLM/pro-Antifa anti-Americanism kneeling and displaying by the college football teams, just like the NFL.
Let it all burn to the ground.
“Speaking of financial Armageddon, anyone have word on the status of the Oberlin/bakery lawsuit?”
Here is a link to the latest developments:
https://legalinsurrection.com/?s=oberlin&image.x=13&image.y=8
I think it was Alabama and Ohio State. I forget whether the third was Michigan or one of the other SEC schools. Like others have said, college accounting is as crooked as Hollywood accounting, so I wouldn't trust anything without an outside audit.
And, like I said, it was in a college class on college administration so it may have come from a grievance-studies department report being angry about not having enough money to hire more angry professors with grievances.
The other conferences will face the issue of BLM signs, kneeling athletes, and disrespect for the U.S. flag, which will alienate many of their fans, especially in the red states where the SEC, Big 12, and ACC operate. They may suffer the sort of discontent and boycott as the professional leagues.
The vast majority of schools would simply punt on athletics because it wouldn't be worth the administrative and liability headache.
Ditto bad optics like what is going on at CSU
..Do we really need all these sports?
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Sports, done properly, are a way to show that students can be far more than they think they can be, by pushing the envelope. Basic training is similar, because the reality of war is far harder.
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A few observations:
1. Pushing the envelope in sports does not equip someone to push the envelope in academics. That’s why physically handicapped people can succeed academically better than the typical college jock.
2. We built a nation and advanced science long before there were spectator sports. Moral character did it, not sports. ROTC and jogging can take the place of spectator sports.
The one in the upper right is a Flubro.
Yes they will be hurt.
But there is a big opportunity here to once and for all raze the corrupt university system as we know it.
Colleges have four sources of funding:
1) Tuition (65-80% of a school’s reenue)
2) Sports $, both in person and shared television revenues
3) Endowments
4) Fed contracts for work
We are looking at the drastic decline of #1, the temporary elimination of #2, which will seriously affect #3.
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