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  1. Yep. It sucks. A fairly decent portion of American society would rather field a great football or basketball team rather than invest money into students who are struggling to make it through school. It’s embarrassing how little we care about academics in the US as a whole.
  2. I don’t know what you want me to say about ASU being in the negative as well. There’s only a select few schools turning a profit. I don’t think that’s news to anyone here. I think I already said more schools are going to do this. If ASU folded up the entire athletic program it wouldn’t have any tangible effect on me. It’s just entertainment. I don’t base my life around the football team or athletic program. And it’s pretty easy there “champ” to talk about Utah doing this when they should just drop football if they are taking PE money to field a team.
  3. Wulaw also thought that Dodgers getting Ohtani for the price they paid was a bad decision. He's like an older Helo.
  4. I have an uncle that'd have a coronary if she won the seat. He's not particularly religious nor does he seem to care about Maga from what I can gather, but Crockett is a no go for him.
  5. Getting alcohol sold at all of their sporting events. Should be fun watching Mormons drink during the game and not before it anymore. No way that alcohol ban stays in place with this deal. BYU will probably follow with that as well. Should make for some good Mormon on Mormon violence, especially during football and basketball games. I know it’s not that simple, but seeing this transpire will be something.
  6. Not her best idea doing this. She won’t win the primary and she’ll just be wasting Talarico’s time having to focus on her in this primary. Democrats seem to have terminal bad decision disease.
  7. Who is gonna be the first school to play home games on the moon?
  8. So Juan how’s that move over to Flushing working out for you? Enjoying playing for one of the worst run franchises in pro sports in America?
  9. Which points to the greed of the whole operation. This will all eventually collapse upon itself. I’m not saying UT will go broke in athletics, but overall this is just not a sustainable way to do things. Utah is just small potatoes and they aren’t winning anything with or without this money. When the more prominent schools opt into this either on their own or through their conference affiliation it will not be a good time. I expect that ASU will also one day face this same decision. I’d like to hope they’ll decline, but that just isn’t how human beings are wired. There is never a number on money that makes it enough for people that have the wiring to eternally chase more of it.
  10. That I can understand. That line where the limit is gets crossed by so many schools to the point of absurdity. Your mediocre football program cranking out a Jeff Fisher wet dream of 5-7 or 6-6 is just a pointless program to overfund. I realize this is mostly preaching to the choir, but more money into education means your graduates will be better prepared for the world they will step int. Buying that 4 star WR for your football team that never does anything is, well, it’s just ignorant and a slap in the face to the professors working their backside off to provide a great education.
  11. Or take the hit to the ego and drop down to the FCS. If you’re going into debt to fund your overall athletic program you are sending the message loud and clear that the school cares more about athletics than education. This is such an incredibly ridiculous American mindset. Get young people a quality education that they can then use to help out in society. But no, let’s get more state of the art practice facilities built for our football team that never wins anything that matters. Screw the students here to get an actual education.
  12. I think I understand people and the corrosive effect of money upon them. It’s odd that you earnestly believe a school would turn down money. PEOPLE ARE GREEDY. Jesus tap dancing Christ you live in a state filled with clowns in positions of power that will always want more money. To think any obscenely rich institution, it’s athletic programs or whatever else, would say “your money is no good here” just won’t happen. You can bookmark this thread for when it comes to pass a few years down the road.
  13. So when this happens to schools, and I know it is most athletic programs, are they getting loans to cover the shortfall or just dipping into education funds to break even?
  14. None of that matters. More money is more money. People who base their entire worth on having more of it, even at a school like Texas, will take it. This is just some simple human psychology and how greed will inevitably lead to Texas doing this. It won’t be right now or even in the near future, but as sure as the sun rises everyday it’ll happen. Aggy is the one I am eagerly waiting on with this. They’ll take the money and try to make the Tackle Box seat 200,000 fans.
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