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“It’s pathetic to walk by the stadium in the middle or late season and see almost nobody there.”

A local person comments on an article welcoming yet another year of on-field nothingness and off-field bankruptcy to Missouri State University (background here).

MSU, with its recent history of sports accounting scandals, is gearing up for another Samuel Beckett season (I can’t go on I’ll go on), degrading itself to the big boys in sure-to-lose games in order to pick up a check; sending its latest interim interim interim president out to say to the press that they’ve got to keep football because it gives the school band something to do… And because a program like MSU’s “helps build student spirit” …

Margaret Soltan, September 3, 2011 8:39AM
Posted in: sport

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One Response to ““It’s pathetic to walk by the stadium in the middle or late season and see almost nobody there.””

  1. University Diaries » “The university had given Brixey an Aug. 17 deadline to explain not only the missing money but why $81,000 in loose cash was in his locked desk at the bookstore.” Says:

    […] Naturally, the big money loss is about football. There’s a big new useless stadium about whose profitability the university lied (details here and here and here and here and here and here). […]

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