Readers who have followed my coverage of hapless Central Michigan University will be unsurprised by this headline in the school’s newspaper:
OTHER STATE UNIVERSITIES ARE FLOURISHING; WHAT’S WRONG WITH US?
(My headline is from the article’s comment thread.)
It’s not just those huge athletic deficits – the product of years of all-American asininity about the glories of football… oh, here’s another post about the glories of CMU football… It’s also about a truly pathetic board of trustees… a pass-the-buck president… And a general no-one’s-home aspect to the place. Of course students are beginning to notice.