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Owlcatraz; Six Players Over Texas; and, Now, Game Your Way to A College Education.

As hard times hit big-time college sports, the brilliant ideas keep coming. Sell naming rights to your stadium to a for-profit prison; dismiss six football players in the space of a two days (five more dismissals may be on the way); raffle off a year’s tuition to students willing to buy season tickets.

Of these three desperation moves, only the purge of players at the University of Texas is proceeding unimpeded, though fans are beginning to grumble that the last coach didn’t mind having a flock of felons

And you do have to wonder what happens when the new coach removes so much of the team that he doesn’t really have a … team left…

Florida Atlantic University Owls fans (and every late night comic in America) shot down the prison thing; and it turns out state gambling laws might wreak havoc with the University of Iowa’s pioneering approach to tuition payment.

Our universities (using our tax dollars) are paying coaches and ADs millions upon millions of dollars a year, so UD is sure they’ll keep coming up with winning initiatives.

Margaret Soltan, August 1, 2014 8:56AM
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