Shaking My Head, the man says. Shaking my head cuz one day before the big scrimmage a chunk of the team attacked police and property outside a bar last night. This program, the man says.
But it isn’t just the program, right? Texas Tech is a university; a university whose current national rank is #176 , down twenty points from a couple of years ago. A real trailer park of a place, with violent tailgaters, sadistic coaches, 1500 current lawsuits from dismissed sadistic coaches, a freshman who a few weeks ago got annoyed and took his handgun out and blew the head off of a campus security guy, and, well, there’s jest a ton of stuff like that about this great Lubbock institution. Ask me about Alberto Gonzales!
So … shaking your head? You live in the world’s biggest academic shithole. There’s not enough room in all that shit to move your head, let alone shake it.
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UD thanks JND.
March 26th, 2018 at 2:59PM
Colleges receive more applications when their basketball teams do well
https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2018/03/daily-chart-16?cid1=cust/ddnew/email/n/n/20180326n/owned/n/n/ddnew/n/n/n/nn/Daily_Dispatch/email&etear=dailydispatch&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily_Dispatch&utm_term=20180326
March 26th, 2018 at 3:08PM
Keith: And what’s the quality of the people who apply? Basically a large number of applicants is exactly what you’d expect, given that the high-profile success of a basketball/football team has attracted general attention. But while a few high-quality additional applications may be expected (according to the studies that have been done), the main thing you’re getting is exactly what you’d expect: Applications from people who are going to help keep schools like Texas Tech and Auburn and U Nebraska and Louisville and so many others exactly what they are and will always be, despite the attention and the money that have come from athletics: sports factories.