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University of Louisville: You can’t keep a sleazy athletics program down.

Last Sunday night, UL’s tight ends coach

swerved on Interstate 64, nearly struck a barrier wall multiple times and drove through a construction zone where workers were present.

… Sheriff’s deputies had to pull [him] out of his car after he refused to comply with their orders to exit, according to the citation. Deputies then attempted to run field sobriety tests, but [he] walked into the interstate, “almost being struck by a truck pulling a horse trailer,” before deputies pulled him to safety. [He] had multiple open containers in his vehicle as well as multiple empty beer cans in the passenger seat.

He’s been hitting the bottle ever since they closed the on-campus whorehouse.

Though you’d think he’d find some consolation in his $600,000-plus salary AND a monthly $500 car allowance.

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Hey! They’re paying this guy to drive his car into construction workers! What a deal.

Margaret Soltan, August 21, 2018 1:29AM
Posted in: sport

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4 Responses to “University of Louisville: You can’t keep a sleazy athletics program down.”

  1. theprofessor Says:

    Honest to God. A college tight end coach making $600K? They can’t have more than 4-5 players at that position.

  2. dcat Says:

    Ding ding ding! theprofessor has it right. Six tight ends listed on the 2018 roster. Now contrast that with the rhetoric politicians love to aim at (usually apocryphal) professors earning 175 grand a year or so and only teaching a handful of students. And keep in mind the mission of an institution. And keep in mind that tiny teaching loads, especially at public R1’s, often are the result of external grants and NOT public monies. And keep in mind (that whole “apocryphal” thing) that unlike Dr. Strawman conjured up in the mind of some politician we have a concrete example of a coach with six athletes directly under him, in a program that loses money, earning assloads of cash.

    And keep in mind also that U of L athletics loses money overall, and I am willing to stake all the money in my pocket — admittedly less than the coach’s monthly car allowance by a long way — that a massive hunk of that money loss comes in the vortex of super-expensive football, especially at a school where basketball is by far the biggest driver. In 2015 and 2016 the academic side of U of L had to subsidize athletics to the tune of 4+ million a year. That’s a lot of $175,000-a-year professors.

  3. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Well said, dcat. UD

  4. dmf Says:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/sports/urban-meyer-zach-smith-ohio-state.html

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