[The commissioner of the Big Ten conference] warned of the risks involved in reducing [athletics] spending. Doing so is likely to raise the ire of donors, university trustees and members of the public. “It is a contact sport,” Delany said. “I’ve found it much easier to generate revenue than to cut costs. I’m being honest with you.”
And that’s how you make the world safe for Bobby Lowder.
October 27th, 2009 at 3:39PM
And while Berkeley is implementing layoffs and furloughs, its chancellor is lending money to the sports program to keep it afloat:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/26/MN0L1AAUM3.DTL
October 28th, 2009 at 6:58AM
It is even easier to talk about generating revenues than actually doing it. So that’s what we’ll do. I’m being honest with you.
October 28th, 2009 at 7:12AM
Correct, tp. Most of them aren’t even generating revenue. Far from it.
October 28th, 2009 at 9:13AM
I put this through my BTABST (Big-Time Athletics BS Translator) and the following came out:
"I’d rather sell the remaining tiny remnant of my integrity than make hard choices about what’s really important."
October 28th, 2009 at 2:26PM
Bear in mind that some Big 10 universities have elected boards of trustees, and that past presidents have found that it doesn’t pay to take on the football coach