… cutting tree limbs overhead, trying to take down dead branches from the big snow storm.**
But that’s not important. Forget that. Forget that, in Stage One of its extensive lumber-liquidation chez UD, David Gregg’s Tree Removal Service is out there stripping our front oak. A grizzled man in a green tee sits in an open cab at the end of an Altec truck-mounted crane shaving and shaving…
But listen up. James saw this and sent it to UD. It’s written by a colleague of Mr UD’s at the University of Maryland. Read it all. Excerpts:
The culture of football worship [at universities] has gotten so out of control that I think the only solution is to get rid of it entirely…. [W]e need to eliminate football entirely from our universities if we want to maintain our pre-eminent position as the world’s scientific and technological leader.
He says everything UD‘s been saying ever since she opened shop. He gives a local example.
At the University of Maryland last year, the football coach fell out of favor with the athletic director, who wanted to replace him. (This despite the fact that the coach was very successful, with an overall winning record.) The problem was, he had one more year to go in his contract, and the university would have to pay him a cool $2 million if they fired him. U. Maryland doesn’t exactly have money to burn: for three years running, it has imposed furloughs on all employees and prohibited all raises, including cost-of-living increases. So you’d think that blowing $2 million to pay a coach to sit on the sidelines, and paying who-knows-how-much to hire a new coach, would be out of the question.
Nope. The brand-new President of the university, in office just one month, announced the hiring of a new coach, along with a $2 million payout to the old coach.
The author is afraid to write the thing. He’s scared. He says twice that he knows he’s going to get himself into trouble, attacking fabulous, fabulous football. Already he’s got commenters up the wazoo telling him he’s the Antichrist.
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** Inspiration for this post’s title here.
February 18th, 2011 at 6:50PM
No comments. Isn’t that amazing?
February 18th, 2011 at 8:21PM
Well, now there are two.