… about the University of Miami scandal. Here’s a typical one:
I grew up on two major items on the vast American sports smorgasbord – major league baseball and college sports. In my case, the direct spectating involvement was more college basketball than football, although I was exposed to some very interesting football events when my father was an assistant athletic director at Villanova in the early ’50s…
Ah yes I remember it well… It was stinkin’ crooked then and it’s stinkin’ crooked now and I love it… Because I’m an American! Aren’t you an American?
We are Americans. We want this in our lives.
What?… Say again? Louder?… You don’t want it in your life? Or at least in your university?… What are you Canadian or something? Sit down shut up and listen … Ah… Let’s see… It was ’52 I think… No, maybe ’53…
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Here’s another old fart:
The scandal “only strengthens my support,” said attorney George Lott, a Miami alumni whose family is another major donor. “I think UM alumni, students and faculty will come together as a family and we will get through this together.”
If only we could have a scandal of this magnitude every five years or so! Alumni support would be through the roof.
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Let’s leave Pops and Old Fart on their rockers and go with the youth vote. Here’s a lecture from a dynamic hypercapitalist on why all of life is a market and corruption is a who-gives-a-shit byproduct of markets.
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It’d be interesting to hear these guys on, say, the drug war in Mexico.
Pops: Cocaine? We’re Americans. We want this in our lives. Why, I remember a lovely trip the wife and me took to Oaxaca one summer…
Old Fart: The drug wars bring us together as a family.
Hyper: Hey baby it’s a great big dirty world get real all markets produce corollary damage…
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Essentially all of these guys are signalling that if anyone tries to do anything about their game they’re going to go weewee in their pants.