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“Western Kentucky University’s board ran roughshod over faculty regent Robert Dietel last week, as it rushed to embrace Division I-A football…. WKU’s board told Dietel to shut up. Contempt dripped from [one board member]: ‘People on this board dedicate their time for free. They have better things to do than let some university professor just keep talking.'”

Dietel can take no pleasure in what has ensued over the last few years, though I’m sure he’s not surprised. He told the idiots at WKU what would happen. They didn’t listen. The school is now a money-hemorrhaging laughingstock.

Here’s our most recent information on WKU:

There will be a lot of empty seats at LP Field in Nashville tonight when the University of Kentucky and Western Kentucky open the 2011 football season at 9:15 p.m.

At 3 p.m. Wednesday, 40,262 tickets were available at Ticketmaster.com, including nearly 10,000 in the lower level. The stadium, where the NFL’s Tennessee Titans play their home games, holds 68,798 fans.

They’re desperately handing out free tickets so the stadium won’t look like a funeral home.

Margaret Soltan, September 1, 2011 4:59AM
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5 Responses to ““Western Kentucky University’s board ran roughshod over faculty regent Robert Dietel last week, as it rushed to embrace Division I-A football…. WKU’s board told Dietel to shut up. Contempt dripped from [one board member]: ‘People on this board dedicate their time for free. They have better things to do than let some university professor just keep talking.'””

  1. theprofessor Says:
    September 1st, 2011 at 7:01AM

    Hmm. Scheduling a game between two Kentucky teams in Tennessee. What could go wrong? It’s only 70 miles from Bowling Green to Nashville, after all. The convenient 9:15 PM starting time will ensure that the WKU faithful can be back home by 2 AM or so.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:
    September 1st, 2011 at 7:44AM

    tp: Sounds like heaven to me. A fun car trip with your pals, getting tanked up along the way, rah-rah-rah, then driving back pissed into the Kentucky dawn. Even better than tailgating.

  3. superdestroyer Says:
    September 2nd, 2011 at 7:43AM

    Since Western Kentucky has no hangers-on fans (Wal-Mart Alumni) there is no reason to schedule a game at a neutral site.

    In looking at the internet reporting on Texas A&M sports programs, I am amazed that the sports media does not have a term or word that can be used to describe non-student, non-alumni fans who are enthusiastic about a schools (or more specifically the football team).

    As college football reorganizes itself, it seems to be that the schools with hangers-on fans are trying to separate themselves from the schools without them.

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