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“The gigantic portraits of [Coach Butch] Davis dominating the football center told all we needed to know.”

Once again, as in the aftermath of Penn State, an evocation of a sports factory as smiling cult-of-personality-land… Just the thing you want a university to be… A happy land for you and me… Coach Chairman smiling beatifically…

This guy – a professor at UNC – thinks sports boosters should have to give half of their donation to the academic side of the university. But look at his first two paragraphs if you want to understand why this proposal will sail way wide of the goal posts.

Margaret Soltan, January 2, 2012 12:26PM
Posted in: sport

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  1. QotD — Fantasy Island Edition | Professor Mondo Says:

    […] indefatigable Margaret Soltan puts us some knowledge (as Paul Anka might say) in the form of Gene Nichol’s modest proposal for rectifying the […]

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