This writer to Colorado’s Daily Camera points out that football is bankrupting the University of Colorado:
[B]etween 2006 and 2011 the university, students and the state subsidized roughly 25 percent ($15 million) of the Athletic Department’s annual operating costs. The Athletic Department has also taken $18 million in loans from the university system over the past several years. These investments are particularly troublesome considering that Colorado is 48th in the country in funding for its universities.
Who knows how this troublesome state of affairs happened? The point is, I mean, whatever, the point is there’s a solution!
Alcohol sales would help to make the Athletic Department more financially self-sufficient…
I mean, we got into this mess who the fuck knows how but now that we’re in it let’s hit the kids up for booze and solve it dammit. And anyway the students are victims of the current policy!
[P]atrons are forced to get their fill prior to games…
The current policy forces students to get so drunk they become “a danger to themselves and a danger and nuisance to others.”
This state-sponsored coercion must end. Sic semper tyrannis!