Yes, Mike Rice U is now into bold type, garishly warring and litigating personalities, and the baying press in pursuit of the next hilarious unguarded statement. Penn State is still there, a tabloid whose faculty and administration desperately insist it’s back to being a … you know … quiet legitimate scholarly sort of thing (even though, as you read this, the only Penn-State-related word blasting through your brain is SANDUSKY SANDUSKY SANDUSKY). Penn State can give Rutgers pointers… As can the perennial yellow journalism schools, like Auburn, which is in the news for (get ready for it) absolutely total corruption.
We all know big-time sports is the front porch of the university. We’ve been told that by boosters again and again. And it’s true. Eventually, you can see everything. In big, bold type.
April 4th, 2013 at 3:16PM
But sports ARE really important to a university… SU says so.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/04/syracuse_university_at_final_f.html
April 4th, 2013 at 5:06PM
I am amazed that none of these most recent events took place in Texas.
We are likely to lose our place in the pecking order of great universities if this continues.
April 4th, 2013 at 5:21PM
JND: I’m sure Texas will pick up steam.
April 4th, 2013 at 7:04PM
Anybody who only has “SANDUSKY” blasting through their brain when they think of Penn State is really too small-minded to be worth note. The idea that the horrific actions of a few men erase all the good that a wonderful faculty, students, and alumni do is about as ignorant an idea that can be humanly expressed.