… whoa-woo-woo-way-whacked-out Western Kentucky University go totally trailer trash via its decision in ’06 to join Division I-A football. One of their professors, Robert Dietel, begged them at the time to reconsider, and got shat on thusly by the board of trustees:
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.’
In 2009, WKU was the only winless team in the country. Moving briskly to 2011, things looked just as bleak. 2012 was all about hiring major gross-out Bobby Petrino as coach, a move hailed as “slime time” by the nation’s sports journalists.
Can you top that???
Yes. For 2013, I give you…
And that’s just offseason! Damn season hasn’t even started yet!
And who’s the good ol’ boy gets to talk to the press ’bout how serious he takes moral and legal hoohaw?
Yeah! Billy Bob Bobby!
Div I-A. SCORE!
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UPDATE: Bobby Petrino makes a small appearance in this helpful pre-season rundown of notable plays on SEC teams. UD knows we can expect more of the same this year!
August 8th, 2013 at 11:13AM
They might dedicate their time fr free but don’t they get to decide how the University spends its money like on, oh I don’t know, like buildings and services and such? Not that I know anything that isn’t in the papers, and maybe they’re all very careful about conflicts of interests. But it’s just possible that there would be possibilities open in the future for someone with a mind to help a friend make some money.
August 8th, 2013 at 2:46PM
Just a question for Mrs. UD, whose writing, polemical and otherwise, I adore, and who I find inspirational. That’s meant straight up — no irony.
“Thusly” — in “It’s A Small [etc]” Was tongue in cheek. Right?
August 8th, 2013 at 2:48PM
Greg: Thanks for the kind words. Thusly was indeed tongue in cheek.