… than a morally sick school just sitting there getting sicker and sicker.
Each line of this bland account of FAMU’s violent, deficit-ridden sports program should be read carefully. Note first that the reporter fails to mention the murderous FAMU band, a number of whose members will go to jail for hazing manslaughter.
While wondering why
Interim athletic director Michael Smith … detailed a deficit of $4.2 million in 2008 growing to a $7.8 million accumulated loss through this year.
the Tallahassee Democrat reporter doesn’t ask whether people might be so disgusted to be associated with a sick sports program that they won’t go to their games. He simply quotes the budget guy at FAMU saying the deficit must be because they’re losing games or something… Then he quotes some trustees.
Trustees noted that the vast majority of college athletics programs operate in the red…
Lala everybody’s doing it. Of course, at FAMU, the red is literal… Profusely flowing in fact…
It continues. Here’s one of the trustees, touting athletics less than three years after FAMU marching band hazers beat a fellow student to death.
“Athletics do a lot more for your school than just athletics. It creates an environment that energizes the community,” he said.
And here’s the new president:
“Athletics, I agree, is an integral part of an education. Its impact on the economic growth and economic development in this town and in Florida is extremely important,” she said. “We have to understand the level of commitment the institution has to athletics.”
You can’t have an education without sports, you see. And after all our sports program helps local businesses.
May 9th, 2014 at 8:26PM
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