… that’s doing the place in. So what if their athletic director (who came in to fix what their sadist-on-wheels basketball coach did to the school’s rep – it became, among other things, a notorious Saturday Night Live joke – and then turned out to have her own apparently sadistic past), so what if she told her staff to reach out and touch people in the community, but “not in a Jerry Sandusky-type way.”
In itself, this remark is nothing. But in context, it’s just this week’s shabby Rutgers Thing, part of a narrative involving a school giving all of its money to athletics, run by a ridiculously greedy new president, fronted by hilariously obscene fans, coached by cretins…
May 2nd, 2025 at 11:00AM
[…] Remarks by University Diaries this morning suggested a search for Rutgers in this journal. That search yields a post from Dec. 30, 2005, that is closely related to both this morning's previous post and to recent Log24 remarks on entities and concrete universals . […]