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‘”The level [to] which these coaching salaries have grown over the last decade raises the core question of why does college athletics exist?” said Amy Perko, executive director of the Knight Commission.’

Talk about going cosmic. UD, loyal readers know, uses a phrase – going cosmic – to describe the polemical move in which you escape doing anything about a given problem by moving to so vast a level of abstraction about it as to allow pointless, perpetual, dithering.

Of course, pointless perpetual dithering is the Knight Commission’s middle name (UD has attended her share of Knight Commission gatherings, featuring pep talks by such luminaries as Penn State’s Tim Curley), so you’d expect the person who runs the show to say something like University coaches make so much money at a time of dire financial problems at universities that it makes you want to… to… to pose the question Why does college athletics exist?

Margaret Soltan, October 4, 2014 10:00AM
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