The Soul of Man Under Southern Frat Boy Football Fandom.
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Mom gets in on the act.
The Soul of Man Under Southern Frat Boy Football Fandom.
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Mom gets in on the act.
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March 10th, 2015 at 11:20AM
If African American university athletes were to go on strike in response to OU frat vulgarity, imagine the number of admin heads that would roll. Without those athletes, unis would be bankrupt within a year’s time, the debt service on all those worthless buildouts can only be produced with media revenue and asses in the seats. A precedent exists, Grambling State football players went on strike two seasons ago:
http://www.npr.org
March 10th, 2015 at 3:51PM
And a high school player committed to Oklahoma just withdrew:
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/recruiting/football/story/_/id/12454429/oklahoma-sooners-recruit-jean-delance-explains-decommitment
Although a reskim of the story doesn’t reveal it, my wife tells me she read that he’s going to Alabama instead!
March 10th, 2015 at 4:08PM
Greg: Yes. I think he’s off to Alabama. I’m thinking of a line from Finnegans Wake:
Off of that praying fan on to them priars!
March 11th, 2015 at 10:24AM
Charlie: No, the universities would not be bankrupt. In most instances they would be better off financially without sports. According the the NCAA’s own figures, only twenty division one colleges have a positive cash flow from their athletic programs.
March 11th, 2015 at 11:46AM
Even if we continued to give away every dollar of financial aid that currently supports athletes, we would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $3 million/yr better just by losing athletics’ operating deficit.
March 13th, 2015 at 5:47PM
Van, professor, unfortunately, the massive buildouts that were created to promote athletics still need to be paid, whether you have an athletic department or not. At the University of Oregon, for instance, they have the most expensive basketball arena in America. Nearly all of it funded by public debt. Close down the AD, and guess what, you still need to pay those bonds. Nearly all of the PAC12 schools went on a football stadium debt jag, nearly all over $200 million. If AA football players decided they were to go on strike, then the networks would want their money back, so where would you get the money for the debt service? Face it, the massive debt that was placed on the shoulders of the academic side has made it pretty much dependent on the AD bringing in da chedder….