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- From: rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn)
- Subject: football priority
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.194525@eklektix.com>
- Organization: eklektix - Boulder, Colorado
- References: <1992Nov17.225655.23248@claven.ucar.edu> <1992Nov18.230811.7510@col.hp.com> <1992Nov19.155736.4928@craycos.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:45:25 GMT
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- sog@craycos.com (Steve Gombosi) writes:
- >...As Greg Woods pointed out, [McCartney]
- >he's got a lifetime contract and can't be fired. He's also the highest-paid
- >employee of the State of Colorado. The coach's Neanderthal political views
- >aside, I think that's a pretty sad commentary on our priorities in this state.
-
- It *is* sad...but it is entirely accurate.
-
- The Buffs win a bowl game and everybody goes crazy. Hey, fine! We even go
- off and paint a bus or two in CU colors (more or less) with some rah-rah on
- the sides. A bit out there, perhaps, but still OK, except...
-
- A CU prof wins a Nobel Prize and it gets a moderate ripple of polite recog-
- nition. He gets invited to speak to the state legislature and damned near
- gets tossed out on his ear because he dares speak to them about educational
- priorities and such. What's this? Substance in a speech in the Capitol?
- Get this guy outa here! What does he know, anyway? (After all, he's only
- a faculty member.) People in the state know and remember names like
- McCartney (or Bienemy and probably a dozen other players from that year)...
- but how many remember the name of the guy who got the Nobel, or the field
- of his work?
-
- Now, to forestall the obvious reply that a good football team brings lots
- of money to the school (which IS true), I'll point out that this doesn't
- mean the coach has to be quite so highly paid, nor (especially) that he
- deserves a lifetime contract. Nor does it mean that the best faculty
- couldn't be highly paid too.
- --
- Dick Dunn rcd@raven.eklektix.com -or- raven!rcd Boulder, Colorado
- ...Simpler is better.
-