re: Bob Mann hates on LSU Football, gets told STTDB.......

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It is a fricking University. Athletics wouldn't exist without the educational institution. It's supposed to be an extracurricular activity, but athletics are the tail wagging the dog. And some on the academic side resent that? I'm shocked, shock

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Athletics gives an opportunity to showcase a university on national TV several times a year, athletics reinvests MILLIONS of dollars to the university despite that recognition it allows, and athletics has ZERO negative impact on the funding of the academic side of the university. So the only people who "resent" that are morons right?

The academia crew only sees one thing and it pisses them off so they complain rather than find constructive solutions. They would rather bring down a successfully run aspect of the university that ONLY helps rather than attempt to elevate the academic side.

So in other words they are jealous and they allow this zero sum idea of funding to cloud their rational thought patterns. In other words they are using political tactics to damage part of the very institution for which they work because they don't like the reality of the situation. It is a political tactic used by both parties... "Who cares who we hurt as long as we get our way!" But the problem is they are only hurting themselves, just like the R or D who decides the other party is the enemy rather than they are both on the same team.

But life goes on