re: Athletic Dept. Giving 5.5 mill to academics

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If your neighbors house was on fire and you had the ability to help extinguish the fire would you help? What if, in a freakish coincidence, you had a neighbors house catch on fire every year and, through good planning and good fortune, you were able to help extinguish it, would you help? Would you help or would you watch it burn to the ground while screaming, "the original architect of your house should have built it better"? Of course, if you chose the latter you wouldn't be out any money or effort to help save your neighbors house; unfortunately, you would now live in a neighborhood full of burned out useless homes. Doesn't it seem the wiser move to help prevent the fire in the first place? I think the gift from the A.D. to the school is a prudent move to help prevent the fire before it starts.

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I agree with all of this. But I can't help but think that the hippie liberal professors who were raising ten kinds of hell about the contract that Les got a few years ago and the money spent on football. They will also say that athletics should do this, but if the shoe was on the other foot would they be willing to help athletics? I suspect that they wouldn't.