re: The real story behind this debacle

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quote: Remember its just football While true, whether right or wrong, football is the lifeblood and backbone of most universities. For most schools, do away with the football program and you will see your university quickly become a shell of its former self.

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Idiotic statement. So many universities exist and are even more respected with lessor or no football programs: Duke, Harvard, Georgia Tech, Stanford, Syracuse, uConn, and you could go on and on.

I would say the inverse to be true. Aside from the few schools that make money in the athletic department (standalone without "student fees"), most schools would do just as well academically without football.

Damn it.


This might have been our only chance to get Fisher.

the article has been updated, and it is not a pleasant update:

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UPDATE: Per a follow-up conversation with a source close to the athletic program, one change to make – it wasn’t Saturday morning when Alexander tubed the buyout of Miles; it was Wednesday. But for the same reason.

We’re also told that Alleva actually told Miles his job was no longer in jeopardy after Alexander’s scuppering of the buyout, but the coach didn’t believe him. Which explains the rather strange and chaotic circumstance whereby Miles implied to his Friday Gridiron Club luncheon guests that he was on his way out and the athletic department had to hastily deny reports which surfaced to that effect out of that meeting.

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(Updated) Notes on a F. King Debacle