Stanford Football: No. 6 Cardinal Defeats No. 2 Oregon 26-20 Amazing, Stanford with its high academic standards fields a team that beats the Nike funded Oregon Ducks! The UW admissions policies for athletes have very low standards. Stanford goes after bright kids who can lay football. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Wise Huskies’
December 20th, 2012 - 11:40 am § in Misc.
UW in top 25 … for academic standing of atheletic program!
Go Huskeys? The UW Athletic Program ranked # 11 in academic success of our athletes …. Pretty good! … Harvard only ranked 114! Stanford, UNC, Georgetown,Notre Dame, Penn State, UCLA, Michigan, Oregon, and Princeton* beat us. We easily beat the Air Force Academy and USC at 73 and 23[...]
April 20th, 2012 - 4:17 am § in Misc.
If Husky Stadium is such a good idea, why not go all the way and create Husky University?
Defenders of the UW’s new 1/4 billion dollar football stadium (added to the 1 billion Seattle spent for Seahawks Stadium) claim that this public money is well spent because it creates construction jobs. I do not see how this can be true. There is a huge difference between spending public dolla[...]
A CPA Looks at the UW Athletic Department
I attended last Saturday’s Republican caucus to support Rick Santorum. As a follower of Jefferson, I believe wer need two real parties. It time the Republican Party run an hoest candidate. I will write more about this later …now I want to discuss the Huskies. At that SaturdayR[...]
January 12th, 2012 - 12:19 pm § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
The Huskies are heroes to the community … %$$# the students!
Last month Bloomberg Businessweek ran a longform report on Husky Stadium. I have copied the text with added comments and links it below but here are some highlights: “We were cutting billions of dollars out of our budget, and we are going to build a stadium. Really?” says Hunter, 51, a D[...]
December 1st, 2011 - 11:09 pm § in Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges
Penn State: Where there is smoke, shouldn’t you look for fire?
Joe Paterno Advocated Special Treatment For Penn State Football Players: Report By SEANNA ADCOX 11/22/11 Huffington Post and AP, excerpts Asked …whether disciplinary cases at Penn State (other than the Sandusky affair)would be reviewed, an NCAA spokeswoman said she had nothing else to say a[...]
November 19th, 2011 - 2:22 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Phyllis Wise Will Cut Athletic Subsidy at Her New U
from ACADEME BLOG by John Wilson Last month the Chicago Tribune had a lengthy front-page article about how the University of Illinois’ general fund subsidizes the athletic program with $920,000 in free tuition waivers for student athletes. The University plans to reduce this number to $500,000[...]
Colleges can give atheletes 2,000/week in pocket money, Bobby Rush: Like the Mafia!
WASHINGTON (AP) —”I think they’re just one of the most vicious, most ruthless organizations ever created by mankind,” Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush said of the NCAA at a congressional forum on college sports Tuesday. “I think you would compare the NCAA to Al Capone and to the Ma[...]
The Ironic Role of Marc Emmert in the Penn State Scandal.
Emmert Says Penn State Child Abuse Scandal, a ‘Cautionary Tale,’ An article by Libby Sander in the Chronicle of Higher Education quotes liberally from UW recent ex-President about the situation at Penn State. “It certainly didn’t help Penn State’s reputation,” Emmert said. “Thi[...]
THE HUSKIES’ STAND ON CHILD AB– USE
Mark Emmert moves into new territory by cracking down on Penn State at almost the same time the uW Huskies recruited a 14-year-old quarterback. HYPOCRISY[...]