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[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Athletics’
Penn State Gets Off Lightly, How come the UW gets off totally?
Here are the punishments Emmert and the NCAA announced today for Penn State. I have three comments: 1. Why only one year worth of financial penalties and who gets the $60 million? Why didn’t the NCAA require that these moneys go to the victims? Is the NCAA (rightly) afraid it will be sue3d[...]
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[...]
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[...]
September 10th, 2011 - 6:26 pm § in Schools & Colleges
DREAM GAME
Now is the the time to dream. New stadium, new year .. Penn State v Huskies … Dream Game?????[...]
April 30th, 2011 - 12:02 pm § in Uncategorized
Bill Proposed to Force Sale of University of Iowa’s Pollock Painting
A bill was introduced in February in the Iowa House that would require the University of Iowa to sell Jackson Pollock’s Mural, in order to create funding for scholarships. So let me see, we take out a loan of $200.000,000 to BUY a new Husky stadium and the we could sell something to pay of [[...]
College Athletics … Wealthy Private, Rockefeller Univeristy Competes Toe to Toe With Big Time NCAA Conference School
Down a goal to No. 2/3 Minnesota (13-2-0, 8-2-0 WCHA) with 2:22 to play in the third period, the No. 9/9 Rockefeller women’s hockey team, The Ladies, (5-3-0, 5-2-0 ECAC) earned a power play opportunity after a checking call landed the Gophers’ senior defenseman Anne Schleper in the pena[...]