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1 of 1- DucksReign
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Not Mario's fault but you can't blame them
I think Mario has to speak softly when it comes to "We need a new...for the football program."
He might be wise to take a page from Jim Harbaugh's playbook at some point i.e. Harbaugh is donating all his bonus money(I believe it is now at $1 million) to all athletic department staff who took voluntary / mandatory pay cuts over the last 18-months.
What the Miami faculty is feeling reflects how many feel about college sports becoming too big a business. Especially when it's draped around the importance of the loudly endorsed "education of the student-athlete."
- Jiffy Jeff
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Re: Not Mario's fault but you can't blame them
The dollars are obscene. I am a capitalist who thinks folks deserve what the negotiate, but this last round of carousel salaries has taken a serious turn that hurts the game and the spirit of the collegiate experience. The optics are what they are, despite how things really work. And what are these optics? Students taking out massive loans to attend degree factories that pump hundreds of millions into sports salaries and facilities. Yes, higher ed is at a serious crossroads without the athletic variable, but the cost to these athletic departments is going to be a slowly disintegrating base of fans and alums who cannot afford to go to the games as older fans and boosters die off….
- WoodburnDuck
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Re: Not Mario's fault but you can't blame them
It is obscene. I think that's why Joey Harrington's letter struck a chord - it was about Oregon, but it may as well have been about college football itself.