04-19-2012, 01:12 PM
Thoughtful posts re: a situation that has gone from bad to worse...
I am in the minority of California partisans because I believe that Barbour has totally botched the entire situation. Let's review the biggest problem, shall we...
An $8 million annual deficit - unconscionable during a time when tuition is being raised to levels none of ever dreamed of (heck, I paid $100/quarter, with a $20 discount for attending the summer quarter and received an unparalelled education both inside and outside the classroom).
Promises have been made to cut the deficit to $5 million by 2014 but I am very skeptical.
NO, I repeat, NO deficit should be permitted. The department should be entirely selfsustaining. Zero subsidies should be allowed.
I am a strong advocate for slashing as many sports as necessary to eliminate the deficit. Whatever the NCAA minimum is - that is what should be funded (nothing more). I sugget football, men's and women's hoops, women's volleyball and aquatic sports. All this nonsense about self-funding baseball, etc. is just another smoke screen. Baseball should have been allowed to die, along with the other sports that were on the block last year.
The notion of a full array of sports is ludicrous - few, if any, public schools offer the number of sports that are offered at my Alma Mater.
I think the WSJ article was poorly written because of the failure to conduct basic research but the essence of the article was accurate - my Alma Mater has lost its way...
As for the Lupoi comment... I am glad that he left. and I blame JT for allowing Lupoi to have the level of influence that he had over recruiting. No good manager ever allows an employee to possess that kind of leverage. JT dropped the ball. Period. As for Lupoi, he essentially blackmailed the program with his demands. There was no way he could have been satisfied. You can't have a guy like that working for you. Now he is Washington's problem...
Disclaimer:Â I gave up my football season tickets (and my string of 50 straight Big Games) and withdrew all financial support of the athletic program two years ago because I was disgusted with the direction Barbour was taking the program.Â
I am in the minority of California partisans because I believe that Barbour has totally botched the entire situation. Let's review the biggest problem, shall we...
An $8 million annual deficit - unconscionable during a time when tuition is being raised to levels none of ever dreamed of (heck, I paid $100/quarter, with a $20 discount for attending the summer quarter and received an unparalelled education both inside and outside the classroom).
Promises have been made to cut the deficit to $5 million by 2014 but I am very skeptical.
NO, I repeat, NO deficit should be permitted. The department should be entirely selfsustaining. Zero subsidies should be allowed.
I am a strong advocate for slashing as many sports as necessary to eliminate the deficit. Whatever the NCAA minimum is - that is what should be funded (nothing more). I sugget football, men's and women's hoops, women's volleyball and aquatic sports. All this nonsense about self-funding baseball, etc. is just another smoke screen. Baseball should have been allowed to die, along with the other sports that were on the block last year.
The notion of a full array of sports is ludicrous - few, if any, public schools offer the number of sports that are offered at my Alma Mater.
I think the WSJ article was poorly written because of the failure to conduct basic research but the essence of the article was accurate - my Alma Mater has lost its way...
As for the Lupoi comment... I am glad that he left. and I blame JT for allowing Lupoi to have the level of influence that he had over recruiting. No good manager ever allows an employee to possess that kind of leverage. JT dropped the ball. Period. As for Lupoi, he essentially blackmailed the program with his demands. There was no way he could have been satisfied. You can't have a guy like that working for you. Now he is Washington's problem...
Disclaimer:Â I gave up my football season tickets (and my string of 50 straight Big Games) and withdrew all financial support of the athletic program two years ago because I was disgusted with the direction Barbour was taking the program.Â