11-08-2021, 09:38 AM
(11-08-2021, 05:59 AM)OutsiderFan Wrote: I mean imagine if Stanford had teachers producing student academic performance like the Stanford Football team. How could it possibly not start losing out on talented students and faculty as trash performance is accepted, and see its reputation fall as a result?I gues you are not familiar with a thing called tenure? I don't know how it is today, but when I was at Stanford I had some great faculty members as teachers and I had some faculty members that were horrible ones who made no bones about the fact they didn't care if we learned anything or not. Nobody was going to get fired. Simply a very bad analogy.
Actually, I think firing an assistant because his squad plays badly and making a public spectacle of it sends the message that "This program is in disarray and they are looking for scapegoats". It doesn't send the message this is a place that expects to win and will do what it takes to win. It sends the message this is a place that doesn't know how to win and is flailing about trying to find a way to win.