Well, I know the process and it is VERY difficult to arbitrarily hand out faculty raises. Most raises are simply due to a change in status from one instructor classification to another ... which is all automatic and has zero to do with athletic performance. It's easy enough to check. I'm in the office tomorrow and will ask Payroll.
As a dirt poor Co-op student, I can tell you a great deal about "work". I also knew a lot of football players at Tech and their rigorous schedules were nothing like a regular student. Do you even remember what it was like on Saturday mornings after playing even high school football Friday night? I did good just walking to the breakfast table. They have a regimented schedule beyond what you might think. Ask some of them.
Why should we believe someone who has first hand knowledge, when we can rely on anonymous internet statements from someone with "two friends who ......"?
My best students are the athletes. Why? First, every student is required to bring their phone to class and on each phone is a tracking app. The classrooms are enabled to track the attendance of each athlete in real time. The Athletic Dept knows where every athlete is during class hours and there's no hiding ditching. As a result, they have perfect, or very close to perfect attendance.
The president of the university has things much more important to deal with than athletics. Fans are consumed with athletics and believe that universities exist only to provide entertainment on Saturday afternoons. The president manages the entire university. The AD is responsible for managing athletics. The public face of a university's athletics should be the athletic director.
I was in Woodruff one suite beside basketball players twice while in school, during the same time frame as @SOWEGA Jacket. Most of the time, those guys: Were up and gone before I woke up, had workouts, then class, then practice, then mandatory study session, then finally made it back to the dorms at around 9:00pm. Most of the athletes would probably not get into GT if it wasn't for athletics, but arguing that they do nothing and just have everything handed to them sounds more like envy than an actual assessment of what they do: physically, athletically, and even academically.
I don't disagree with that. I would have enjoyed access to free food and the tutoring sessions. However, I would not have enjoyed the daily rigor. I think I would rather have done it the way I did, as you said with no safety net. I was able to do what I wanted to, when I wanted to. It was 100% my responsibility to go to class, do my assignments, and study. It was 100% my responsibility to ensure my food money lasted. It was 100% my responsibility to make sure I could pay tuition. However, I could go where I wanted to, when I wanted to, and do whatever I wanted to do.
Cabrera has been photographed at games. He was at last season’s GT-UGA game and was described as being livid about the sea of red in the local paper. He’s blogged and tweeted about GT sports and related items.
Notre Dame is the ACC's make-or-break. If they join, all will be well. If they don't, the conference may be relegated to second tier.
ESPN networks accounted for 54% of all college football viewing ... up 4% from the previous year. A quick read suggests that ESPN's coverage model for CFB is different from the NFL because of the local demand of various college teams. So the strategy is to promote Game Day by Home Depot (a ratings monster), then use the various games to create feeds into their digital assets. So it's the News + Analysis Shows that really drive the ratings rather than the games themselves. At least, that's how I read it.
Can't argue with that, but....have you ever tried to sell your house with the front porch falling down!? The President of Notre Dame and Stanford seem to think the front porch has value, even though the kitchen and bathrooms are more important.
That might be possible, but all of the dominos would have to be in place before any of it could happen. To get ND onboard, I think it would take having Stanford and Navy and a very large TV contract. Probably also a guarantee of no more than 8 conference games. To get Stanford, it would take having ND on board and a very large TV contract. To get a very large TV contract it would take having ND, Stanford, and probably Oregon and Washington on board. It is possible, but would take a lot of simultaneous coordination.
I say make a deal with the SEC to swap Clem’s son and the criminoles for Vandy and Kentucky.
I agree that nothing is happening right now. But, there is no way it lasts to 2036. The seed has been planted just like an expanded playoff. But the difference in yearly money is to great to be ignored and the schools stuck in the ACC won’t just give up. I think the conference will blow up within 5 years which is fairly quickly in college football time. I think we’ll also have an expanded playoffs within 5 years because the pressure keeps mounting every year that goes by and it Bama, UGA, and Ohio St. taking up 3 of the 4. And no one is knocking any of those 3 off their perches yet.
Well the statement about two friends has nothing to do with the raises question. I was replying to another post and decided not to; deleted it and it somehow got put on my post about the raises. The professor who made the statement taught there for 45 years and is a friend. No reason for him to lie. So you say you know Vespidae personally so you trust him. I know the ex professor and I trust him.Why should we believe someone who has first hand knowledge, when we can rely on anonymous internet statements from someone with "two friends who ......"?