Comments on: Another $40 Million for U Stadium?

By: Raindog66

Raindog66 — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 05:43:06 +0000

The should erect giant penises for goal posts.

Make it fun!

By: Saloth Sar

Saloth Sar — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:01:13 +0000

OK, one of my own personal rants over the years has been that the highest paid public employee in any given state has to be the various university football coaches. Unfortunately, I have no evidence to back this up, only vague indignant righteousness which apparently doesn't count for much in a fact-based reality.

So, anyone have a clue here? Then I can bitch about the stadium *and* how the coach is the highest paid public employee.

Or for gods sake, just set me straight and tell me I am deluded.

By: tmay

tmay — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:20:15 +0000

if they had a model train bulding scholarship I wouldn’t be in so much f#$*ing debt right now.

By: jeffk

jeffk — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:02:15 +0000

I’m only calling the students that have no academic purpose for being associated with the university “trained apes”. You know who I’m talking about. The ones that belong in minor-league programs that don’t yet exist (like for baseball). I suggest we refer to other student athletes (myself included, in the past) as “hobbyists”, no more worthy of a scholarship than someone who builds model trains. If the athletic scholarships are eliminated and not replaced by academic ones, fine – that still makes things more fair for students who are academically qualified.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:25:14 +0000

Big G, "Pax Romana"--I don't think that term means what you think it means.

I'm with nateek--there are a hell of a lot more non-football college athlete than "trained apes." Athletic scholarships help other majors, too--I knew several people in my engineering classes that were on the rowing, track, or other teams. Even if you eliminated athletic scholarships, it's not as if they'll all be replaced by academic ones. A lot of the athletic scholarships are funded by boosters who want them used in that way.

By: tmay

tmay — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:15:32 +0000

guys we seriously need to get on Tom’s “Book Stadium” idea. Throw in some “Learning Colluseums” and a few “Science Arenas” while you’re at it.

By: jeffk

jeffk — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:44:52 +0000

I won’t submit everyone to another rant about this except to say that when I heard this on MPR yesterday I almost drove off the road. Maybe the solution is getting children to appreciate education and research for its own sake at a younger age, then they’d fund the book stadiums as adults instead of having to be tricked into supporting education by giving them a false sense of comradery with a couple of dozen trained apes.

By: bud jr

bud jr — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:48:04 +0000

This is simply all about Sid and Pinky and their Big 10 / Rose Bowl / cheerleader fantasies.

The joke is truly on the taxpayer.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:58:37 +0000

HOORAY for BIG G!!!!!!!! But not all Minnesotans are stupid…I did NOT vote for Higgins or Stenglein in my district and I did as much as I could to fight stadium tax. What is the saying thay applies here? Oh, yes…the rich get richer, the poor stay poor.

By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:03:28 +0000

Jeez - if only a stem cell could *at least* throw a Hail Mary (and at get somebody's attention!)

Whoa, time-out for a commercial break - All those guys on the field are in fact former embryonic stem cells! And they still have plenty of adult stem cells which keep them strong, healthy and which may provide medical cures for fellow human beings not quite so lucky! Let's have a big cheer for stem cell research! Hurrah!! Hurrah!!!

Oh, Never mind!