[Vision2020] Salaries at UI
Donovan Arnold
donovanarnold@hotmail.com
Sun, 28 Mar 2004 20:12:04 -0800
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<P>Joan,</P>
<P>I laugh at the notion of "saving the athletic program". I ask, what athletic program? There is nothing to save, except for the Women's sports, they actually win. I agree, we should radically slash the male athletic department budget. UI is not know, and most likely will never be known, for its athletic prowless. It was known as the school that gave you the most "Bang for the Buck". The UI administrators are losing this title. Once it is gone, UI will be just another college in the sticks. </P>
<P>Donovan J Arnold<BR><BR></P></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>From: "Joan Opyr" <auntiestablishment@hotmail.com>
<DIV></DIV>>To: vision2020@moscow.com
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Salaries at UI
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:23:14 -0800
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<DIV></DIV>>Tom advises:
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<DIV></DIV>>>So, before you make any lame allegations, I suggest that you check
<DIV></DIV>>>into these programs.
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<DIV></DIV>>I've never been one to shy away from any allegation, limping, lame,
<DIV></DIV>>or just lying there bleeding from blunt force trauma. If, as seems
<DIV></DIV>>to be the case, every academic program, college, and department at
<DIV></DIV>>the University of Idaho is under scrutiny, then why, of all things,
<DIV></DIV>>should we not also look at athletics? No university ever risked a
<DIV></DIV>>department's accreditation by axing an assistant football coach, but
<DIV></DIV>>this is just what the UI has done to Art by axing the Art Historian.
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<DIV></DIV>>I enjoy college sports, particularly basketball. (Remember where I
<DIV></DIV>>come from: North Carolina is to basketball as water is to fish.) I
<DIV></DIV>>like to watch a good game and cheer the home team. It's important
<DIV></DIV>>to remember, however, that the U of I does not exist simply to serve
<DIV></DIV>>as a home for the Vandals. It is first and foremost a university,
<DIV></DIV>>and, theoretically at least, it's the state's flagship institution.
<DIV></DIV>>Well, the ship is going down. It's time to stop bailing water and
<DIV></DIV>>start humming Nearer My God to Thee. The question is, when the
<DIV></DIV>>University of Idaho is finally broken in half and resting on the
<DIV></DIV>>silt, will any of us look up at the waves crashing over our heads
<DIV></DIV>>and say, "At least football, basketball, and golf were saved. Boy,
<DIV></DIV>>if they'd sunk, too, that *would* have been a disaster."
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<DIV></DIV>>Sure, there are schools aplenty with great teams and no academic
<DIV></DIV>>reputation, but do we want to be one of them? Do we want our
<DIV></DIV>>degrees to be worthless though our jerseys are great? Where would
<DIV></DIV>>you rather get your bachelor's, The University of Virginia or The
<DIV></DIV>>University of Nevada at Reno? Harvard or Clemson? Of course, this
<DIV></DIV>>might be a false choice. We're not doing well on either front.
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<DIV></DIV>>As for UI coaches and players past going on to better things, well,
<DIV></DIV>>as the Boss once sang, "Glory days, they'll pass you by."
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<DIV></DIV>>Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
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