[Vision2020] How Low is Too Low for the UI to Stoop for Athletics?

[Saundra Lund]

If you -- like I -- thought the UI had the ethics, integrity, and wisdom to
*not* actively recruit AND give a full ride scholarship to a dirtbag
expelled from another university for sexual misconduct, you -- like I --
would be sadly mistaken.

 

If that's not bad enough, the piece of crap responsible for that genius
decision is still Men's Head Basketball Coach at the UI -- Don Verlin.
Unbelievable.  Really, UI?!?!  Disgusting.

 

And, the piece of crap is paid $133,000 (FY2010) a YEAR to recruit sex
offenders to the UI.

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/17/60minutes/main20054339_page4.shtml
?tag=contentMain;contentBody

 

As for Steffan Johnson, three months after he was expelled from the
university for sexual assault, he was given a full scholarship to the
University of Idaho. 

Head coach Don Verlin told a local newspaper he recruited Johnson after
talking to the associate head coach from the University of the Pacific, Ron
Verlin, who just happens to be his twin brother.

You can read the story here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/17/60minutes/main20054339.shtml?tag=c
ontentMain;contentBody

 

Or, you can watch it here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7363066n
<http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7363066n&tag=related;photovideo>
&tag=related;photovideo

Huh - before I graduated, one of the things I did was go around to student
living groups giving presentations on date rape awareness & prevention.
Guess that's not something the UI cares about anymore - hell, I guess the
philosophy now is to pay Verlin big bucks to recruit the dirtbags and give
them a free rides.

And yet sporties wonder why those of us who value academics are upset about
the preferential treatment athletics receives.  Tenure or not, I'd just
about bet my bottom dollar on the fact that had an academic professor
knowingly & actively recruited and provided a full ride scholarship to
someone expelled from another university for sexual assault, that would be
the end of that professor's career at the UI, one way or another.

Yet, Verlin is still at the UI and is actually making more money now - his
salary in FY2009 was $117,000 and was increased to $133,000 for FY2010. . .
guess the UI pays a premium to someone who recruits athletes expelled for
sexual assault from other schools.

Really, UI?!? 

Pardon me while I go vomit . . . 

 

 

Saundra Lund

Moscow, ID

 

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.

~ Edmund Burke

 

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