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

[Kris Freitag]

Thanks Sandra, my sentiments exactly. It really makes one fell ill.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Saundra Lund 
  To: 'Moscow Vision 2020' 
  Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 1:20 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] How Low is Too Low for the UI to Stoop for Athletics?


  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=contentMain;contentBody

   

  Or, you can watch it here:

  http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7363066n&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

   

  ***** Original material contained herein is Copyright 2011 through life plus 70 years, Saundra Lund.  Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside the Vision 2020 forum without the express written permission of the author.*****

   

   



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