(10-31-2014 06:57 PM)wolverineeagle Wrote: (10-31-2014 03:02 PM)ljmhurons Wrote: Too many people find their identity in the success of a football team. They're immature and embarassing.
While almost every school in the nation has to subsidize it's athletic department, uofm is at worst breaking even.
I couldn't believe the heat he took over the head shot his QB took a few weeks ago. He had nothing to do with it or the managment of the player's immediate well being. It's amazing how much childish hatred it revealed.
Observe this situation and it will become readily apparent why so much cheating goes on in college sports.
UM is awash in cash...
And Brandon raised the price of season tickets on UofM students.
To me, Brandon is the poster (whatever) of all that is wrong with American society.
Pure greed. How much is enough for UofM athletics? Can one have 'too much'? (not according to Brandon, I'd guess). They (UofM and others) continue to enlarge stadiums which are becoming more like monuments not athletic facilities.
Using rough numbers, UofM might have say 15K student tickets and the ticket price raise was what 100 bucks or so. That comes out to 1.5M per season. Chump change for UofM athletics (which just received a 100M gift). I'd assume the UofM athletic budget is over 100M per year.
Totally tone deaf. Brandon never got it.
Students are STAKEHOLDERS in UofM, they are not 2nd class customers* in some foreign country.
There is a book titled: "Greedy Bastards..." Brandon should get his own chapter for his chutzpah.
Some years ago I developed a trinity approach to business: There are three sets of stakeholders of a corporation: 1). Stockholders who are represented by the board of directors and management. 2). Customers who are entitled to good and services which have value and are safe if used as intended. Government and the courts are there to protect consumers. 3). Employees who are entitled to fair wages and benefits and safe working conditions. They are protected by labor unions, government and the courts.
One could argue that UofM football players are quasi-employees of the university. That is a debate in college athletics today.
Students do not fit nicely into my paradigm although I'd guess customer isn't a bad bucket to put them.