(09-05-2020 04:59 AM)bubbadog57 Wrote: To economically "boycott" our college now is short sided and foolish. I gave more this year than before.
Knowing Katherine Rowe and several members of her staff and the Board of Visitors, some of the latter for decades, I am convinced
our alma mater is in good and caring hands. Decisions are not made lightly.
People with good and caring hands, who do not make decisions lightly, can make short-sighted and foolish decisions. They can be WRONG. Every decision, no matter the intention, is not necessarily correct.
You have the right to cheerlead about the good intentions of the Administrators currently making the decisions at a 300 year old institution that has withstood the test of time, until now.
I have the right to question whether the decisions are “right” or “wrong”.
The policy of the current Adminstrators is to elevate men’s hoops, get a ticket to the Dance, and write W&M’s name on a dance card operated by a corrupt and ineffective NCAA.
As a side note, how much of W&M’s athletic funding issues are tied to the requirements of the corrupt and ineffective NCAA? Why are we not publicly leading the charge to change that organization? Why are we not getting together with like-minded schools, exit the NCAA, and set up an intercollegiate sports system that doesn’t bankrupt athletics departments? Etc., etc., etc.... This is the core of the issue, IMO, and we are not BOLD in this regard, and the GOLD we bleed is currency.
Returning to the issue at hand, the decision to elevate men’s hoops has (1) resulted in the firing of Tony Shaver, (2) renovation of the Hall with apparent diminished capacity to apparently create a rise in ticket prices due to a demand/supply formulas, and (3) the termination of seven sports directly resulting in the alienation/divorce of thousands of fellow alumni.
This is carnage. This is self-executed carnage. For one sport.
It is not defensible.
I have been on this soap box for years. Why? Because I pay attention, and until now, God has blessed me with a brain that can cut through BS. So while you cheerlead, some of us are trying to save the school from its Administrators’ short-sighted and foolish decisions. The only tool we have is the same tool Administrators crave ... GOLD .... money.
This ship is heading over the falls. It must change course.