...if you were a former Rutgers male swimmer?
Seems they can't afford their men's swim team*, but they are able to forgive $100,000 of the football coach’s interest-free home loan. Read more here.
That can't be! They hired an athletic director who was going to put a stop to wasteful spending, right?
When Rutgers hired Tim Pernetti as athletic director in February 2009, the school made it one of his priorities to shrink the university’s support for sports. His contract provides for a $10,000 bonus in any year when the subsidy doesn’t increase and the amount also falls as a percentage of the athletic budget. Pernetti, a 40-year-old native of Wyckoff, New Jersey, has never earned the bonus, said University spokesman E.J. Miranda.
Oops!
This year's bloated football roster lists 113 athletes.
The staff numbers? You won't believe it!
Here's the breakdown:
Football Coaches - 13
Strength/Conditioning/Nutrition - 4
Trainers - 3
Video/Equipment - 5
Administration/Operations - 12
Academic Support - 11
Recruiting - 3
That's right, folks. It takes 51 people to run the 113-player Rutgers football squad.
Moreover, the subsidies to sports aren’t likely to pay off for Rutgers, says Catherine Lugg, a professor in the graduate school of education.
“We’re told that at some day in the future we will see the pots of gold made by football,” Lugg said in an interview. “When someone says that, I say ‘Yeah, and I’d like a pony for Christmas.’ It’s just not going to happen.”
Nothing new there, right? Athletic directors often categorize sports as "revenue" and "non-revenue".
It's hard to understand their math, though.
How is it the revenue sports end up further in the red than the non-revenue ones?
On the subject of foosball, we still have openings for this year's Texas Swimming fantasy football league.
It's free to join. Yahoo! League ID# is 134116, League Name is Texas Swimming, Password is titleixsux, and League URL is http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/texasswimming
League Champions:
2005 - dirtybuttcrackheads
2006 - dirtybuttcrackheads
2007 - The Slum Lords
2008 - YouAllSuck-JustQuit
2009 - YouAllSuck-JustQuit
2010 - sugar hiccups
Edited 8/18: League had been showing "full". Fixed settings and still have room for seven (7) teams. If you tried earlier to join league and couldn't, please try again.
*They couldn't have been cut due to Title IX quotas, could they?
"on the subject of foosball,"...? tell me, what country school did you go to?? haha...which reminds me,,,haven't played foosEball in ages...
ReplyDeleteYour league is full
ReplyDeletemake sure you're not going into last year's.
ReplyDeletejust checked and this year's league only shows five teams. can take up to seven (7) more.
when's your new pool going to be finished?
just checked and problem was slots were being held for teams that hadn't yet renewed.
ReplyDeleteopened up league for more teams
that will still give last year's teams a shot to renew and allow other teams in.
thanks for the heads up!
see ya,
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Rutgers swimmers should be blaming Title IX, nor should you. There would be no Title IX problem if it weren't for the sacrosanct status of football. Do away with that one sport and every Title IX problem disappears. If yuou want the full story about Rutgers, by the way, read this book, which I acquired and edited for the Penn State Press when I was its director: http://www.psupress.org/news/pdf/Dowling_PR.pdf.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I am a former Princeton U. swimmer, Class of '65, now living in Frisco, TX, and swimming in local masters competitions, ten already this year.
title ix enforcement is the problem. title ix wsa supposed to be about opportunities. everyone with half a brain supports that concept. unfortunately, greed took over and equal opportunities just wasn't enough for some. enter that dirty word: proportionality.
ReplyDeleteproportionality makes title ix a quota system. it's un-american. it's un-texan. it's no longer about equal opportunity, is it?
if y'all don't get that, i think i know the problem. please refer to the 7-31-11 quote of the day from thomas jefferson:
he who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
rather than add women's opportunities, school cut men's sports. y'all with me here?
i hope so. how could anyone in their right mind argue that FACT!?!?!?!
as far as football goes, schools that are deep in the red ink shouldn't carry the kind of numbers (athletes & staff) they're carrying.
does that mean they should drop football? absolutely not. instead, they should stop spending wildly - or find another revenue source that doesn't damage the entire university.
by the way, they should return the men's swim team to varsity status.
when you see how much they're spending on football, it's obvious the men weren't dropped due to money issues. they're throwing more money at third-stringers (and their coaches) than men's swimming would cost.
that pool is still operating and a coach is running the women's team. it wouldn't take much out of their athletic budget to field a men's team, would it?
what's the real reason they don't want to bring back the men?
simple: bringing back men would cause title ix lawyers to salivate uncontrollably, as another quota-system lawsuit would be headed for the courts...
p.s. i'm glad you had an opportunity to swim in college, sandy.
ReplyDeletewhat would you say to the thousands of young men who didn't (or won't) have that same opportunity?
do you think they should go the 'dump football' route?
Wow, I think a Hall of Fame designation is due...You are exactly corect..
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