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Holiday Break

December 21, 2011, 4:39 pm

By Gabriela Montell

On Hiring is taking its annual holiday break. We’ll be back on January 3. Happy holidays, everyone.

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  • jbarman

    Quick…name one notable recent athlete or achievement by any athletic team from Rutgers, Oregon State, South Florida, Maryland, or Colorado.

  • profmomof1

    Think of all the research grants with overhead those 256 assistant professors and 132 full professors might have brought in; and the greater number of students who might have been attracted to this university with all the additional courses and programs that could have been offered, the additional advising, undergraduate research opportunities, and thesis supervision that could have been available. Taking away from your primary mission to try to get rich and famous through sports is a knuckleheaded way for a university to behave.

  • tlnorth

    Maryland did with the Women’s NCAA Division 1 Basketball championship in 2006. Rutgers was runner-up in 2007.

  • lslerner

    If universities so badly wan winning sports teams (especially in football and basketball) why the heck don’t they simply buy big-league franchises? It would be cheaper in the long run and probably more reliable, and it would end the fiction that college athletes are students.

  • old nassau’67

    Today’s irony: Two articles above this one is an article about the merger of Rutgers-Camden with Rowan University, opposed by the RC faculty because “Opponents feared that the loss of the Rutgers name would lead to the loss of prominent faculty members and potential students.”  Rutgers has already become an appendage to another another Division I football program.

  • gharbisonne

    Interesting, looking at the big table, that it’s the east and west coast universities that massively subsidize sports, whereas midwest and southern conferences are quite frugal. Very much counter to stereotypes.

  • pianiste

    If, however, one clicks the graphic to “Government support” (“state, municipal, federal and other government appropriations made in support of the operations of intercollegiate athletics”), the University of Florida–the first school to win two BSC national championships, and the school to give us, for better or worse, the great proselytizing QB, Tim Tebow–is in a class by itself. Florida took in almost $2 million in “Government support.” In second place is Oklahoma State. Stillwater, last time I checked, is on neither the East nor West Coast. Tied for third are Oregon and Oregon State, universities in a West Coast state, but Eugene and Corvallis are hardly what one thinks of as coastal. (Re the “U of O”: Apparently Phil Knight’s Nike riches don’t cover the tab, which includes about two hundred football uniform variations–all of them, by the way, really, really ugly.)

  • 11266232

    And, proportionately, the matter will be even worse at smaller Division 1 and all Division 2 schools where opportunities for broadcast revenues are nil, product endorsements nonexistent, postseason play is a major financial loss, etc..  Generally, students haven’t a clue and no voice/vote, even though they see the dismal prospect of crushing debt loads, more itinerant faculty, and staff who fear the gutting of retirement programs.  Where are all the so-called ‘boosters’?

  • rock_in_the_road

    Athletics and academics need to be separated on the college level.

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