Fine with me.
It will be fun to see what they do to make up the lost revenue. Nothing must get between the academic mind and its cushy sinecure.
I would expect that - if football is eliminated - the financial slack will be taken up by some kind of program making undergraduates available for social purposes to wealthy individuals who are willing to make a significant contribution to the University Fund.
The program would be "gender neutral" of course. At least on paper.
“the financial slack will be taken up by some kind of program making undergraduates available for social purposes to wealthy individuals who are willing to make a significant contribution to the University Fund.”
Private enterprise has already usurped that idea, though the significant contributions go to the entrepreneurs themselves, rather than to the university.
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I take your point about Marxist profs, who have been oppressing campuses since Dinesh D'Souza and Laura Ingraham were fighting the Dartmouth Marxist profs in the early 80's at the Dartmouth Review. But the bad news is, they'll take a lot of our best colleges with them when they implode, if they do.
I'm not worried about Lewis and Clark, or Sul Ross, or Fort Valley State or Regis College. But the premier campuses, liberal-arts colleges and big land-grant state operations, will be vulnerable to revolutionism because of their drifts and shoals of tenured Marxists.
Devious mind! ...But very funny!