re: Tennessee being ripped on ESPN Radio

Well shite....

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fwiw uga ath assoc is funneling 6 mill excess revenue back into the uga gen fund over the next few years.

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Finally a poster who gets it.

UT has also funneled millions from athletics into academics over the past several years. Most financially successful athletic programs do exactly the same thing.

I think we can officially kill this meaningless thread now, until 6 more like it get started...

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bloodrunsorange is correct.

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Not really. Read what you said . . .

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fwiw uga ath assoc is funneling 6 mill excess revenue back into the uga gen fund over the next few years.

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So has UGA been cutting departments left and right the last few months?
No?
Might that have in some part to do with 6 million in excess revenue going back into the general fund?

Bloodrunsorange opines that a university's athletic budget and/or program should have no coincident responsibility to the school. I'd be surprised if such athletic-academic uncoupling is actually the situation in Knoxville. If it is, that's pathetic.

A community of philanthropists, boosters, businesses, advertisers, and taxpayers has a finite pool of resources. Neither academics nor athletics operate within a vacuum in those communities. To presume a huge portion of resources can be leeched off toward nonacademic university pursuits without an academic impact is naive. To take offense to criticism of corpulent athletic budgets in the face of draconian academic cut-backs is silly. UGA has the right approach.

UGA has the right approach.

Do you read English? This is exactly what I said UT and most other schools have done.

UT has also given millions from athletics to academics.

Next time I'll put it in Cajun-talk....yaw yaw geaux corn dog foohhbaw

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Ticket sales? Give me a fricking break you guys still had tickets available for the Alabama game last year. Way to support the program.

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You're right. We only sold 95,000 tickets to the Bama game instead of 107,000. I bet that led to almost no income from ticket sales. I'm glad you were here to point that out genius.

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Do you read English?

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Perhaps you're confused.


I believe I read this:

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UT's academic and athletic departments' funding are completely mutually exclusive.

The academic funding comes from the state, tuition, and some privately funded trusts, scholarships, etc. The athletic funding comes from boosters, ticket sales, TV contracts, etc.
What happens with one budget has absolutely zero impact on the other.

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I believe those are your words Jethro. Are they not?



You got caught in clumsy criticisms of journalists questioning spending priorities in the face of UT academic cutbacks. A UGA poster tried to bail you out. However, UGA has handled their situation differently than UT. Successes through Hope Scholarship and other academic programs not withstanding, their Football program made a point of transferring funds to its University in a formal way. It's good public relations. Maintaining that UT athletics and academics "are completely mutually exclusive" is not good PR. So cut out the mouthing and lay out some facts. With UT shutting down academic programs at the same time its Football program is spending money hand-over-fist, what monetary gifts to the University has UT Football formally made?

Kiffin has definitely been entertaining, if nothing else.

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Florida's athletic programs give millions to the academic programs.

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Again, not to beat a dead horse, but UF is not UT. Perhaps, as I said before, most of the schools including UT do this. However, it also becomes a measure of extent vs circumstance. For example, you're referring to business-as-usual UF Football gifts to academics. At the same time, is UF making significant cuts in their academic programs due to inadequate funding in the face of an expanding athletic budget? No they aren't.
Apparently Tennessee is.

The point being when a babbling UT Jethro comes to an LSU board posting feckless messages and spouting petty insults, he'd be best served at least getting his facts straight. One would surmise that if UT Football was in fact upping the donation ante toward University academics, they'd cite those increases to counter criticisms being levied. Seems that has not occurred. But again, I'm open to facts. UT spent outside of their norm for Football Staff and Facility upgrades. What coincident out-of-the-norm Football donations have they made to bolster insolvent academic programs? If none that's fine too. But don't come to an LSU board "bleeding orange" in the face of all the Kiffin crap and claim you're just like everybody else. Because at this point UT is not like everybody else.