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Giving players cars, lodging, no-shows jobs, tutors and ghost writers for college classes. That is all well and good. But erecting a Boys Club on campus for football players shows how few fucks Clemson gives.

I was a little surprised. I would have thought that the Florida schools, or Texas schools or anyone in the SEC or maybe Oregon would have beat them to this point.

That's because we weren't using the right guy for jet sweeps.

We're approaching the national tipping point for collegiate athletics arms race, and there's a good chance this will be remembered as crossing that line.

And believe me, when the backlash hits, it is going to get nasty

I heard there will be a banner in here with the quote "I don't know what my punter was thinking, I didn't tell him to do that!"

This seems to be getting out of hand.

If this is the direction college sports is going to go, maybe we need to separate them from our university system.

Also up for analysis is University of Maryland's proposed $150 million dollar athletics complex.

All of this is happening at the same time our elected officials are talking about how expensive a college education is. Do you think that maybe the money isn't being well-spent? Oh, I forgot. It brings in donations. Yet somehow tuition is going up faster than it ever has in the past. Someone isn't doing the math.

I'm not in the pay the players camp (at least not in the sense that some are, I support affordable stipends). But, throwing money away like this is hard to swallow. My argument has always been that the revenue sports are needed to fund the rest of the athletic department. But, having 55M basically used as a recruiting tool for football proves that at least some programs have excess money. The source of the money also becomes interesting.

Edit: after reading more thoroughly, I see that the recreational amenities are only a small portion of the whole facility. I have less problem with it now, but still feel like the recreational perks should at least be available to all the collegiate athletes.

For a public university to drop this kind of $$ for amenities exclusively for a very small portion of their student body is not a good look IMO.

I understand recruiting, but I would have a real problem if VT was doing this.

I guess you didn't read the fine print of the plan. The woman's vollyball and soccer teams are allowed to serve drinks at the fully operational hooters that they have attached to this complex.

I hope they add an alternate route to the ground floor, like a fireman's pole or a curly slide.

Lived on campus all 4 years (Thomas then 3 years in East AJ, pre-renovations). For a socially inept engineer like myself, I shudder to think what 4 years of being able to hole away in an apartment would have been like.

Got six bites eeling on Sunday, landed a 33" and a 44", lost another big fish and just flat missed the others. Ran into a beehive of terns on acres of schoolies on the way back and caught them until we had to run on in. The 44 weighed about 35lbs on a hand held scale. Not as big as they often run on eels, but nice fish nonetheless. Cold nights seemed to activate/move them down into our part of the Bay, but the warm up may just stop that in a hurry. I promised myself that if we got one over 40 lbs I would learn to use imgr, but alas. Did send pics to French, but he was out getting his own big striper. Nice fish, Jonathan!!

Yeah it's moreso that they have other needs and are choosing to build unnecessary things instead. I personally would always choose to live off campus, I lived essentially across the street, in a great place, for my last three years.