Reply With QuoteThe faculty needs to **** off IMO.
Academics chime in.
Mick if you read this, please chime in regarding the faculty. You say they don't worry about athletics but they run around have to make resolutions about the coaching hire.
Sorry to be cranky but those who claim the academic side is not the problem are just plain wrong.
The faculty needs to **** off IMO.
2002: last time CU finished the season ranked
2005: last winning season
2007: last bowl game
Can't stand it!
I wonder if the faculty would be willing to pass a resolution stating that they would be willing to spend time with and help struggling football players maintain a higher GPA
Faculty resolutions at universities generally amount to somethng similar to that smoldering manure pile in the state to the northeast of Colorado. What percentage of the CU faculty attend football games?
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seriously, what else are they going to say? Hire a guy who doesn't give a crap about the classroom? i repeat my opinion that the BFA has very little actual power. i don't think it's nearly the issue that people think it is....a convenient, all-purpose scapegoat mostly. frankly, most faculty are WAY more concerned with themselves to have any real purpose to undermine football at CU. this seems like more smoke than fire to me.Originally Posted by BlackNGold
but, i can tell that most of you like the "evil, all-powerful" faculty angle. if you think the faculty at Texas or Florida are all big football fans and it's somehow diff at CU....I think you are very mistaken.
Last edited by Mick Ronson; 11-24-2010 at 05:01 PM.
Thank you!
**** em! Hire a guy who wants to win and bring back prestige to CU. Academics are important but as the last 5 years have showed, winning is what a coach is hired to do.
I didn't think the article read all that bad. Plus what is a faculty resolution going to do anyway? Seems like a bunch of nothing to me.
Not a problem, what football coach isn't "for academics". This is like the politician that is "for schools". No one is going to come out and say they are not for academics. Just like no politician will say they aren't for education.
When the time comes though, they need to focus on football just like the politico will cut funding for schools if it means good press on a tax break.
It's all talk either way. If the team is winning and going to championship games no one will care if they have a low GPA. It is on the players to realize that they can get educated will taking their shot at the NFL.
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i'd also like to beg off on being the token, "speak for the faculty" person at AB. i realize that i've offered my opinion and sometimes inside info on these matters of my own volition much of the time.
i just want to read and post. not be the spokesperson for some unofficial perspective. i just think there are times that if someone outside your profession started telling you all about how to do your job or what it means or how it could be done better....you'd probably respond as well. i realize most people went to CU or college here and imagine that affords them insight into how a university actually works.....but that's sort of like saying because you find your gate and fly to O'Hare on a plane that you know how to fly one.
jmo.
How about they just don't say anything at all. It comes off as they are trying to stick their nose in something when to be honest we haven't seen a lot of support from the faculty in the papers or media for the team and the program in general over the years.
Well said Mick
Asking college students to pay attention to academics.......the unabashed nerve of these people.
****'em they should be going out of their way to help student athletes not just football players but all athletes.
GO BUFFS
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