Mick Ronson
Well-Known Member
Hasn't Mick said numerous times the academic hate for football is seriously overblown?
yes. and it's not like at UT or NU that all the faculty are big football fans who grease the wheels in the classroom. they are similarly indifferent.
As "research faculty" now myself, I can confirm this. I know there are some who think that way but they are definitely in the minority, at least inasmuch as I've observed. Honestly, I think that most faculty members just don't care because they're too busy dealing with grant writing and teaching. My boss doesn't even give 2 $hits about the day to day operation of his own lab so I don't think football is even on his radar.
this.
i've been a grad student or worked at CU since 1998. i can only remember two times in those 12 years EVER hearing a faculty member discuss the football team or D-1 athletics of their own account. the faculty are largely indifferent. i bet more than half of faculty i know wouldn't be able to name the conference we were in....until recent move to the Pac news. this idea that the "academic side" is a militant, powerful, single-minded force seeking to undermine football at CU is inaccurate. it's also inaccurate to conflate the faculty with the administration at CU, another easy and somewhat intellectually lazy scapegoating mechanism i see around here too often. the people who do the day to day classroom work and instruction at CU are not the ones to blame for the state of CU football....however easy it may be to think so.
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