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To each his own. That’s a pretty dumb attitude, imo. There are a lot of terrific students coming from SEC schools.

You’re confusing issues. I simply pointed out that football success can lead to an increase in unrestricted giving. Your claim was football giving stays within football. That’s a claim, but not a certainty. I’m not debating spending on football to build football-specific giving. As for...

You have to be careful with retrospective justification. The investment in Al Golden didn’t turn out so well.

The donation analysis is complex, because you have to address what is marginally impacted, and the overall pool is driven by factors that can cloud efforts to identify the marginal impact. There are rich old alumni who will donate eventually. Markets go up and down, impacting donations in many...

What an awful series lf logical fails. Way to assume your conclusion. Let’s just agree this is a stupid argument in your part. You have no basis to assert this, and no reason to think it’s true. Kids make holistic decisions on where to go to college based on lots of factors, and social...

This is bad logic. The question is whether for schools for which football is or has been important, football outcomes impact donations or applications. It’s pointless to observe that there are schools where other factors drive these things. Of course there are. That’s irrelevant. No one...

Correct. The President is the chief fundraiser and brand manager, not chief academic. Also, it’s insane that UM b\views Blake‘s job as fundraising. That’s a nice to have, but there is a development arm, and a President to shake the tree. James’s primary job is give them something to sell...

Descendent of Cortez?

The point the U needs to appreciate is if they don’t get football right, their President will be on TV being asked about football. If that isn’t a reason to change the AD ... they ain’t thinking clearly.