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Message: [QUOTE="crewbear742, post: 2628347, member: 7435"] Typical "How dare athletics besmirch the sacred grounds of academia! It must be put in its place!" stuff. Except this time she can complain about money - which allows her to sound more credible. Coaches get paid more than English Professors because it's a lot harder to find a good coach. Besides which, English Professors aren't all the valuable to a University in the first place. Doesn't matter how many awards they have. English Professors don't draw students. But a good athletic program will. Like it or not, students rate the quality of a school by the quality of its athletic dept. A big time athletic dept equals a big time school. The athletic dept thus becomes something of a "front porch" for the universoty in its recruiting efforts. Of course that will offend academics. But they will just have to live with it. Better to save money by cutting extraneous depts like "[insert identity group name] Studies" than cut athletics. [/QUOTE]