The ambitions of Silo Tech Athletics Machine (sometimes known as SDSU at Brookings, SD) and aspirations only limited by the capablility of the sports department there to con SD legislators and mulct sports activitie fees from cowed students. So, it wants to move up in athletic stature and play in a new league of somekind. I really don't pay too much attention to sports and am still pissed off at being forced to contribute to intercollegiate athletic programs which I almost never cared to watch in person or on TV.
I am also pissed at all the money we are borrowing to help son pay the miserable athletic portion of the SD Tech activitiy fees. And, also pissed at the money my daughter had to borrow to pay for wretched athletics at Silo Tech. Jocks can all dive off the high board on the shallow end of the pool as far as I am concerned..just as long as they pay for their own suiciide.
It is time for a referred measure in SD banning the SD REgents and the SD colleges and Universities in their systems from requiring any registered student of any kind to pay athletic fees as part of the required fees for attending an education institution a part of the Regent's system.
I think the colleges and universities will find that a very significant percentage of their students don't give a flying ratf**k for their jock programs. Then they can roll they system back to good intramural programs that give more students to participate in exercise programs and sports they can play for the rest of their lives...which pretty much eliminates football and basketball.
I must confess as a former student of USD at Vermillion, SD, I have half-watched the last games to be played between USD and SUSD (also known as Silo Tech) . Silo Tech Jackrabbit females (edited ou "femaless"..must be Freudian slipknot) beat the Coyote females by about 3 points in the last few seconds of the game. The Male Jackrabbits and Male Coyotes are now playing. Don't know what the score is ..about 10 minutes ago Coyotes were ahead.
Much ado about nothing. But for some who elevate college sports to a mind-numbing level of deification, this is the end of an era or at least many years of mutual humbug.
Incidentally, one of the current hot teeshirts at USD has "BEAT STATE" on the front and on the back "NOT YOUR WIFE". A kind of nasty jab at a Silo Tech jock administrator who is alleged to have an alcohol problem and a related attraction to spousal abuse which has him in some trouble with law enforcement.
One or two more chapters in the history of excess in athletics.
Incidentally, in the final game played in a regular season between the USD Coyote Males and the SUSD Jackrabbit male BB teams ended with USD Coyotes winning 78 to 63. KELO TV hyping it as "End of an Era".
Feb 28, 2004..."May they rot in Pieces"...
Stay tuned to a weblog near you ...even when the Blogger is ranting on a category of behavior he truly detests. ))))))))) Doug Wiken
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