Public univ. promise the selfless pursuit - common good

[Water Pony]

USAToday

"While disconcerting, this might be fine if these programs got to where they are purely on football merit. After all, when a company becomes king of its industry it's usually because it has provided the most in-demand product at the lowest cost. But state-school football programs are not companies winning or losing in a free market. No, public institutions dominate big-time football because, relative to private schools, they are cheap and have huge student bodies - not as a result of excellence, but massive state and local subsidies."

In summary, privates (with a few exceptions, e.g. ND, USC, Stanford, BC, Duke, NW, Vanderbilt, etc.) are working at a huge disadvantage.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2 ... s/1720203/

[Hoop Fan]

so true. Loved how UTs prez was in front of the Supreme Court several weeks ago defending affirmative action quotas, meanwhile his AD is out trying to monopolize college athletics.

[Water Pony]

Yes, the deck is stacked in favor of the land grant universities, while being tax payer supported, at the expense of private schools and those who emphasize academics for the most part.