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Originally Posted by RWebb
Yes, our priorities are definitely out of whack when a football coach makes 10 or 20 times what a good professor makes. A university has two roles -- it creates knowledge and it disseminates knowledge. Things are out of whack when the football tail wags the dog. I don't know how to fix it either.
Penn State is still an agricultural university. Those professors had jobs before he showed up.
Please stop posting garbage without knowledge.
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BTW - he has retained a criminal atty - may not mean anything at this stage.
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Originally Posted by Wilhelm
Who cares what the football stadium holds? And most football players who graduate only do so by the fact that most are in some major that requires almost no work. And at many Universities there is considerable pressure on Profs to give football players "passing grades" for eligibility. If Penn State endowment money had been spent on hiring top notch Professors instead of a Football coach, maybe Penn State would rank with Cal Tech or MIT. You say Professors should thank Joe Paterno for their jobs ???? I say again, priorities are out of whack at many Universities.
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Gawd you people are clueless.