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This just shows that Jim Taricani presented a completely 1-sided piece to hurt public perception of the URI hoops team. Any shitty journalist can do what he did, and not tell the other side of the story that EVERY state's highest paid public employee is either the football or basketball coach at the state University.
Taricani is a shitty, corner cutting excuse of journalist.
Taricani is a shitty, corner cutting excuse of journalist.
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The only counterpoint I see to this is that other New England states are paying educators more with the exception of CT (national basketball team that generates revenue to support the coach) and NH where they hAve a perennially strong hockey team.
However, those educators are all in areas that are not offered by the state university in RI (unfortunately because I could probably saved some cash if URI had a law school)
However, those educators are all in areas that are not offered by the state university in RI (unfortunately because I could probably saved some cash if URI had a law school)
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Watch WPRI for a slam piece on Dr. Dooley's travels.
They've been hyping it all week.
They've been hyping it all week.
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you mean the one that the Projo already did a story on?
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They're supposedly including other RI Administrators, too.
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Big whoop .... college administrators travel all the time.
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rhodylaw.....VT, NH, NY, Maine and Massachusetts do not have big-time college sports at their state universities. It's not our fault their teams suck. UMass has a medical school, Rhode Island does not.
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I think Nevada having the Med. School Plastic Surgeon as the highest paid is priceless!
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I do wonder why Dooley is teaching a course at Montana State. But I think the Dan Doyle story is a lot more valid than Where's Dooley?
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A picture is worth a 1,000 words. That picture should be the response to every future article or mention of RI's highest paid state employee. It succinctly says "go back in your hole".
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100% agree '72.
I don't know why, but that Taricani story during the season that URI was on a run still pisses me off to this day!
I don't know why, but that Taricani story during the season that URI was on a run still pisses me off to this day!
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I always love when these stories come out.
When are they going to do one that has the amount of money that coach directly brings into the university...which benefits EVERYONE associated with that school. I'd love to see the ROI or cost/benefit for all of those positions.
I literally despise and hate people who look down upon athletics.
When are they going to do one that has the amount of money that coach directly brings into the university...which benefits EVERYONE associated with that school. I'd love to see the ROI or cost/benefit for all of those positions.
I literally despise and hate people who look down upon athletics.
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Forbes just did one on Alabama yesterdayBlue Man wrote: When are they going to do one that has the amount of money that coach directly brings into the university...which benefits EVERYONE associated with that school. I'd love to see the ROI or cost/benefit for all of those positions.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/magic-nick ... 22258.html
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Most of the academic studies I've seen suggest that unless you have something like a consistently powerful basketball program - think UConn or Duke - or a good BCS-level football program, athletics are a net loss when it comes to spending. It's kind of similar to pro sports, in that the efficiency of the spending is the real issue. For the $X million it takes to build a successful program, or for a new pro stadium, that money would almost assuredly be better spent on something like small business loans or just lowering tuition.Blue Man wrote:I always love when these stories come out.
When are they going to do one that has the amount of money that coach directly brings into the university...which benefits EVERYONE associated with that school. I'd love to see the ROI or cost/benefit for all of those positions.
I literally despise and hate people who look down upon athletics.
Of course though, there are other reasons why you would want a prestige program besides the bottom line, and athletics do contribute some economic value back normally, as opposed to, say, funding a ton of theater programs that have no chance of making their money back.
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SGreen, making small business loans might work in other states. But as Rhode Island has shown (38 Studio's) they should probably keep spending the money on Athletics.
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Well if I had to do it over, I think I would look at a big time football school. Maybe Texas A&M or a Pac10 school.
BTW, I talked to a person who works for my company and lives in Virginia and whose daughter goes to JMU. JMU is increasing enrollment by 1,000 each year.
BTW, I talked to a person who works for my company and lives in Virginia and whose daughter goes to JMU. JMU is increasing enrollment by 1,000 each year.
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Not to get too deep into politics on here, but I think one of the bigger issues with 38 Studios is that it wasn't much of a "small business" loan. It was also clear that state officials approving that loan probably couldn't tell a PS3 from a 360 from a Wonderswan, Commodore 64 and Virtual Boy, and approved a large outlay of cash for a private business in an industry with a ridiculously high fail rate. That lump of cash would have been better served spread around to X actual small Rhode Island businesses.URIGONZO wrote:SGreen, making small business loans might work in other states. But as Rhode Island has shown (38 Studio's) they should probably keep spending the money on Athletics.
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