“Bill Snyder Family Stadium” sounds a bit awkward. But the new name for Kansas State University’s football stadium, which will be officially announced at Saturday’s game, reflects the affection so many people have for KSU’s retiring coach. Not only did Snyder transform the Wildcats from an athletic embarrassment to a national power, he created a sense of family both for players and fans.
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Snyder and family did a phenomenal job in turning K-State’s football program around. The football stadium name change is a no-brainer. It is somewhat unfortunate that his career there has to end on a losing season because it is not indicative of how most of the seasons ended under his leadership.
I don’t really care for College Sports. Never saw the acedemic value in paying somebody millions to coach a football team.
Maybe I’m different.
Joe you’re right on. I like to watch KU basketball but I know that in college sports academic excellence is the exception, not the norm. Well at least we don’t have career coaches trying to teach at the college level, do we?
Thanks for that remarkable insight, Joe. Especially since it comes in a forum discussing HONORS for a man who not only turned around a college football team, but pretty much the entire college. Whether or not you believe it, that’s exactly what happened at K-State… I was there and I lived it. So take your crap someplace else.
And if you’re going to mention “acedemic value” maybe you ought to at least spell “academic” correctly?
Perhaps Joe’s comments reveal a lot about himself. I think he has good self analysis. He is diffrent. He doesn’t see the big picture. A college level coach drawing a huge salary may seem to be misplace priorities, but it isn’t. This man restored prestige to the university. When the allumni feel a sense of pride and comes beck to the school many times every year for games, they come with checkbook in hand. This man was responsible for raising millions of dollars for KSU. I think this justifies his salary. The money raised is put to good use for the school. The same goes for somebody like Bill Self at KU. If you want to be successful, you have to have qualified people and pay them accordingly.
Bill Snyder Family Stadium. Please. This is the same Bill Snyder who said in published reports he didn’t know the dates of his children’s birthday because he was so consumed with coaching.
If Sports brings prestige and encourages alumini to empty their pocket books for a University so they can have bragging rights on a good football team, then that is pretty sad.
What every happen to celebrating the academics of the university?
No! I do not see the big picture in college sports, where people make millions off of non-paid athletes, except for having drunken, orgy sex parties.
Give me a break.I guess Harvard, MIT, CalTec, and the rest need a Bill Snyder. I guess I’m out of touch, because I never even knew who the guy or even cared for was.
Just like the KU football couch.
I hope some day soon, Mr. Williams can write a coherent comment… I tried and tried to decipher that last one, but it was so full of misspelled words and disjointed sentences i finally just gave up.
For the record, Joe, I never said athletic success SHOULD bring prestige to a university. But it sure DOES seem to help. That’s the real world. Deal with it.
Joe W., forget the spelling because I got the point perfectly.I agree with you. Good for Mr.What’s his name for being a great guy and winning coach, but to tie a schools quality to football is pretty sad.Maybe what they (the sports cult) build athletic universities where they can do their own thing.Sports has become too much of a religion with some people, and it’s time we quit pretending that most sports people give two hoots about academics.There, now check my spelling someone.Why aren’t our best proffesors celibrated?
Ok Scott, so you are going to nitpick one or two words that are mispelled. Whenever somebody makes a comment on grammer or spelling, then I know they have no aurgument.
Just like your grammer. You forgot to capitalize your “i”, and you capitalized “SHOULD” and “DOES”, that’s a no-no.
I guess I can’t understand what you are saying. :rolleyes:
If you like sports and want to worship coaches, then fine. More power to you.
Damn I’ve got one of those disjointed sentences in there.Now nobody will understand any of it. I give up.
Joe,If you claim to not know much about the athletic situation at KSU, how do you know enough to make a crack about the KU football team?You wrote that its pretty sad that that it takes a good football team to have bragging rights and give money. I didn’t make the rules, but that is the way it works. And the money they give goes to support those academic endeavors for which you speak. Do you support banishing high school athletics? The drain money away from the classroom.
Brown. Yes I do. I do not think the High School Sports is necessary and probably shouldn’t be done at all. This is my opinion and I know I’m in the minority on this one.
High School Sports, especially in small towns and the rural areas, are for entertainment for the people of that area. You pull kids out of class so you can bus them to a game? They need to be in class learning.
KU football coach? Yeah I don’t know who he is, except sometimes when he is on the news. He is the obese guy with a neck that is about to explode right? I don’t know.
Sports is a business and should be left up to professional leagues, unless you are doing it for fun, then its cool, but I’ll be damn to have to pay my tax dollars for other peoples entertainment.
Yeah! People are KU and KSU fans, but they never went to those universities.
Joe,You say you don’t want your tax dollars supporting their entertainment. It is really the other way around. Their entertainment is supporting your tax dollars. I’ll paint the picture for you. Imagine a football stadium on a fall afternoon. 50,000+ people on hand, all paying $40-$60 per seat. Do the math. They buy refreshments from a vendor who has paid huge money to the university for the right to sell to those fans. Hospitality tents erected by corprate donors for their clients. College athletics is a money maker.
Joe Williams is a dumbass
total posts 12thread: IRELLEVANTsubject: IRELLEVANTCollege athletics: Appeal to antiquated hierarchical orders and tribalism.Societal benefit: negligiblecultural benefit: negligibleIntellectual benefit: noneConclusion:Thread and college athletics are a waste of resources.-end of line-