Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
President Smatresk ($300K) most certainly will NOT cut Division 1 sports. Sports is UNLV's #1 priority. Basketball coach makes $1M/yr. Football Coach makes $450K. Athletic director makes $280K. FF's eat your hearts out!
Smatresk knows that if he eliminates BIG sports popular support for his institution would wane. Legislators might then decide that UNLV is not worth funding at all. Smatresk is a politician. He'll do whatever it takes to build and maintain a constituency large enough to protect his own sinecure.
Communications is a complete joke. The program exists only to provide academic cover to jocks who are not dumb enough to qualify for that remedial University Studies undegree program. Any degree program unusually popular among jocks should be summarily abolished.
Won't happen. In fact, Smatresk will EXPAND jock programs.
What are jocks supposed to major in? Nuclear Physics? Smatresk needs to give jocks every possible opportunity to coast through their four years of NCAA eligibility. It looks really bad when jocks are concentrated in one or two degree programs which nobody can describe. He needs to give them *plenty* of choices. Basketweaving. X Studies. Sociology. Kinesiology. Management. X Education. Sports Counseling. Blah blah blah. Anything you can think of which sounds cerebral and sophisticated but in reality has no standards and wouldn't challenge a third grader.
The numerous nonjocks in these programs are just wasting their parents' (and taxpayers) money. The Athletic Department appreciates it, though. It allows Smatresk to defend them as low cost.
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