Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
College football players absolutely SHOULD be paid. Most will never make the NFL. Many will finish their careers with painful, permanent injuries.
Most never grauduate. Those that do typically major in worthless, basketweaving programs.
How much does USC pay its football players? The front line as a whole must be worth as much as the Coach. Do you mean to tell me that the guy who takes tickets at the Coliseum gate can get paid for each game but the Trojans' star QB can't?
Hey Rebel footballer starters. This is likely your only chance to make money off your obsolescing skill. Tell Coach Hauck that you're NOT going to play unless he kickback some of his delicious $400K salary with you. What's he going to do -- recruit a Chemistry major to replace you?
Hauck gets paid to WIN. He'll cave.
Showing posts with label UNLV_football. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UNLV_football. Show all posts
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Pay UNLV Football Players
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
College football players absolutely SHOULD be paid. Most will never make the NFL. Many will finish their careers with painful, permanent injuries.
Most never grauduate. Those that do typically major in worthless, basketweaving programs.
How much does USC pay its football players? The front line as a whole must be worth as much as the Coach. Do you mean to tell me that the guy who takes tickets at the Coliseum gate can get paid for each game but the Trojans' star QB can't?
Hey Rebel footballer starters. This is likely your only chance to make money off your obsolescing skill. Tell Coach Hauck that you're NOT going to play unless he kickback some of his delicious $400K salary with you. What's he going to do -- recruit a Chemistry major to replace you?
Hauck gets paid to WIN. He'll cave.
College football players absolutely SHOULD be paid. Most will never make the NFL. Many will finish their careers with painful, permanent injuries.
Most never grauduate. Those that do typically major in worthless, basketweaving programs.
How much does USC pay its football players? The front line as a whole must be worth as much as the Coach. Do you mean to tell me that the guy who takes tickets at the Coliseum gate can get paid for each game but the Trojans' star QB can't?
Hey Rebel footballer starters. This is likely your only chance to make money off your obsolescing skill. Tell Coach Hauck that you're NOT going to play unless he kickback some of his delicious $400K salary with you. What's he going to do -- recruit a Chemistry major to replace you?
Hauck gets paid to WIN. He'll cave.
Friday, May 14, 2010
UNLV Football Coach's Night Out
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
It was a recruiting trip. How many football players have received free lap dances as an inducement to play for UNLV?
It was a recruiting trip. How many football players have received free lap dances as an inducement to play for UNLV?
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
UNLV Football Integrity: Roughing the Taxpayers
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
$280K Livengood said we have a responsibility to the integrity of the program and perception of our program.
What "integrity" is that? How do we know it was a *personal* trip? Because $400K Coach Hauck says so? No way!
The Regents -- the bozos accountable to the taxpayers for the way NSHE funds are spent -- should conduct an independent, *public* investigation.
$280K Livengood said we have a responsibility to the integrity of the program and perception of our program.
What "integrity" is that? How do we know it was a *personal* trip? Because $400K Coach Hauck says so? No way!
The Regents -- the bozos accountable to the taxpayers for the way NSHE funds are spent -- should conduct an independent, *public* investigation.
- Was Gregorak's trip/expenses charged to a UNLV AD credit card?
- Does UNLV football have any Colorado high school prospects on its recruitment list?
- Has Gregorak visited strip clubs on his previous, "official" recruiting trips, either for UNLV or Montana?
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Cry Me a Rebel River
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
[Beuerlein] will graduate this summer
I doubt it. The graduation rate for jocks is *significantly* lower than that of non-jocks.
Beuerlein is majoring in "sport management and physical education". Pre-MLB. Jockology. Not serious. The program is so ridiculous that even Smatrick can't defend it. He's going to discontinue it.
UNLV is not supposed to be a MLB farm team. Why do taxpayers continue to give scholarships to jocks who couldn't care less about education? Why do we continue to fund junk departments which give jocks academic cover? This "triumph over adversity" story must have planted by UNLV's Sport Management faculty as a way to further politicize the department and save their jobs.
[Beuerlein] will graduate this summer
I doubt it. The graduation rate for jocks is *significantly* lower than that of non-jocks.
Beuerlein is majoring in "sport management and physical education". Pre-MLB. Jockology. Not serious. The program is so ridiculous that even Smatrick can't defend it. He's going to discontinue it.
UNLV is not supposed to be a MLB farm team. Why do taxpayers continue to give scholarships to jocks who couldn't care less about education? Why do we continue to fund junk departments which give jocks academic cover? This "triumph over adversity" story must have planted by UNLV's Sport Management faculty as a way to further politicize the department and save their jobs.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Ridiculous Majors at UNLV
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
"University Studies" (AKA "jockology") is a pseudo-major which exists to give academic cover to athletes who can't get through Basketweaving 101. The program has no objective standards. Its "requirements" wouldn't challenge a third grader. Even so, most jocks who declare in it can't amass enough credits to graduate.
A few years ago USA Today noted that some huge percentage of UNLV footballers were majoring it. Very embarassing to UNLV. As a result, UNLV announced it was phasing out University Studies and replacing it with yet another faux major -- "Interdisciplinary". Same program. New name.
It's almost meaningless for jocks to declare a major since such a minor percentage of them graduate -- even after 6 years. Still, "criminal Justice"? What the heck is that? Do prison guards need 4 yr degrees, too?
Physical Education? So now the 3R's stand for reading defenses, writing rosters, and adding up runs. It's just ridiculous. Wooden was an English major. Paterno was a college dropout (though majoring in Economics).
Kinesiology? Another one of those "ology" programs which sounds sophisticated but is actually quite worthless.
Physiology, Biology, Eschatology, Etiology, etc. Serious.
Kinesiology, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, etc. Not serious.
Astrology & Numerology. The next great jock majors.
"University Studies" (AKA "jockology") is a pseudo-major which exists to give academic cover to athletes who can't get through Basketweaving 101. The program has no objective standards. Its "requirements" wouldn't challenge a third grader. Even so, most jocks who declare in it can't amass enough credits to graduate.
A few years ago USA Today noted that some huge percentage of UNLV footballers were majoring it. Very embarassing to UNLV. As a result, UNLV announced it was phasing out University Studies and replacing it with yet another faux major -- "Interdisciplinary". Same program. New name.
It's almost meaningless for jocks to declare a major since such a minor percentage of them graduate -- even after 6 years. Still, "criminal Justice"? What the heck is that? Do prison guards need 4 yr degrees, too?
Physical Education? So now the 3R's stand for reading defenses, writing rosters, and adding up runs. It's just ridiculous. Wooden was an English major. Paterno was a college dropout (though majoring in Economics).
Kinesiology? Another one of those "ology" programs which sounds sophisticated but is actually quite worthless.
Physiology, Biology, Eschatology, Etiology, etc. Serious.
Kinesiology, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, etc. Not serious.
Astrology & Numerology. The next great jock majors.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
UNLV Football Players Drafted by the NFL
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Wolfe earned a bachelor's degree in kinesiological sciences and is currently pursuing a master's degree in sports education leadership. Not serious.
Hawley majoring in Physical Education. Not serious.
The University of Nevada is not supposed to be a NFL training camp.
Wolfe earned a bachelor's degree in kinesiological sciences and is currently pursuing a master's degree in sports education leadership. Not serious.
Hawley majoring in Physical Education. Not serious.
The University of Nevada is not supposed to be a NFL training camp.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Nevada Taxpayers Making Hauck Rich
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
The trip was organized by Koeberle & Associates, a Pittsburgh-based sports and entertainment marketing agency.
Division 1 makes money for a lot of people. Hauck is making ~$450K. TV broadcast networks sell millions in advertising. Then there are all the sports marketing related firms (like Koeberle) which collect nice fees from negotiating sports/endorsement contracts, merchandising, etc. The football players (officially) work for free. They're not called "dumb jocks" for nothing.
Why do Nevada residents continue to support this abuse?
The trip was organized by Koeberle & Associates, a Pittsburgh-based sports and entertainment marketing agency.
Division 1 makes money for a lot of people. Hauck is making ~$450K. TV broadcast networks sell millions in advertising. Then there are all the sports marketing related firms (like Koeberle) which collect nice fees from negotiating sports/endorsement contracts, merchandising, etc. The football players (officially) work for free. They're not called "dumb jocks" for nothing.
Why do Nevada residents continue to support this abuse?
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
UNLV Football Players Run to Practice
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Hauck is more interested in having them run onto the field ..
None of the football players run to class. They run *out*. That is, if they bother to show up.
Brooks and Taumua are both majoring in Criminal Justice. Clausen majoring in Interdiscplinary (AKA "Jockology"). Not serious.
Hauck is more interested in having them run onto the field ..
None of the football players run to class. They run *out*. That is, if they bother to show up.
Brooks and Taumua are both majoring in Criminal Justice. Clausen majoring in Interdiscplinary (AKA "Jockology"). Not serious.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
UNLV or UNFLV?
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Big time college sports serves as an advertising vehicle for their schools. That's a reality. OK then. Let's pay D1-A football players on a scale with NFL players whose accomplishments help sell razor blades and beer. Or, maybe UNLV should just buy time on the Stupor Bowl. That might be cheaper and more effective. For that matter, why does a *public* university need to advertise for business? A State might as well just place an add in Street Sheet touting its welfare and Section 8 benefits.
A public university's faculty and ACADEMIC programs should be advertising enough.
Big time college sports serves as an advertising vehicle for their schools. That's a reality. OK then. Let's pay D1-A football players on a scale with NFL players whose accomplishments help sell razor blades and beer. Or, maybe UNLV should just buy time on the Stupor Bowl. That might be cheaper and more effective. For that matter, why does a *public* university need to advertise for business? A State might as well just place an add in Street Sheet touting its welfare and Section 8 benefits.
A public university's faculty and ACADEMIC programs should be advertising enough.
UNLV Football Makes A Profit. NOT!
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
As I've posted in RJ fora numerous times, Division 1 certainly does NOT turn a profit. In fact, Division 1 sports is a tax CONSUMER. In the current biennium the state appropriation for UNR Intercollegiate Athletics is $5.8M/yr. The corresponding appropriation for UNLV is $7.9M/yr. See AB-562 Section 17 (2009).
You're just perpetuating a big LIE spun by sports marketers.
Besides, where UNLV sports is concerned you can't really talk about black/red in a way that makes business sense. It's always fuzzy accounting. What does it mean to show a "profit" when your star "employees" are prohibited -- at least officially -- from being paid? These studies never take into account the destruction caused by Division 1. The non-existent admission standards, the junk departments maintained, the future legal class action liability for permanent brain injuries sustained during collisions, etc.
As I've posted in RJ fora numerous times, Division 1 certainly does NOT turn a profit. In fact, Division 1 sports is a tax CONSUMER. In the current biennium the state appropriation for UNR Intercollegiate Athletics is $5.8M/yr. The corresponding appropriation for UNLV is $7.9M/yr. See AB-562 Section 17 (2009).
You're just perpetuating a big LIE spun by sports marketers.
Besides, where UNLV sports is concerned you can't really talk about black/red in a way that makes business sense. It's always fuzzy accounting. What does it mean to show a "profit" when your star "employees" are prohibited -- at least officially -- from being paid? These studies never take into account the destruction caused by Division 1. The non-existent admission standards, the junk departments maintained, the future legal class action liability for permanent brain injuries sustained during collisions, etc.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Hauck's History of Recruiting Blockheads
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Last semester, the [Montana] football team had a 2.89 cumulative grade-point average. Four players earned straight-A's, and 47 of 92 players on the roster had GPAs of at least 3.0.
Here's the '09 roster of (Montana's) FB upperclassmen:
S #4 Bio major, high GPA
QB #7 Biz
LB #10 High GPA Biz
CB #11 Not listed
QB #12 math major, high GPA, HS valedictorian
QB #18 not listed
CB #21 Sociology
RB #24 Sociology
LB #25 High GPA Biz
S #31 History
RB #34 Sociology
S #36 Biz
S #38 Biz
S #39 History
DE #42 Biz
DE #47 Sociology
HB #49 high GPA Biz
DT #54 Biz
OL #66 Sociology
OC #71 Biz
OT #72 Sociology
OT #75 Sociology
OG #77 History
WR #80 Biz
WR #81 History
TE #87 Education
TE #88 Health (?)
TE #89 Biz
DE #92 Biz
DT #99 Biz
I count two or three true student-athletes.
Last semester, the [Montana] football team had a 2.89 cumulative grade-point average. Four players earned straight-A's, and 47 of 92 players on the roster had GPAs of at least 3.0.
Here's the '09 roster of (Montana's) FB upperclassmen:
S #4 Bio major, high GPA
QB #7 Biz
LB #10 High GPA Biz
CB #11 Not listed
QB #12 math major, high GPA, HS valedictorian
QB #18 not listed
CB #21 Sociology
RB #24 Sociology
LB #25 High GPA Biz
S #31 History
RB #34 Sociology
S #36 Biz
S #38 Biz
S #39 History
DE #42 Biz
DE #47 Sociology
HB #49 high GPA Biz
DT #54 Biz
OL #66 Sociology
OC #71 Biz
OT #72 Sociology
OT #75 Sociology
OG #77 History
WR #80 Biz
WR #81 History
TE #87 Education
TE #88 Health (?)
TE #89 Biz
DE #92 Biz
DT #99 Biz
I count two or three true student-athletes.
Abolish UNLV Football!
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Coach Hauck gets paid around $450,000 per year. $450K! His assistant coaches make around $125,000 per year. $125K! The Athletic Director makes around $300,000. $300K! Is UNLV a college or an NFL training camp?
Most UNLV football playes NEVER graduate. Those who do major in ridiculous programs like Basketweaving. To recruit these "student"-athletes UNLV offers them scholarships. Sports boosters offer them cash, cars, and VP jobs after graduation. Maybe you even work for one of them.
Most competitive football players are steroid freaks. Many football players suffer from painful, crippling injuries. Many end up addicted to painkillers. MRI shows that football collisions cause permanent brain injury.
As if this isn't bad enough, we pay higher taxes to support it.
No more UNLV football. Future NFL Hall of Famers have plenty of football schools OUTSIDE of Nevada to choose from. Fanatical football fans have plenty of Cable TV choices to watch.
Coach Hauck gets paid around $450,000 per year. $450K! His assistant coaches make around $125,000 per year. $125K! The Athletic Director makes around $300,000. $300K! Is UNLV a college or an NFL training camp?
Most UNLV football playes NEVER graduate. Those who do major in ridiculous programs like Basketweaving. To recruit these "student"-athletes UNLV offers them scholarships. Sports boosters offer them cash, cars, and VP jobs after graduation. Maybe you even work for one of them.
Most competitive football players are steroid freaks. Many football players suffer from painful, crippling injuries. Many end up addicted to painkillers. MRI shows that football collisions cause permanent brain injury.
As if this isn't bad enough, we pay higher taxes to support it.
No more UNLV football. Future NFL Hall of Famers have plenty of football schools OUTSIDE of Nevada to choose from. Fanatical football fans have plenty of Cable TV choices to watch.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Regents Provide Bread and Circuses
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Division 1 football is a HUGE distraction. But without football popular support for NSHE funding -- which pays Smatresk's bloated salary and gives political jobs to Democrats -- would evaporate. That's why the political hack Regents will continue to support football for as much as they can get away with.
Division 1 football is a HUGE distraction. But without football popular support for NSHE funding -- which pays Smatresk's bloated salary and gives political jobs to Democrats -- would evaporate. That's why the political hack Regents will continue to support football for as much as they can get away with.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
No More Taxpayer Supported Brain Injuries
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Dr. Robert Cantu, a Boston-area neurosurgeon [and $1,000/hr "expert" witness] said The threat of lawsuit for inappropriate care is real, but I would also like to think that enlightenment is also driving it"
This tragic case was settled for $7.5M. Nevada taxpayers fund football many times over (CCSD, UNR, UNLV, etc). The Democrat trial lawyers are in power. The permanent brain injury class action lawsuit is coming. We're going to be legally on the hook for perhaps BILLIONS of dollars.
It young men want to scramble their gray matter, we can't stop them. But we shouldn't act as *enablers*. No more public funding of football. If you want to play football enroll at Bishop Gorman or some non-NSHE football school.
Hey UNLV Athletics Boosters. Better start shredding documents, wiping your disks, deleting e-mails and calling your lawyers! You deep pockets are guilty of a lot more than just being football fanatics. You've been giving these future cerebral hemorrhages summer/permanent jobs in your firms, slipping them cash, and so forth. You've been profiting from blood money. I can't wait until the legal beagles start hitting you with Discovery Motions.
Hey Ed Bernstein types. What are you waiting for? UNLV football donors and players rosters are a public record.
Sorry, folks. Football warning labels do not provide immunization from civil liability. Just ask the tobacco companies. Separate sports and State.
Dr. Robert Cantu, a Boston-area neurosurgeon [and $1,000/hr "expert" witness] said The threat of lawsuit for inappropriate care is real, but I would also like to think that enlightenment is also driving it"
This tragic case was settled for $7.5M. Nevada taxpayers fund football many times over (CCSD, UNR, UNLV, etc). The Democrat trial lawyers are in power. The permanent brain injury class action lawsuit is coming. We're going to be legally on the hook for perhaps BILLIONS of dollars.
It young men want to scramble their gray matter, we can't stop them. But we shouldn't act as *enablers*. No more public funding of football. If you want to play football enroll at Bishop Gorman or some non-NSHE football school.
Hey UNLV Athletics Boosters. Better start shredding documents, wiping your disks, deleting e-mails and calling your lawyers! You deep pockets are guilty of a lot more than just being football fanatics. You've been giving these future cerebral hemorrhages summer/permanent jobs in your firms, slipping them cash, and so forth. You've been profiting from blood money. I can't wait until the legal beagles start hitting you with Discovery Motions.
Hey Ed Bernstein types. What are you waiting for? UNLV football donors and players rosters are a public record.
Sorry, folks. Football warning labels do not provide immunization from civil liability. Just ask the tobacco companies. Separate sports and State.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
UNLV Football Team Cram Session
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
The University of Nevada is supposed to be about producing the next generation of applied scientists, not inductees at Canton.
- DE Malo Taumua said I'm really excited about this guy coming from a good program at Montana. [Majoring in Criminal Justice. Not Serious.]
- NB Ronnie Paulo said, I think it's a good move. [Majoring in Afro-American Studies. Not serious.]
- The nine other players asked to comment couldn't put together coherent sentences.
The University of Nevada is supposed to be about producing the next generation of applied scientists, not inductees at Canton.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Coach Bobby "Sinecure" Hauck
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Send Hauck back to Montana. We don't want him here unless he is willing to work for $100 per game. The public sector is *not* supposed to be a place to get rich.
UNLV is taxpayer supported benevolent institution. The "charity" is supposed to benefit students, not WELFARE QUEENS like Hauck, Smatresk, Livengood, etc.
Division I sports corrupts the entire mission of higher education.
Send Hauck back to Montana. We don't want him here unless he is willing to work for $100 per game. The public sector is *not* supposed to be a place to get rich.
UNLV is taxpayer supported benevolent institution. The "charity" is supposed to benefit students, not WELFARE QUEENS like Hauck, Smatresk, Livengood, etc.
Division I sports corrupts the entire mission of higher education.
UNLV Welfare Queens
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Send Hauck back to Montana. We don't want him here unless he is willing to work for $100 per game. The public sector is *not* supposed to be a place to get rich.
UNLV is taxpayer supported benevolent institution. The "charity" is supposed to benefit students, not WELFARE QUEENS like Hauck, Smatresk, Livengood, etc.
Division I sports corrupts the entire mission of higher education.
Send Hauck back to Montana. We don't want him here unless he is willing to work for $100 per game. The public sector is *not* supposed to be a place to get rich.
UNLV is taxpayer supported benevolent institution. The "charity" is supposed to benefit students, not WELFARE QUEENS like Hauck, Smatresk, Livengood, etc.
Division I sports corrupts the entire mission of higher education.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Hauck Interviews for UNLV Football Coach
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Hauck's agent, Michael Watkins ..
The public sector is not supposed to be a place to get RICH. If Hauck is so talented let him see employment in the NFL or one of those non-NSHE football schools.
Hauck's agent, Michael Watkins ..
The public sector is not supposed to be a place to get RICH. If Hauck is so talented let him see employment in the NFL or one of those non-NSHE football schools.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Football Program Good For Coaches and Staff
Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum
Sanford's tenure was great for all the shnooks who make money off the program. Sanford and his staff, sports marketers, instructors hired to teach these dunderhead players, concession suppliers, etc.
Attention prospective Coaches researching UNLV: WE DON'T WANT YOU HERE. Not unless you're willing to work for $100 per game, and recruit from the ranks of the applied science majors. UNLV is a state university, not a NFL farm club.
Sanford's tenure was great for all the shnooks who make money off the program. Sanford and his staff, sports marketers, instructors hired to teach these dunderhead players, concession suppliers, etc.
Attention prospective Coaches researching UNLV: WE DON'T WANT YOU HERE. Not unless you're willing to work for $100 per game, and recruit from the ranks of the applied science majors. UNLV is a state university, not a NFL farm club.
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