Statement of Principles


Nevada government keeps getting bigger and BIGGER. We deserve minimum, strictly limited, constitutional government in this State.

Forget all this blather about a $3B "shortfall". The budget for the '12/'13 biennium should be no more than $200M.



Thursday, December 24, 2009

UNLV Athletics Does NOT Score A Profit

Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum

This talk about D1 sports "profitablity" is obfuscation.
  1. Players don't get paid (at least not officially). You can't talk about profitability in a way that makes business sense.
  2. Fuzzy accounting. Such analyses always overlooks the true cost of D1, including lowered academic standards, ridiculous departments maintained to provide academic cover for jocks, distractions to the Administration, and so forth. Perhaps Forbes would care to estimate how much we're going to be liable for when lawyers representing these disgruntled, brain injured jocks someday sue us in a class action.
  3. The Nevada Constitution specifies a funding mechanism for state colleges: DIRECT TAXATION (or tuition/user fees/fines/donations). UNLV is NOT allowed to operate semi-pro sports teams in lieu of taxpayer support, any more than it's allowed to operate a hotel/casino for that purpose.
  4. Sports revenues (tickets, TV, merchandising, etc) should revert to the STATE's general fund, not to UNLV's. It's up to the crooked politicians to decide where the money goes next.
Why do you sports fanatics insist that the rest of us pay for your bizarre form of entertainment? I don't ask you to pay for my theatre tickets.
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