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Just got it out of the library yesterday. I can't wait. I remember the articles, and the book promises even more. The quote on the back from Frank Deford is encouraging: "The great fraud of 'student-athletes', higher education, and big-time college football has never been detailed better".

Husky fans will of course claim that it was "just a few bad eggs" and the "system has been reformed" and inevitably trot out the lie that Husky football "pays for itself" (as if that is any kind of excuse or reasoning). But these abuses are endemic to the system; they ARE the system. People WANT to watch slaves and criminals bash each other in the arena and pretend it's "college life".
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At least the UW Daily finally has a soccer column for our award-winning college soccer teams (men and women) and our international rep as a feeder uni for world-class soccer players.

Show some love for the other footie fans who use a pigskin - they're losing their beloved stadium this year, after all, while it's remodeled.
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College football doesn't just pay for itself. It pays for EVERY other sport aside from men's basketball.

So yes, they broke the rules. Should they have? No, of course not. But I'm not going to condemn a program that props up all the other welfare sports at UW.
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@3 I think you mean the Alumni donors pay. Which is why they cleaned the windows on the 24th floor.

The sport itself doesn't.
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@3, because "propping up welfare sports" is what universities are all about, right? Who cares if a few people get raped or shot or strong-armed, right? The game is what matters. Right?
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No. I just said don't kick a wounded animal when he's down.
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I hope to find this in my library, too. I was in Boulder when Colorado made its run to the Orange Bowl and the national championship 20 years ago, and I got the impression that that team was just as bad as this one sounds.
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I just started reading this yesterday! About 100 pages in. Powerful stuff.
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"I think you mean the Alumni donors pay. Which is why they cleaned the windows on the 24th floor."

Sorry Will, that's not the case. Ticket, merchandise, and TV revenues make the football program very profitable - donations are not insignificant, but those profits would be there even without them, and those "profits" are why all the other sports (save men's basketball) can continue to exist.

Also, the soccer team isn't losing its field until the end of next year for that rebuild.
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Will In Seattle doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. Ever. You should read every one of his posts with this thought in mind.
11
Ugly cover. Fuck the Huskies.
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Schmader- you missed their event at U Bookstore but they're doing another one at Elliott Bay later this month. On the 24th, I think.

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