Postmaster wrote:Longhorned wrote:If these recruits show up to campus they better be prepared to join Sean Miller in cleaning the toilets and mopping the floors in the locker room. The university is fucked. To avoid exigency, just about everyone who isn't in administration, actively teaching classes, or in a "continued status" position will be gone. Wave at the tenured professors mowing the grass on the Mall, and the deans picking up trash.
I doubt any flagship public R1 in the country is as bad off as the U of A.
Isn’t the athletic dept more autonomous since it’s self funded?
And why are the schools hurting so much? I didn’t get a refund for all the on -campus stuff they charge you for.
In our normal thinking, yes. But in a way you wouldn't think of in a university with such severe financial problems, you suddenly realize that, no, in fact they bleed over to one another. When Sean Miller gets a hornet nest in his office window, a support staff member calls facilities management, which sends a campus-employed crew to blast insect poison on the situation. There isn't one crew who exterminates coaches' offices, and another crew who exterminates hornets nests across the street at the library.
Add that to the fact that athletics programs depend on basketball and football revenues, what happens when there aren't any ticket sales?
"What? Is this guy actually suggesting that university might not be able to employ its necessary manual laborers anymore?"
Yes, that's what I'm suggesting. Mass layoffs that will ripple through Tucson. On top of the substantial pay cut forced on those who will stay in their jobs. And that's regardless of whether the fall re-entry plan works or not. If in-person classes
aren't held in the fall, I doubt we'll see even the hornet-blaster dudes.
