Talk about screwed up priorities

[WX7P]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=6534857

AUSTIN, Texas -- Several Texas senators are criticizing a $200,000 raise for Texas basketball coach Rick Barnes as the university faces likely budget cuts.
School regents approved the raise Wednesday. Barnes was owed a $75,000 increase under his contract. Another $125,000 was added to keep him among the 10 highest-paid coaches in the country.
The Texas athletic department is self-supporting and the raise does not include tax money.
State Sen. Kirk Watson, a Democrat representing Austin, says the regents are tone deaf to a state budget crisis that could result in heavy cuts to Texas higher education.
In January, Texas Tech gave football coach Tommy Tuberville a $500,000 raise, prompting complaints by university faculty in Lubbock.

Texas governor Rick Perry whined about not getting federal money after their wildfire thing, yet this kind of crap goes on.

Unbelievable.

[NA4BH]

I wonder how big the raise was for the head of the Arts department?








ZERO

[W5GA]

Or how much new equipment the Science Dept. got?

[WB0LSR]

Yeah.. the more I see some of this kind of crap, the more I begin to honestly believe that in order for a person to be placed in a position of authority over almost any institution they must first prove their extreme aversion to common sense and logic. Quite often the things that these kinds of people do are criminal, but yet all the rest of us are expected to either laud those in power with respect and praise or stay silent. God forbid we should call their attention to their idiocy.

And yes.. the people in charge of the hospital that I work at are these same types of people, which is why this topic struck a nerve with me.

[NQ6U]

I wonder how big the raise was for the head of the Arts department?

ZERO

The art department is always the first one to have it's funding cut.

[KG4CGC]

The art department is always the first one to have it's funding cut.

Yeah. It's just drawing. My 12 year old niece can do that.

Then ask her to make you business cards for your company. ASSHOLE!

[n2ize]

The art department is always the first one to have it's funding cut.

Well who needs arts ? That is for liberal potheads.

[W5GA]

The art department is always the first one to have it's funding cut.

Them or music

[WX7P]

Which is a bunch of crap that it happens that way.

I look at music and the arts the same way I look at sports. It's entertainment.

We have become a blockhead culture that awards gridiron prowess over artistic talent.

Before I graduated from High School in 1976, there was a "crisis" in the football program. The blockheads needed new helmets. So the powers that be rolled out one of those fold-em-up carnies to raise money for the goddamn football program. They got the money within 3 days.

As a band nerd, I had to sell candy.

[NA4BH]

The band at the local HS gets very little funding from the school. Needless to say, the Boosters and kids are hustling to stay afloat. They always make enough to get the kids what ever they need. One year the band had just finished a fund-raiser and had a good bit of money in the account. The athletic folks found out about it and demanded that it be shared. The Boosters told them to go Fsck themselves. The band got new uniforms, the athletes had to actually dig in their pockets and do some fund-raising. They were devastated. If I may use a recent quote "JUSTICE WAS SERVED". Oh, sweet victory.