Ah yes, the Daily Cougar preaching the same crap as in the ‘60’s !!
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I don’t think they’re the same people.
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Y’all:
SFAC did a GOOD thing. These are fees that are collected on top of tuition by the University. They’re reallocating some from Athletics, who plan to increase their revenue stream in other ways, to other things that more students would use and benefit from.
On top of that, they did it to call Pez out for not telling them what the money is used for. He does it “we use it for what we need” and SFAC is arguing that should be invested towards the student experience.
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I couldn’t tell you what Lamar is or where it’s at. I can tell you about pretty much every major athletic university.
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Student-led committee I have one advice for you:
Go to the administration office and demand that tuition goes down.
Universities all over the country have become a racket. U of H and all other universities are exploiting students, all students.
Now the question comes to this:
What kind of return of investment do you get from your degree?
Nationwide we see millions of students in debt. No one wants to talk about it. The easy answer is to hear student debt forgiveness. What we do not hear/watch/debate is for universities to stop exploiting students and stop paying outrageous salaries to professors.
I keep reading of student experience. Let me ask you this:
What kind of student experience do you get when you are buried to your eye balls from student loans?
Now this is for our biggest benefector:
I am reading about huge increases (if i read this right) why is it that you Mr. Fertitta can’t have our own Bauer School of Business not have a class dedicated to bring butts in our stadium venues?
What is stopping you Mr. Fertitta?
I read a month or so ago that our own Bauer School of business has a Taylor Swift “oriented” course.
Is Taylor Swift going to benefit U of H?
Is Taylor Swift going to benefit our athletic department?
Insanity is defined as doing the same idiotic s…t over and over again.
I expect a leading type of leadership from Mr. Fertitta. It would be awesome IMO if he goes to our Bauer School of business and tell them what works in real life.
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Get loans. You don’t have to pay them back !!
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Yes they are 
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Have to massively disagree with this take. Blowing off the students is not a great idea. Where do future academic and athletic donations come from, future season ticket holders, future supporters in many ways. Give them a bad experience and they will not be back. Show some willing to listen and include them and they may be back in some form.
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I have to agree with the students in general. If the fee is to go to the student experience at games, then that needs to be clearly defined. Otherwise I can see why they want them to go to organizations that do benefit the student body directly.
One thing not said out loud - From a student perspective, I would be not be happy if my fees were going to support player benefits where they are also getting paid 1000s of dollars to play if not 100,000s of dollars, while I was trying to pay my way through school.
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Is Pez in training to become a Texas Legislator?
I know smooching the big donors is part of the job but Pez loves to do some kisses like he is a politician
The older I get, the more I think this talking point is an example of the tail wagging the dog. UT’s athletic department is major because they’re the flagship university of a state with almost 7 million people in it, not the other way around. Bama has 18 National Championships and they’re still the second-best University in their own system. On the flip side, Harvard and Emory and Johns Hopkins and UChicago aren’t exactly hurting for their lack of athletic prowess, and even if you limit it to public schools there are all of the UCs outside of Berkeley and LA that have to be accounted for.
For that matter, I’ve met a lot of people who literally don’t know what state Auburn is in despite the fact that they have a shortlist-major athletic program; a lot of people assume offhand that it’s in Illinois or Indiana or some other midwest state for some reason (and honestly I think that’s good for their branding).
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To be a known school that most in the nation or region know, you either need big time sports or be a stellar private school, like rice, Tulane, Harvard, univ of Chicago etc to be known. We can’t get known by academics or selectivity alone like a Harvard so we need a combo of big time sports and at least good academics. All these big time football schools spend all that money bc it matters in many ways from kids wanting to go there etc.
Being honest most schools are good but not well known bc they lack big time sports or great academics. Abilene Christian is prob a good school but go up north and it’s who?
Ask UT , Lsu, A&M and Bama why sports matter and you’ll have the answer.
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So what I’ve seen…No one read the article and immediately drew their own conclusions or as some of our esteemed legacy Cougars progress through their lives the reading comprehension isn’t what it used to be.
The recommendation is to draw down as more money comes in to become more in line with the Big 12 average student athletic fees. Makes sense.
They want to know where their money is going, not Pez’s “we put the money in the bucket and use it for whatever.” Again sounds like something that should be encouraged as a stakeholder know how your money is being spent.
Finally the money coming out goes to other student services, which seems like a good thing for student fees to go towards.
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Texas and A&M are sitting on $50bn in oil money; that’s almost certainly done far more for their brand than Athletics ever has. And despite all of their athletic success, LSU and Bama are ranked far below UT-Dallas, which doesn’t even have D1 sports. Bama’s academic rankings are below UAB, and LSU is perennially on the verge of shuttering. Most schools with large Athletic programs, especially in the Deep South, have mid-at-best academics.
Yeah a huge chunk of SEC schools are basically Texas State with awesome athletic budgets.
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Point is big time sports can make a school known regardless of academics which is why they do it. If your not Harvard or Tulane etc, you have to find a way to stand out.Harvard can drop all sports and still be well known which is basically what they are doing bc they are div 3, Ivy League but A&M,Lsu and UT can’t.
Tulane lives off the academic prestige more so than sports overall.
So again go ask a UT and Harvard grad then they will explain. Ask UT to drop all sports and ask the Harvard guy why they seem to not need to be in big time sports. You’ll then have the answers.
aTm and UT could drop sports and they’d still be known worldwide academically.
Sports is a moneymaker for UT so it’s a moot point.
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Must be typo. Texas has far more than 7 million people (more like 30 million).
