Breaking: McCrory to shut down all college athletics programs
CHAPEL HILL, NC - Deputy Assistant Governor Pat McCrory today doubled-down in attacking the University of North Carolina system, declaring his intention to eliminate all collegiate sports on every UNC campus effective in 2014.
"State funded universities should be educating students to get good-paying jobs," McCrory said to a standing-room-only crowd of in the Dean Smith Center.
"Look at this wasteful building," he said, pointing to the Carolina blue jerseys hanging from the rafters. "Two or three players at most will get jobs playing basketball after they graduate. That's a crazy use of tax dollars."
"And what about all the other sports here in Chapel Hill? Cross country? Are you shining me? Who gets a job as a runner these days? And what about wrestling? All those guys smelling each others' armpits? Seriously? That's not a job for a state university, that's a job for Tom Fetzer."
In a follow up question, McCrory was asked about funding for the school of education in the wake of draconian budget cuts coming to public schools. "Great point," McCrory said. "Do we really need to keep turning out teachers when we're closing schools right and left? The school of education? I don't think so. I'm going to shut that freaking place down."
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The only good paying jobs...
...coming out of the universities are for professional athletes...and ..well...I guess there are not so many of those after all...because the sports teams pretty much suck.
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Nothing about jobs in the NC constitution
McCrory's such a dick.
The best paying jobs?
The best paying jobs that come from college are those who go to college to find a nice rich spouse. All those fancy courses are fine but the real value of college is in marrying money. College should teach young men and women the tools to discover if the love of your life really does have family money or if he or she is merely a "poser." Parlaying the good times of college into marrying well should be priority #1. Marrying well precludes the need for a common job.
I thought I had married well. Prior to marriage the rumor was that my future wife's father owned a bank and his health was failing. But as luck would have it his health was fine. It was the damn bank that was failing. So I have had to work to support him and his daughter. Do not rely on rumors of wealth. Colleges should teach the students to investigate!
That's not bad luck,
it's called karma. Or "Godsmack", if you prefer the quaint vernacular.
THE best paying job
Art Pope has the best paying job in the state. All he had to do was make it out of his mother's womb alive ... Presto! A privileged multimillionaire slumlord was born!
According to McCrory's logic, people like Pope should never be allowed in public universities. They already have jobs ... no need to take a spot for some wannabe rich guy in mechanical engineering.
Lol! Check this out:
Apparently some people have a broken humor detector:
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Actually, I sorta wish it was true.
Every student who attends UNCW pays $438 a year so UNCW can pay their BB coach $700K/year and recruit Ball players and give them scholarships. In my opinion, that's disgusting.
In a related opinion, to really frost people, every time I see someone with a block of cheese on their head or wearing some other outlandish garb to "root" for their team, I wonder if their mother's birth pains were worth it.
Stan Bozarth
I wish it was true too
but DAG McCrory doesn't have the spine to put his ass on the line behind all his happy talk about jobs.