[NU Sports] Well, I hope you're right Alan! :)

[Mark S. Ament]

NEONRye at aol.com wrote:

> Mark,
> The "money-grubbers" apparently announced that their big payoff is 
> going to academics.  Now, whether that is true I cannot say.  However, 
> what does appear to me to be true is that the OSU Athletic Dept. 
> probably couldn't even locate the classrooms on their campus even if 
> they were inclined to share their loot.  I'm sure their $$ will be 
> going to further expand the Horseshoe, so they can stuff 125,000 
> yahoos into the stadium to watch their non-student athletes.  I'm 
> sorry guys, Big Ten or not, I'm not buying the Bucks at any price.  
> I'll root for every other BT school in their bowls but not them. 
>  
> Paul Levinson

The boys from South Bend always say the money goes to academics.  It 
doesn't seem to matter how much it is or whether it's bowl money or 
NBC's money that they're talking about, it goes to academics.  It makes 
me wonder how the hell they're running the athletic department, because 
believe me, it isn't off of basketball money and Big East non-football 
distributions.  That said, I still go back and back on this one.  I 
can't forget the day, and Paul will remember this, when Jack Tatum broke 
Maury Dauigneau (my spelling is off but he was the NU quarterback in the 
early 70s) for having the temerity of beating the Bucks the year 
before.  He didn't accidentally break by falling on it, no, he 
deliberately broke it in front of God, Woody and a national television 
audience.  So, there is a big part of me that wants to root for ND but 
it really is tough to root for those hypocrites - i just have too many 
partners who went there.

mark

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Mark

Mark S. Ament
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