Missoulian story.
RJ said on: March 25, 2011, 9:38 am
As a parent of a student who is enrolled at the UM, I can honestly say that spending this amount to send the mens BB team to Greely for a tournament and a chance to go play in the NCAA bracket is personally far less offensive on a fiscal level than seeing the university/sports systems spend an amount even higher than this to purchase NEW helmets and full uniforms to be worn in one game (think cat/griz 2011)..This was an appalling waste of school system/sports system money in my opinion that seemed to fly under the radar...I'm not a big sports fan and I don't lose sleep when any of the UM sports programs lose games. Yes I enjoy watching from time to time and yes I enjoy seeing the programs win as I feel it is a positive for the U as a whole, but the college is there to educate the kids not create some illusion of the athletes being special royalty of campus and placing them up on a pedistal. I have a hard time believing that buying 20K-30K worth of helmets and uniforms is going to make the kids any smarter?? It didn't seem to make them play any better so I'll let the results speak for themselves...
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