OT: Texas lockers

[ebucklewis]

 

[Toga]

Soft

 

[Orangepace]

Wow. That locker room is a level above most pro locker rooms.

 

[sufandu]

Kendall Moore must be a TV guy.

 

[UnknownOrange]

Maybe they'll have some money left over for the players

 

[upperdeck]

love the comments about using pictures for the players that cant read.

The Texas football team is excited to watch the College Football Playoffs from their locker room as a team.

 

[Ozcuse]

Their locker room doesn't have a DFB though.

 

[Cheriehoop]

Their locker room doesn't have a DFB though.

Lean and mean! We don't need no fancy foo foo locker rooms

 

[Scooch]

That is an incredibly necessary amenity to have at an academic institution.

Our society has completely and utterly lost it's damn mind.

 

[OttoMets]

This is super.

Install an electronic device to do a job that requires no electricity. And spend thousands of dollars at an educational institution on something that has nothing to do with education.

Be proud, UT.

 

[Cuse'91]

Green-eyed jealousy...
They could be useful for watching opponent video, show to-do checklists, any number of other uses... Plus they look cool as ...

 

[UnknownOrange]

Green-eyed jealousy...
They could be useful for watching opponent video, show to-do checklists, any number of other uses... Plus they look cool as ...

They are an egregious waste of money. Spend it! Spend it quick before the athletes ask for some!

 

[Cuse'91]

They are an egregious waste of money. Spend it! Spend it quick before the athletes ask for some!

This isn't 1995; 43in monitors aren't really that expensive anymore. Costs more to serve lobster at player dinner...

 

[leftytg]

This is super.

Install an electronic device to do a job that requires no electricity. And spend thousands of dollars at an educational institution on something that has nothing to do with education.

Be proud, UT.

do you think it comes out of the general fund? Like, somehow it is between spending the money for academic scholarships or spending it on locker rooms?

It's all fundraising. Texas has a ton of rich alumni who donate money to the football program. Why does anyone care what private people do with their own money? UT is at, or near, the top of the athletic department revenue lists every year. It is the flagship state university in a football crazy state. The athletic department actually gives money to the academic side and does not draw money from the school in the form of student fees. Given that stuff like this matters to recruits (especially given the competition UT faces for talent in Texas), they have every rational reason to invest in perks that draw better recruits, in order to maintain the profitability of the athletic department (which is almost entirely tied to football).

 

[OttoMets]

do you think it comes out of the general fund? Like, somehow it is between spending the money for academic scholarships or spending it on locker rooms?

It's all fundraising. Texas has a ton of rich alumni who donate money to the football program. Why does anyone care what private people do with their own money? UT is at, or near, the top of the athletic department revenue lists every year. It is the flagship state university in a football crazy state. The athletic department actually gives money to the academic side and does not draw money from the school in the form of student fees. Given that stuff like this matters to recruits (especially given the competition UT faces for talent in Texas), they have every rational reason to invest in perks that draw better recruits, in order to maintain the profitability of the athletic department (which is almost entirely tied to football).

Is that rhetorical?

No, of course I know it doesn't come from the general fund. It's a sad example of waste funded by citizens with warped priorities, solicited and abetted by university employees with warped priorities, and defended by people with a very peculiar conflation of vices and virtues.

 

[Orangepace]

Is that rhetorical?
It's a sad example of waste funded by citizens with warped priorities, solicited and abetted by university employees with warped priorities, and defended by people with a very peculiar conflation of vices and virtues.

Doesn't this statement effectively apply to all the time spent by each and every one of us on a message board talking about Syracuse athletics?! That time could have been spent saving the world in some fashion, no?!

Your holier-than-thou, finger-pointing exercise just backfired.

 

[dasher]

That is an incredibly necessary amenity to have at an academic institution.

Our society has completely and utterly lost it's damn mind.

11/8/ 2017 proved that

 

[sufandu]

11/8/ 2017 proved that

Are you living in the future? Tell me, how do we look after the first 9 games?

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

Is that rhetorical?

No, of course I know it doesn't come from the general fund. It's a sad example of waste funded by citizens with warped priorities, solicited and abetted by university employees with warped priorities, and defended by people with a very peculiar conflation of vices and virtues.

Kinda like the government,but it confiscates our money to fund many of those same things.