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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1809665, member: 780"]
Today's Washington Post Sports section has a piece about the SU hiring of an ESPN executive as AD and what this tells us about the state of college sports. The closing paragraph says that there is no longer a line between college sports and entertainment.

A key quote is, "By turning its athletic department over to a television executive, a school is essentially saying, “Our athletic department is a corporate entity whose product is entertainment. It is not an extension of our educational mission.”

This is predictable clucking from the Ivy Leaguers who write this stuff and wish all of college athletics were at the NESCAC level. This romanticizing about the purity of college athletics forgets the period before the mid-1950's when Princeton and Penn were National powers. (Although Kilgore went to SU, he's got to fit in with the heavy vibes at the Post)

Of course this is the Washington Post, one of the most completely politicized papers in the US. They have recently temporarily shut up about the "Redskins" name after a study showed that 90% of native Americans were unconcerned.
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