RE: W&M Fan Reactions: Recent Cuts
Bubba- your post is an embarrassment, and an affront to every W&M athlete ... past, present, and future. Your comments about volleyball are unwarranted, and beneath you.
Watch the Crispino/Moore podcast that I posted on another thread. It speaks the truth. What has happened to you?
W&M is not like other schools. We never have been. Most of us, Administration excluded, don’t want to be like other schools. Competing at the highest level with zero resources is a badge of honor in our minds. We overachieve. Ever hear of that? Think Levy and the Navy upset. It’s a common theme throughout William and Mary athletics ... all sports.
Your “tack” about wishing sports would remain but can’t has worn old ... you said basically the same thing about the firing of Tony Shaver. And this is all about, and solely about, the damn ticket to the Dance, despite all the smoke, mirrors, misdirection, etc., etc., etc. How much damage has to be done to go to the Dance?
Do relationships matter? Do intercollegiate sports attract highly-disciplined individuals who interact and succeed in life? Damn right they do, and this is incalculable in terms of the student experience, the alumni experience, and fricking donor dollars! Try to see the forest through the trees, and stop being a sycophant!
The natatorium is irrelevant.
Finally ....
If this has been a long time coming, then the AD blatantly lied when she said (1) all rocks had been turned over in the newspaper article covering the termination of the programs, and (2) that swimming was not in trouble last year. Let that sink in. Either you’re wrong that this is a long time coming, or the AD lied. It’s one or the other. Which is it? And if the AD lied, and the entire donor base knows it, ... think, man, think ... donations are going to dry up fast, and the school is going to have to rely solely on major donors. And if the major donors finally wake up and get their heads out of the sand, the school will have major financial decisions.
The stupidity and arrogance of this decision by the Administration (not just the AD ... all of them) is breath-taking.
Well, you got my blood going this morning! Thanks! :-)
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