The debates in Oklahoma City over the wisdom of coughing over arena money while other pressing issues exist is painfully familiar to longtime Seattle residents.
The fact that my state school (Rutgers) gets ~140m a year, and can expect taxpayers and tuition to cover any loses they garner doing that, to cosplay a D1 football school is nuts. Half the school is Indian and asian and couldn’t give less of a shit about football - give us like 1% of that budget for a funded cricket team and we’d demolish.
The fact that my state school (Rutgers) gets ~140m a year, and can expect taxpayers and tuition to cover any loses they garner doing that, to cosplay a D1 football school is nuts. Half the school is Indian and asian and couldn’t give less of a shit about football - give us like 1% of that budget for a funded cricket team and we’d demolish.
The issue would be finding other NCAA Schools to play cricket against
Maybe they can start with Princeton.
It would be affirmative action for south asians just like squash and crew is affirmative action for WASPs.
… and lax and swimming…
Sounds like a national championship to me!