UC Berkley could cut track and cross country if anti-sports radicals up here get there way

Yes, grammar police, I realize now, upon seeing thread, that it should say 'their' way, not there way.

Tough shit for Cal. They have enough Billionaire alumni in Silicon Valley who can makeup the costs just with the cash tucked in their bras and panty straps. They should stop the war too and save $1 Trillion year. The war is a lost cause. Face it, Islam has won, we lost bigtime.

Schools need sports not just for the athletes but for the student body to have some way to cut loose and be proud of. Have you ever heard of a student body "rally round the math dept"?

Tough Shit fool wrote:

Tough shit for Cal. They have enough Billionaire alumni in Silicon Valley who can makeup the costs just with the cash tucked in their bras and panty straps. They should stop the war too and save $1 Trillion year. The war is a lost cause. Face it, Islam has won, we lost bigtime.

I agree their alumni could make up the shortfall.

As to your other comments, Islam has not won, if Islam wins, all non Islam's will be murdered. So, unless you are Islamic, you'd be dead.

The most likely scenario, is radical Islam will go to far, and the west will nuke Mecca and Medina, and there will Muslims will be kicked out of Europe and other countries where they are the minority.

It will likely be real ugly, and potentially the end of human life on the planet.

So write stupid, be stupid, if you want, but such things are not trivial.

BTW, CAL did not start the war, although they do a lot of military work.

That's total bullshit. Muslims ruled Iberia for over 700 years and Christians and Jews were free to practice their religions under their rule. One word: dhimmi.

cut the guys team... its embarrassing how much talent they waste there

With Cal's changing demographics moving towards 60% Asian, the demise of its athletic program is inevitable. As a general rule, Asians neither play Division 1 sports in any significant number, nor do they support spectator sports. They might go to football games because all of their friends are going (herd mentality), but they don't really care about the game or the tradition. They would prefer that all UC funds go to academic-only purposes.

calling people who want to cut unbelievably unprofitable and unpopular running programs "anti-sport" radicals is a bit of an oxymoron.

You should have gone with "anti-spending a lot of money on a waste of time recreational activity" radicals. That would have been spot on

good point but wrote:

calling people who want to cut unbelievably unprofitable and unpopular running programs "anti-sport" radicals is a bit of an oxymoron.

You should have gone with "anti-spending a lot of money on a waste of time recreational activity" radicals. That would have been spot on

You, my good sir, are simply unintelligent... it is completely radical to drop a running program from a school because you want to save a few dollars! Have you ever thought about the number of people that this effects? The athletes on that team would be thrust into a position where they have to uproot themselves to another school, possibly in a different region of the country, and many will lose their scholarships and be unable to afford the same caliber of education at all. And all of this would be for what? Because a few radicals think their video game designers are more worthwhile (not bashing the profession, just an example that athletics are just as important as academics to some people)... it seems like a crazy (and stupid) idea to me.

If you were the president of a major academic university and were faced with cutting faculty, courses, academic aid, or athletics, I athletics is the obvious choice. A place like Cal would not suffer without athletics, its reputation is purely academic and students do not choose to attend Cal for the athletic environment. Other 'good' schools like Duke or Michigan would suffer without athletics, much of their culture is built around basketball/football etc.

Cal has the #5 athletic program in the NCAA. The schools with the most championships are UCLA, USC, Stanford, Oklahoma State, followed by Cal. Cal is in the PAC-10 which is the top athletic conference in the NCAA, especially i n T&F, XC, and Football. Cal is so popular, it has the 2nd most freshman applications each year behind UCLA.

Cal could start admitting more paying students in order to raise revenue. Right now it has the higher number of Pell Grant recipients in the country. In other words, it has the poorest student population in the country. There are plenty of rich kids with decent grades who would pay full price to attend Cal, but they are shut out by the high-stat, low-income Asians who neither pay full tuition nor contribute much as alums. Probably wouldn't sit well with the lib profs to make a good financial decision that might end up benefitting the rich, tho.

Since the UC System is the primary source for U.S. federal research labs (DOE, NASA, DOD, etc.), UC schools must admit the most qualified applicants to fullfil it's U.S. National Security mission. East Asians and Central Asians make up the bulk of the scientists and engineers at UC Campuses and at other domestic world class institutions of higher learning. Stanford, USC, and U.S. other premier institutions are infamous for Asian/Jew Exclusion practices, but the UC System is a public institution and is prevented by law from excluding qualified applicants by race.

Not sure what this Nor Cal anti-sports agenda is that your talking about.

Being from Nor Cal myself, I would be interested in seeing some actual evidence of this.

should read : that *you're* talking about.

Denny Crane wrote:

I agree their alumni could make up the shortfall.

As to your other comments, Islam has not won, if Islam wins, all non Islam's will be murdered. So, unless you are Islamic, you'd be dead.

The most likely scenario, is radical Islam will go to far, and the west will nuke Mecca and Medina, and there will Muslims will be kicked out of Europe and other countries where they are the minority.

It will likely be real ugly, and potentially the end of human life on the planet.

So write stupid, be stupid, if you want, but such things are not trivial.

BTW, CAL did not start the war, although they do a lot of military work.

Sarah Palin, is that you?

I wasn't proposing that Cal exclude applicants by race. I was proposing they exclude applicants who can't pay. Cal is not prevented by law from doing this. It makes good business sense to not give away your product for free. Duh.

Someone above wrote that Cal has the 5th best athletics program in the NCAA. I don't know if that's exactly true or not, but I do know that Cal is a very recognizable name in both academics and athletics and has a long rich history of athletic success and tradition. HOW is that athletic program not supporting itself? Surely UCLA and USC and Oregon don't use school tuition funds to run athletic programs.

They should deny those that can't pay for West Point, US Air Force Academy, etc. We don't need those ripoff academies anymore given ROTC supplies the best officers.