Posted
11/19/2008 05:42:00 PM
by Douglas
Interesting, yet
long account of the emergence of the athletic program at The University of Texas at Austin. I'll sum up 8,400 rambling words:
money.It meant that the women’s rowing team, which produced exactly zero dollars from ticket sales, received the equivalent of twenty full scholarships and could routinely take more than thirty athletes to competitions two thousand miles away. What made this formula even more unusual was its goal: to allow every one of UT’s teams to compete for a national championship every year.
Gotta wonder if that's a good use of money.