Austinist: Mack Brown Gets Raise, Contract Extension

guest

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:50:49 -0600

wow thats alota money

guest

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 22:11:28 -0600

It's always interesting to watch a truly insecure person revert to projected discrimination in order to defend against abject paranoia. Unless the nation of Israel is a theocracy, you've no basis for this line of argument. You did bring religion into this, after all. Mack Brown has benefited from the largess of UT, period. Sorry you've created a situation to be offended by, guest #4/7.

guest

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:31:14 -0600

Guest #3/6: I get it. You're not blaming Joos. You're blaming AIPAC. Probably because the Joos, through AIPAC, control the US government. Which isn't you blaming Joos. Nope. Just Zionists. What this has to do with football you still haven't mentioned. What this does have to do is broadcast your very own agenda of anti-Jooish propaganda. See, as a Joo, I'm quite awaree of the tactics often used to smear my religion. Of course, I deserve it, as me and my people control the US government (via AIPAC), and the gas companies, the world press, the banks, world trade. Ooh, and we killed Jesus. Out of spite, y'know? And this has everything to do with Mack Browns contract extension, and nothing to do with your ill conceived, improper, totally unsuppportive original view that the US government is paying Israel to kill those Palestinians who have been blowing themselves up on Israeli buses, instead of working to make peace with a now 60 year old entity. Keep denying reality, Guest #3/6.

guest

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:17:07 -0600

Guest #4: It has to do with how funding works, not football. If Group A supports Group B in a particular endeavor with financial assistance, it frees up Group B's existing funds for other uses. In this case, if there is support for athletics from the university in the form of financial resources, it allows them to use existing resources for highly questionably timed raises for already overcompensated coaches. And contrary to some of the other posters' misinformation, the university contributes financial, service and support resources to athletics. They are only an island when it comes to internal fundraising. BTW, I don't think I blamed the "Joos" anywhere in my original post, but this is standard AIPAC M.O. when anyone questions American involvement in a regional conflict involving Israel. I speak of Israel the government and its policies, but you immediately made the false leap that I was anti-semitic in order to try and end the conversation.

guest

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:20:15 -0600

Uh, of the $93M annual athletic budget UT has, I believe all of it comes from private donations seeing they can not use state funds or funds provided for educational purposes for athletics like other universities can.

guest

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:37:01 -0600

Guest #3: Uhhhh.... what does your non-objective, highly objectionable view of the Middle East (i.e. blame it on the Jooos) have to do with football?

guest

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:10:40 -0600

Whatever. That's like saying our aid to the Israelis doesn't pay for bullets that kill Palestinians. And why in the hell would the regents have to approve it if it didn't affect the UT general fund? And the fact that athletics is self-sustaining is a joke, anyway. Why is it the one unit of the university that is allowed an independent budget? Shouldn't athletics-since it trades on the UT name-contribute a progressive percentage to the university at large? Thanks to the failed legislative strategy of the administration, the university lost 2% of the state's contribution. At a time when the academic and service units are forced to tighten their belts, is it fair (or sane) to be doling out huge raises to Brown? I don't think so.

guest

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:26:51 -0600

Joel, UT football is self-supporting. Your tuition doesn't pay Mack Brown's salary.

Joel Nihlean

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:18:01 -0600

I am so glad that the tens of thousands of dollars I have piddled away at that university are going to make a real difference in someone's life.