If you can stomach it head over to the Charleston Daily Mail and read Dave Peyton’s latest column on the “outrageous” fees Marshall students pay towards athletics.
Almost $900 per student is a lot of money going towards athletics but this guy thinks we should still be playing at Fairfield Stadium. We would not be out of 1-AA, much less the MAC, if we still played at Fairfield.
Peyton needs to realize that college athletics are about more than “old alumni and those who never attended the university but think sports is the only thing Marshall has to offer have something to talk about when they can't find anything serious to discuss.” People talking about Marshall athletics has nothing to do with the students fees. It has to do with Peyton’s media talking about Marshall. The media coverage coming back to Marshall due to athletics, which MU sports information director Randy Burnside pegged at forty million dollars last week, is the main reason why all that money gets funneled to sports. Assuming Marshall has 14,000 students paying $900 each ($12.6 million) I think a net gain of $27.4 million (40 million – 12.6 million) is a equation any business or university would be proud of. If Peyton’s media covered great scholars and class room achievements like those on the football field I am sure those student fees would be re-directed.
Read the whole article here: http://www.dailymail.com/Opinion/DavePeyton/201006130356
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