USA Today: Football Comes First at the University of Tennessee

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jtipto10 said:
She basically says the biggest travesty is that students might be too lazy to go to class the next day
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Yep. This...

"Academics was our collective primary concern,” Hart said in May, when the move was first announced. “Our goal is to be able to do this with minimal impact to the class schedule.”

It didn't take long to see the folly in that.

Tennessee is adding a day to the end of the semester so no class time is being lost. Theoretically, at least. But given that that Thursday is bound to be a daylong party, how many kids are really going to pull themselves out of bed for their Friday morning classes? Or, given that the following Monday is Labor Day, not use it as an excuse to take a five-day weekend?
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Couldn't that be said for every Monday morning of every semester after students have a full weekend to party? Better stop having weekends, huh?

It’s not a good look, and it only furthers the idea that athletics has outsized influence at Tennessee.
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Just another nonsensical article with no value whatsoever.
 
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first rule of journalism today is: only the journalist's agenda matters...real facts and truths don't......remember that and you're good to go...:)

GO VOLS!
 
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Nancy Armour does what for a living? Oh, yeah, she writes for the SPORTS section of USA Today. Ironic that she criticizes the very thing that supports her livelihood? DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO!!! Puppet moron.
 
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OuterBanksVol said:
Nancy Armour does what for a living? Oh, yeah, she writes for the SPORTS section of USA Today. Ironic that she criticizes the very thing that supports her livelihood? DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO!!! Puppet moron.
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Boooommmmmmmm. She comes across as a whiny nerd for sure

Hey Nancy in America UT and it's students can arrange their schedule to best fit them academically and socially. It's called freedom of choice.
 
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Just another inflammatory nonstory fishing for clicks. Journalism is dead in this country. We need to change the laws back to where news organizations have to actually report news again. As soon as they were able to start chasing profit before serving the public good the downward spiral started.
 
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JCHateSteve said:
Just another inflammatory nonstory fishing for clicks. Journalism is dead in this country. We need to change the laws back to where news organizations have to actually report news again. As soon as they were able to start chasing profit before serving the public good the downward spiral started.
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Agreed. The journalistic motto now is shoot first, ask questions later. Whoever can get their story out there first, regardless of whether the info is correct, gets all the clicks and exposure. Now, that has nothing to do with this particular story, just journalism in general.

Say what you will about Jimmy Hyams, a lot of people laugh at him for being "late" on every news story, but that's because he still operates in the Golden Age of journalism. Hyams will never post a story unless he has 3 solid sources that he knows personally backing up his story on record.

As for this article, it just shows the ineptitude and stupidity of the author. No self-respecting journalist would essentially call the students lazy and use that as a reason to back up her claim that a university doesn't care about it's education. So, what.......all students at UT now are party-hard alcoholics? That's a gross generalization. I just recently graduated from UT and I can tell you that's not the case. Besides, people skip class most of the time regardless of whether or not they are hungover or if there was a game the night before.
 
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illinoisvolfan1 said:
Oh please. Most likely any other school in a good size city would do the same thing. Make it sound like UT is an outlaw for doing this.
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Even schools in smaller towns do it as well. I work for va tech and they cancel classes for football as well. It's a small little thing of a town. Don't even have a Walmart here. Have to drive to next 'city' over to do any shopping. They cancelled class last year for the Ohio state game. It's not just UT.
 
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"But given that that Thursday is bound to be a daylong party, how many kids are really going to pull themselves out of bed for their Friday morning classes?"

Read the sentence as it is written, then delete "that that," and read it again. "That" is the most over/misused word in the English language. Over 90% of the time it is either misused or could simply be deleted. Forget journalism, she is not a good writer.
 
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DuckinVol said:
"But given that that Thursday is bound to be a daylong party, how many kids are really going to pull themselves out of bed for their Friday morning classes?"

Read the sentence as it is written, then delete "that that," and read it again. "That" is the most over/misused word in the English language. Over 90% of the time it is either misused or could simply be deleted. Forget journalism, she is not a good writer.
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Also there is poor use of a conjunction at the beginning of that sentence, just saying.
 
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Piss poor and I mean piss poor attempt to slam the University. Logistics aside, she is stating the main problem is that we cancelled classes. Later in the article she says "UT did add one day to the end of the semester so no class time would be lost." Ok...so what is the problem? Oh thats right, she says that students will be too hung over to go to class on Friday.

Let me help Nancy out here. The recent article that stated UT athletics brings in 610 Million in annual revenue to Knoxville is huge. Does she realize when the athletic department is running well the AD routinely donates millions of dollars TO THE UNIVERSITY THAT FUNDS SCHOLARSHIPS ETC FOR ACADEMIC STUDENTS!!

My gosh, the ignorance in society today and media astounds me
 
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She spends more than half of the article giving the reasons that classes are cancelled, but ignores them because "boo hoo I don't like UT". She conveniently buries the lede in an off hand comment halfway through about the classes being added back at the end and quickly turns back to blasting Tennessee. Give me a break. This is the type of **** opinion piece that belongs next to the crossword puzzle--AKA not news.
 
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VOL 4 Life 83 said:
Also there is poor use of a conjunction at the beginning of that sentence, just saying.
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True. Beginning a sentence with a conjunction is not necessarily incorrect, but it was not necessary in this instance. If she felt it was necessary, a comma after would have improved the way the sentence should be read. Maybe the paper pays by the word.
 
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VersaceButch said:
Agreed. The journalistic motto now is shoot first, ask questions later. Whoever can get their story out there first, regardless of whether the info is correct, gets all the clicks and exposure. Now, that has nothing to do with this particular story, just journalism in general.

Say what you will about Jimmy Hyams, a lot of people laugh at him for being "late" on every news story, but that's because he still operates in the Golden Age of journalism. Hyams will never post a story unless he has 3 solid sources that he knows personally backing up his story on record.

As for this article, it just shows the ineptitude and stupidity of the author. No self-respecting journalist would essentially call the students lazy and use that as a reason to back up her claim that a university doesn't care about it's education. So, what.......all students at UT now are party-hard alcoholics? That's a gross generalization. I just recently graduated from UT and I can tell you that's not the case. Besides, people skip class most of the time regardless of whether or not they are hungover or if there was a game the night before.
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Unfortunately facts don't drive revenue. Tennessee is an easy target thanks to the title 9 suite. Stuff like this is the reason I don't trust anything in the media unless the BBC reports it, which is sad.
 
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rtb1983 said:
Even schools in smaller towns do it as well. I work for va tech and they cancel classes for football as well. It's a small little thing of a town. Don't even have a Walmart here. Have to drive to next 'city' over to do any shopping. They cancelled class last year for the Ohio state game. It's not just UT.
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Exactly. I came to post this exact same thing. VT has been doing this, as they're self proclaimed king of Thursday night games, for a very long time. This is just another article written by someone who didn't bother to do their homework whatsoever. Total garbage.
 
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On the bright side, the students are learning a good lesson in economics.
1). The easier the city makes it for fans, the more money they will spend
2). The more money they spend, businesses will pay more taxes
3). The more tax revenue increases, the less public institutions will be inclined to raise tuition
4). Lower the tuition is, the more disposable income people have
5). See number 2
 
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Some writers simply aren't worth reading.

This one added herself to my list of those.

Not because I disagree with her (though I do); I disagree with a lot of writers that I love to read.

But because her logic is so faulty, her research so spotty, and her agenda so transparently biased.
 
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