One Has Nothing To Do With The Other

Fantasticly stupid article on foxnews.com. I mean, really dumb. Click the title of this blog post to read this foolishness.

This article rips the decision to hire Coach Calipari as irresponsible in a climate where the state of Kentucky and its namesake University have to make budget cuts. However, the funding for U.K.'s basketball program has nothing to do with taxpayer money, tuition, or anything else that is taking a hit right now. Instead, it has everything to do with U.K.'s athletic department. That departmetnt is rolling in money. So much so, that they routinely give the University's president money to spend on academic endevours. I repeat- money from U.K.'s athletic department helps FUND the academic side, not vice-versa.

The biggest problem with this article is that the author admits that Mitch Barnhart spelled all this out at the press conference. Since the author neither tries to refute this claim with any kind of evidence, and instead goes on trying to prove his faulty thesis, I wonder how stupid the writer is.

He acts like this is akin to failing companies paying their C.E.O.s tons of money. But again, the University of Kentucky's athletic department is not a failing company! It's a crazy-good successful company that makes tons of money.

Sorry I can't be funnier about this, but this really pisses me off and I'm tired of seeing these uninformed articles that are written with a preconceived belief in mind that will not change even when confronted with evidence to the contrary.