LSU quarterback Joe Burrow demands to know why someone feels entitled to what student-athletes contribute to the football program’s bottom line. One twist, though. He posed the question to a professor at the school.
They just do woke differently in Baton Rouge.
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A “First year tenure track Professor” has a compensation package of roughly 130k. He can afford a Wal-mart dust devil.
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I don’t think it’s a matter of who can afford what. The football team can obviously afford to subsidize the academic mission as they have been for some time now. The implication is that the professor is having to clean his own office because the school/department can’t afford custodial services. None of that is Joe Burrow’s fault though.
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Huh. Certainly about twice as much what first-year profs get in my department, but YMMV, Got Cowdog. True story: When I started my tenure-track job way back in the 2000s, the department chair told me the dept. didn’t supply printers for offices. Had to go out and buy my own to print my syllabi.
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Just quoting the article per the compensation. 130k starting out sounds pretty good! Of course I have no idea what education/experience is required to start a tenure track. But….
If I recall, The Professor tweeted that when word got out that the AD was going to cut the number in half, or something like that. I thought the professor’s tweet was petty when I saw it a few months ago, and still do. I’m not against anyone making as much money as they can, but some of my family (LSU grads) think LSU is overpaying faculty while ignoring a crumbling infrastructure. Notice the professor’s tweet was regarding routine custodial work, which probably happens every night. It seems selfish for him to complain about something subjective (Does this carpet look clean to you? It looks dirty to me.) while they do have major issues like the mentioned water damage in common buildings that affect more than just one professor’s office. BTW, $7.2 million is a drop in the bucket when you start talking about major infrastructure repair and renovation.
With regards to Joe Burrow’s question? Hoo boy. Joe’s compensated, fairly or not. How his employer spends it’s profits really isn’t any of his business.
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Universities are using a butt load of adjuncts rather than putting people on tenure track. They’re basically instructional temps. Just noting that everyone who can be called a “professor” is tenure track. Probably not even a majority of them, although I haven’t checked the numbers recently
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Is NOT tenure track
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It’s interesting that people (not you, of course) think LSU is “overpaying faculty while ignoring crumbling infrastructure.” I guess these are the same people who would complain if the university decided to step in on more of the athletic department’s largess in order to address crumbling infrastructure or perhaps continuing to pay a faculty member that whopping 130K per year (let’s not forget how that compares to salaries in the AD, please).
When faculty get bothered about things like coaches’ salaries and AD budgets, it’s almost always because there’s always plenty of money to pay for the football team but never any to address that crumbling infrastructure without, you know, cutting into those excessive faculty salaries. Bringing up my own situation again, one of the buildings in my dept’s footprint has no functioning air conditioning despite classes and labs continuing to be held in it year-round. It was over 100 degrees here this week– with classes in session. Can you imagine this being tolerated by the athletic department? Whose fault is this, you say? Well, the university just plain doesn’t have the money. Donors notoriously do not give to infrastructure repair projects (unless it’s the athletic department, of course).
It begs the question, what are we here for again, exactly? Your football entertainment is not actually the reason the university exists. Calling the faculty overpaid and demanding on a blog about college football is rich indeed.
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Most college professors make a lot less than that, and most of us don’t get in a snit about keeping our own offices clean. I don’t think it’s appropriate for a student to address a professor like that, but then again, I don’t think it’s appropriate for a professor to whine like that publicly. He kind of asked for it.
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Why is it people who want to put their hands in your pocket always describe it as “a partnership” or “an investment in (something they want that you don’t have a choice about)”? Welcome to academia, Joe. The smart people know best about what do do with all the cash you generate. If they let you keep some of it, you’d just blow on stuff you actually wanted. That’s not really fair to deprive everyone else of your cash, you selfish person!
🤔😏😀
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It’s not the professors keeping Joe from the cash he generates. It’s the NCAA. And people having their hands in your pocket and benefiting from your labor? That’s not academia so much as it is life in general, unless you’re the boss.
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I think it is the wrong question as well.
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The contribution is that without the other students and the professors to teach, there isn’t a university or alumni and we aren’t even doing this whole CFB thing to begin with right? Sheesh…..
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Maybe off the point but how many of these professors are teaching useless courses that will never help any student earn a dime toward making a living? Give thanks to the higher ed ripoff for having an office to vacuum.
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Hate to break it to you, but universities aren’t glorified trade schools.
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You are correct sir but they are a glorified money laundering scheme.
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No one is putting a gun to anyone’s head and forcing them to get a liberal arts degree. There’s a market for them. I’ve done ok with mine.
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What specific courses are useless? History? English? Foreign languages? Philosophy? Art? Do you advise your kids and grandkids to forego higher education?
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Religion certainly is. English is. History, Polisci are not worthless but way overpriced (I have a degree in History I’ll sell to you). Business and certain STEM majors are the only reason to go to a university. Go become a plumber or an electrician so you can buy coffee served by someone with a masters in Grievance Studies
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Forbes has an interesting article on this:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereknewton/2018/05/31/its-not-liberal-arts-and-literature-majors-who-are-most-underemployed/#1d5afa6a11de
But don’t let it distract y’all from your “college is worthless” narrative.
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The point of education is not to get a high-paying job.
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You must really hate elementary school teachers.
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Not the cute bubbly types 😉 But YMMV.
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It’s LSU(x) like their sorry academic mission is worth a good goddamn anyways. All those purple and urine clad, corndog smelling losers can ever hope for is football relevancy. Other than that, only the truly cruel and depraved and bored should concern themselves with that sad, little Twitter trainwreck of idiot QB vs idiot professor Bumfight.
p.s. Back in the day: La State’s candyass cadets tried to stomp our hedges and got beat with souvenir baseball bats all the way to the old train depot (TK Hardy’s for the real Dawgs on this site) til they fled their piss-soaked cowardly arses back to their little state. I don’t think we appreciate how hilarious and appropriate that is, tbh.
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