<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Dec 15, 2017, at 10:02 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px">dan - (Frankly, I’ve never understood why education and sports are so tightly linked together.)</div><span class="gmail-im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px"><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal">It's a guy thing - macho. </div></div></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why isn’t hunting part of higher education then? That’s usually considered macho. </div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px"><div><div style="line-height:normal">If those big colleges like Alabama, are getting fed $$$ for sports I'd be surprised. bill w</div></div></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I wouldn’t be surprised because federal money does go into higher education, the (federal) military at least subsidizes some of the patriot nonsense at games, and usually stadiums are built with tax money. This isn’t necessarily all at the federal level. State and local tax money subsidize stadiums and sports programs. Again, cut those off — the plumb-line libertarian position — and my guess is much would change here. (Specifically, owners and managers wouldn’t have as much to siphon off from revenues of these subsidies went away.)</div><div><br></div><div>And U of Alabama is a public university, no? </div><br><div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my latest Kindle book "Sand Trap":</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://mybook.to/SandTrap" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://mybook.to/SandTrap</a></font></div></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div></div></body></html>