Cal debt from stadium

[BigRedBuster]

I love college football and I love the renovations the program did to the stadium.

However, if I were a Cal grad or student, I would be friggen pissed off about this.

There is no way in hell I would support using academic funds or even raising tuition to pay for this.

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[beanman]

Sports is more important that academics buddy, you should know that by now.

 

[StPaulHusker]

The author called it misplaced priorities. I wouldn't go that far. I would call it misguided calculation and expectation.

 

[huKSer]

What about their portion the mega-bucks TV deal that PAC-14 got?

 

[NUance]

Perhaps they should have spent *more* on their stadium. Tuition at Cal Berkeley is only $12,834--one of the biggest bargains in higher education. They could double that and easily get as many students as they want. :lol:

 

[BOJ]

This is particularly painful with the huge hole the entire University of California system is already in.

 

[Creighton Duke]

This author is quite the jerk. Yeah, the stadium has a bunch of renovated bathrooms and concourses, but lets not forget that the stadium lies on a MASSIVE fault line. It has been said before that if an earthquake were to happen during a football game, like, 40,000 people would die (rough estimate of Cal football attendance). Much of the renovation dealt with bringing the stadium up to seismic standards i.e. earthquake-proofing the stadium. Naturally, this guy, and I'm sure countless others, just see the bottom line without regard for the rhyme and reason.