My condolences for your loss and my gratitude for your service.

I could see this as an alternative to Bing Bird's Eye photos. Yes, there are privacy issues. virtualglobetrotting.com has tracked down high profile homes and viewing them in Bing Bird's Eye is surreal.

american university athletic industrial complex

Thanks, that was awesome, but I fixed it for you. =D

Really?
http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/31/news/companies/college_football_money/index.htm

This says only four AQ Div 1A teams weren't profitable: Duke, Syracuse, Wake Forest and Connecticut. And 1/3 of the non-AQ weren't in profitable (1/3 broke even and 1/3 eked out a profit).
I can't find any data on non Div IAA (i.e. Holy Cross) but I'd assume due to a distinct lack of exposure they are *huge* sinkholes.

Athletics departments pay for their scholarships, so that scholarship money goes back to the university as tuition.

Nevermind, I ran the numbers, almost all AQ schools are profitable (which is probably what you were talking about).

Most any college team I know of (SEC ones in my experience) MAKE the universities money by the barrel full.

The top 25 revenue earners in all of CFB (Texas, Ohio State, Michigan, Auburn, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Notre Dame etc) pay their universities back in profit from merchandising rights, selling tickets, TV rights etc etc. However, the rest of CFB, (around 90 in Div IA) are a sinkhole. And that doesn't include Div IAA. Its an arms race and the haves have it, and the have nots are drowning.

We NEED to be focusing more on vocational training.

+1. If I had mod points I'd give them to you. Yes, I went to college and I'm working on a PhD, but that's a choice because I like the challenge. It seems like its become a prerequisite to life to go to college. What for? If I want to work on diesel engines why wouldn't I apprentice at a repair shop? Or go to a vocational school to learn everything I can about it? Its ridiculous that we emphasize college/university so much.

Not just defense of football, but defense of athletics. Yes, you can rail on college football/basketball, but here's the thing: most scholarship athletes are amazing students. And I'm not talking non-revenue sports, I'm talking about football and basketball. Most of the scholar-athletes I've met know they're not jumping to the NFL/NBA and are exceptionally grateful to be at whatever academic institution they're enrolled in. And, even though they have practices, work-outs, chalk talk, etc. they still do well academically. Could you imagine having a minimum 40 hours of other stuff to do as a scholar-athlete and then doing your school work?

Myron Rolle chose a Rhodes Scholar over the NFL. He's earning an MA in Medical Anthro. Zane Beadles of Utah was named an Academic All-American with a 3.535 in Mechanical Engineering.

If the authors want to talk about everyone being a Liberal Arts major (i.e. a well rounded human being) shouldn't that also include athletics?

What's the difference?

-Sir Jean-Luc Picard.

Also, I didn't know a 3 by 3 by 8 anything was considered a cube.

Also, I got news for you: electrical problems have been a bitch to deal with for literally decades.
Yeah, Lucas is called "The Prince of Darkness" for a reason. =D Not that Lucas, the other Lucas.

I think he's talking about the method (giant ass rocket with tiny capsule at the top) not the execution (Apollo 11-17).

That's why I picked psychology.